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Praxis 2 Art
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1. A painting medium in which pigment is mixed with water - soluble glutinous materials such as size or egg yolk. Also called poster color - poster paint.
binder
Stoneware properties
Tempera paint
Depth of Field
2. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
Wedging
frisket
I.M. Pei
gouache
3. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Frida Kahlo
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Romantic Era
analogous Colors
4. 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.
Elements of Art
Rotunda
Photorealism
Tapestry
5. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Tempera paint
Islam art
Printmaking Techniques
Egg Tempera
6. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
modeling
gouache
Column of Trajan
Doric columns
7. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
Appropriation Art
chromatic gray
Embroidery
binder
8. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Dome
Hardbrick
Corinthian columns
Social Murals
9. 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
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10. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Rabbit Skin Glue
Stoneware properties
The post - and - lintel system
11. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Describe the process of fresco
Cement
Gel medium
Shade
12. Used in water printing
Acrylic paint
Color field painting
Degas and Cassett
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
13. A school - style - or method of painting - adopted chiefly by 17th - century Spanish and Neapolitan painters - esp Caravaggio - characterized by large areas of dark colours - usually relieved with a shaft of ligh
Gouache
Tenebrism
aquatint
Film Speed
14. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Linear perspective
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Appropriation Art
aquatint
15. Used her life experiences into her artwork - including her marriage - her miscarriages - and her numerous operations - works often are characterized by their stark portrayals of pain - combined elements of the classic religious Mexican tradition with
Rotunda
Cement
Rice paper
Frida Kahlo
16. Neo expressionist artist - Jean - Michel Basquiat was an American painter who rose to fame in the 1980s - and was the first African - American artist to gain international acclaim. His emotionally - charged paintings gave rise to graffiti art and the
balance
film speed
Depth of Field
Basquiat
17. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
binder
Cast concrete - modeling
Environmental Art
Pop artists
18. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
Doric columns
The Renaissance
Pumice
scumbling
19. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Sfumato
Armature
20. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
wedging the clay
Corinthian columns
21. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
stain glass in a cathedral
Crenellation
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Monochrome printing
22. Symmetrical balance
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23. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Shade
Carving Tools
Dry Point
Van Der Zee
24. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
Kinetic art
Carving Tools
Turpentine
Gel medium
25. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Paint Extender
Forms of Charcoal
Equipment used in oil painting
Tint
26. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Safety glasses
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Value
27. 3X 5300 pixels
David Hockney
best resolution in a digital photo?
nave
Tapestry
28. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Color field painting
Loom
Stoneware properties
29. 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
wedging the clay
weft
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
value
30. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Chiaroscuro
Wedging
Water
nave
31. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
I.M. Pei
Depth of Field
Bas
32. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
analogous Colors
Meyer Schapiro
value
Lotus postition
33. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Joseph Beuys
Baroque painting
Enameling
Column of Trajan
34. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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35. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
I.M. Pei
Barabara Krugel
Value
Forms of Charcoal
36. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Rodin
Designed the Barcelona chair
Croquis
Forms of Charcoal
37. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
Brown
Lotus postition
Michelangelo
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
38. 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.
Romanesque
Batik
Mississippian
scumbling
39. Most common oil in oil paints
Color field painting
Equipment used in oil painting
Linear perspective
Linseed oil
40. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Paint Extender
Lotus postition
Elements of Art
Jewelry tools
41. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Ceramic glaze
binder
Batik
42. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Hagia Sophia
Facing forward and stiff
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Assemblage
43. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
A black line
Joseph Beuys
Appropriation Art
Principle of Art
44. 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
Tessera
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Romanesque Cathedrals
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
45. The laying of paint thickly
Barabara Krugel
Depth of Field
Hardbrick
Impasto
46. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
Mississippian
warp
frisket
Linear perspective
47. Came in response to Renaissance Art - ominous - otherworldly - and dark in subject. _________ art was heavily influenced by the Counter - reformation and thus more interested in dramatic scenes of saints and history paintings.Art from the Baroque per
kinds of stones for stone carving
Albert Durer
Baroque painting
Charcoal pen
48. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Ceramic glaze
Joseph Beuys
the golden section (architecture)
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
49. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
Collage
I.M. Pei
Romanesque
Neoclassical
50. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Cement
three point perspective
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
wedging the clay
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