Test your basic knowledge |

Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)






2. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.






3. Hard - dense firebrick generally used only in high - stress areas of kiln (floor - burner ports - flues - bagwall) and for corrosive firing processes (salt - soda - wood).






4. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?






5. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.






6. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers






7. Harlem Renaissance artist known for etchings - was a German painter - printmaker - and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition in the first half of the 20th century. Her empathy for the less fortunate






8. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?






9. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space






10. Mexican murals painted in what theme?






11. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.






12. 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






13. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam






14. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid






15. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space






16. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.






17. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross






18. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.






19. Robert Smithson






20. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.






21. Most common oil in oil paints






22. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite






23. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.






24. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.






25. What color do two secondary colors make?






26. Air - dry unfired clay






27. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design






28. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof






29. Pagoda






30. A German performance artist - sculptor - installation artist - graphic artist - art theorist and pedagogue of art. Artwork: Performance : How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare






31. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.






32. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint






33. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware






34. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.






35. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?






36. 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.






37. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?






38. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome






39. Rene Magritte






40. What is another work for low relief?






41. Possin was a French painter in the classical style.Themes of tragedy and death are prevalent in Poussin's work.[13] Et in Arcadia ego - a subject he painted twice (second version is seen at right) - exemplifies his cerebral approach. In this composit

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


42. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended






43. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)






44. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric






45. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.






46. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?






47. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.






48. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?






49. A ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both. Ancient Ea ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the su






50. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness