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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
Describe the process of fresco
Depression art
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Tempera paint
2. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Gouache
Known Rodin prints
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
3. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Joseph Beuys
Wood and bronze
Degas and Cassett
Basic Elements of Sculpture
4. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
intermediate colors
Scoring
Environmental Art
Principle of Art
5. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
Pastel
Gothic Cathedrals
kinds of stones for stone carving
Grisaille
6. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Grisaille
Hardbrick
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Rembrandt
7. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Known Rodin prints
Tempera paint
Environmental Art
Ionic columns
8. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
slip
Depth of Field
Assemblage
Neoclassical
9. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
Shade
Adena Indian habitats
vehicle
Tempera paint
10. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Mississippian
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Baroque painting
value
11. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Camera Obscura
Charcoal pen
Rembrandt
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
12. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Enameling
Photogravure
Linseed oil
scumbling
13. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Designed the Barcelona chair
Albert Durer
Parchment
Facing forward and stiff
14. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
Mississippian
Parchment
Safety glasses
scumbling
15. 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).
Egg Tempera
Paint Extender
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Describe the process of fresco
16. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Barabara Krugel
Equipment used in oil painting
Tenebrism
Depression art
17. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Isocephaly
Romanesque Cathedrals
Women artist of the 19th century
the golden section (architecture)
18. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Esquisse
Joseph Beuys
Chiaroscuro
Batik
19. A form of painting in which tiny dots of primary - colors are used to generate secondary colors. It is very similar to Divisionism - except that where Divisionism is concerned with color theory - Pointillism is more focused on the specific style of b
Principle of Art
binder
Pointillism
Linear perspective
20. Continuous frieze
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Greenware
Column of Trajan
21. Painter and printmaker of Romantism.Held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity - and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. Works: The Song of Los - The Lovers Whirlwind - Ancient of Days
Romanesque Cathedrals
Rabbit Skin Glue
William Blake
A black line
22. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
frisket
Depression era Artists
Artists associated with Pointillism
Abstract Expressionist Artists
23. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Degas and Cassett
kinds of stones for stone carving
Japanese art and buildings
scumbling
24. 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
Rodin
Lotus postition
Encaustic
Design Elements
25. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Frida Kahlo
Depth of Field
Wood and bronze
Meyer Schapiro
26. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Rice paper
Rococo
Social Realism
binder
27. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Film Speed
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Printmaking Techniques
intermediate colors
28. 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
Meyer Schapiro
Romanesque Cathedrals
Jewelry tools
Esquisse
29. 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
Pastel
Sulfur
Baroque painting
Equipment used in oil painting
30. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
Stoneware properties
Mayan
Pastel
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
31. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Depression era Artists
Wedging
Islam art
Bas
32. 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
Depression art
I.M. Pei
Trompe - l'oil
33. 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.
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
scumbling
kinds of stones for stone carving
Greenware
34. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Rotunda
Depression era Artists
Thomas Gainsborough
Fire clay
35. 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
modeling
Wood and bronze
Van Der Zee
Basquiat
36. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Sfumato
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Artists associated with Pointillism
Principle of Art
37. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Julio Gonzalez
Japanese art and buildings
scumbling
African masks
38. Origin is Mayan
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Cement
Artist Proof
39. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Safety glasses
Adena Indian habitats
Croquis
Appropriation Art
40. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
Batik
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
film speed
Grisaille
41. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?
Aperture
Cement
Sulfur
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
42. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
I.M. Pei
Meyer Schapiro
Hagia Sophia
Romantic Era
43. Symmetrical balance
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44. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Color field painting
Scoring
Collage
45. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
Paint Extender
Pumice
Tapestry
intaglio
46. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Pop artists
Equipment used in oil painting
Cast concrete - modeling
Hardbrick
47. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Japanese art and buildings
Acrylic paint
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Gothic Cathedrals
48. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Tempera paint
Tapestry
Encaustic
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
49. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
warp
Social Murals
Photorealism
rhythm
50. To make a quick sketch
Julio Gonzalez
Camera Obscura
Degas and Cassett
Croquis