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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Pop artists
warp
Depression art
I.M. Pei
2. Is a circle - shaped opening in a lens (a hole - really) through which light passes to strike the film. The size of the aperture is expressed as an f - number - like f/8 or f/11.
Van Der Zee
Romantic Era
frisket
Aperture
3. Made by Gustav Eiffel - Eiffel - marks the centennial celebration of the French Revolution. Liberty - iconic symbol of freedom and of the United States. French gave the US - statue of liberty
Appropriation Art
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Hardbrick
Forms of Charcoal
4. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Linseed oil
Used to protect pastel artwork
Parchment
three point perspective
5. Sculptor. Major Work: The Thinker - a naturalist - less concerned with monumental expression than with character and emotion. Departing with centuries of tradition - he turned away from the idealism of the Greeks - and the decorative beauty of the Ba
weft
Encaustic
Rodin
Albert Durer
6. Robert Smithson
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Sulfur
Tessera
Chiaroscuro
7. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Depth of Field
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Yarn
Water
8. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Brushed used in oil painting
Wedging
warp
Van Der Zee
9. Known by its massive quality - its thick walls - round arches - sturdy piers - groin vaults - large towers and decorative arcading. Each building has clearly defined forms and they are frequently of very regular - symmetrical plan so that the overall
Fire clay
Romanesque Cathedrals
Barabara Krugel
wedging the clay
10. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Gothic Cathedrals
Monochrome printing
Esquisse
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
11. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Social Murals
Mayan
Grisaille
Brushed used in oil painting
12. The second oldest medium after encaustic. It was used by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks and perfected by the icon painters during the last 100 years of the old Byzantine Empire (400 AD-1202 AD).
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Corinthian columns
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Egg Tempera
13. Used in water printing
Acrylic paint
Elements of Art
Isocephaly
kinds of stones for stone carving
14. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
William Blake
Chiaroscuro
Cast concrete - modeling
Frottage
15. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Cement
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Bas
Isocephaly
16. His versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man
Safety glasses
Egg Tempera
Michelangelo
I.M. Pei
17. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Design Elements
Greenware
Hagia Sophia
Batik
18. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Linseed oil
Frottage
Romantic Era
Rotunda
19. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Croquis
Isocephaly
Romanesque Cathedrals
Chiaroscuro
20. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
Encaustic
Linseed oil
aquatint
intaglio
21. Came in response to the darkness and heaviness of Baroque art - but did continue many of the ideals specified during the 17th century. Rococo related much more to decorative shapes as well as the natural and organic. Swirling shapes and asymmetrical
Rococo
Value
Artist Proof
Romantic Era
22. In art - the perception of depth in nature as enhanced by haze in the atmosphere; how the appearance of objects is altered over distance by the effects of the air between the viewer and the object
African Benin Sculputure
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
wedging the clay
Romantic Era
23. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Assemblage
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Charcoal pen
Doric columns
24. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Chiaroscuro
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Mississippian
25. What is another work for low relief?
rhythm
Bas
Water
Stoneware
26. ...
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Embroidery
intermediate colors
Tint
27. Gouge and chisel
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
film speed
Carving Tools
Degas and Cassett
28. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Frida Kahlo
Social Murals
Film Speed
Adena Indian habitats
29. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
African Benin Sculputure
The Renaissance
Bas
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
30. 3X 5300 pixels
best resolution in a digital photo?
Water
Barabara Krugel
Tapestry
31. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Dome
Fire clay
Wedging
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
32. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
aquatint
Rotunda
megalith
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
33. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
Encaustic
Loom
Used to protect pastel artwork
vehicle
34. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
dry - brushing
Dagyuerrotype
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
intaglio
35. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
I.M. Pei
Scoring
Tapestry
Rabbit Skin Glue
36. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
Cast concrete - modeling
Tapestry
scumbling
weft
37. The central area of a church
Designed the Barcelona chair
Neoclassical
nave
Wedging
38. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
The Renaissance
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Paint Extender
Carving Tools
39. Fix
Photorealism
Used to protect pastel artwork
Gel medium
Cement
40. The genre of painting based on using the camera and photographs to gather information and then from this information - creating a painting that appears to be very realistic like a photograph.
Gel medium
Photorealism
Column of Trajan
CMYK
41. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Fire clay
Trompe - l'oil
Rabbit Skin Glue
Sulfur
42. Made out of Metal
Parchment
African Benin Sculputure
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
African masks
43. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
Social Murals
kinds of stones for stone carving
Known Rodin prints
gouache
44. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Georgian Style
Equipment used in oil painting
45. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Environmental Art
Egg Tempera
megalith
Barabara Krugel
46. Cyan - Magenta - Yellow - Key (blacK). This ystem is used for printing. For mixing of pigments - it is better to use the secondary colours - since they mix subtractively instead of additively.
CMYK
Thomas Gainsborough
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Turpentine
47. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
Michelangelo
The post - and - lintel system
Women artist of the 19th century
Impasto
48. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
Isocephaly
chromatic gray
binder
Jewelry tools
49. In oil painting - the technique of brushing one layer of paint on top of another in a way that reveals some of the under color.
slip
Batik
scumbling
Pastel
50. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Neoclassical
Monochrome printing
Depth of Field
Gothic Cathedrals