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Praxis 2 Art
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1. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Barabara Krugel
Camera Obscura
Corinthian columns
Carving Tools
2. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
Gel medium
slip
Aperture
Fire clay
3. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
Ceramic glaze
analogous Colors
Linseed oil
three point perspective
4. The principle in oil painting that suggests each layer of paint should contain more oil than the one beneath. Awareness of this concept helps ensure permanence.
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5. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Monochrome printing
Joseph Beuys
Artists associated with Pointillism
Loom
6. Statuettes were mostly used for two purposes: to incarnate a spirit of the bush - and the second was to represent a spouse from the other world 'Blolo Bla' or 'Blolo Bian'.
frisket
Depression art
Sulfur
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
7. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Mayan
Fire clay
scumbling
Crenellation
8. 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.
Dome
Printmaking Techniques
film speed
Tempera paint
9. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
Lotus postition
weft
Cast concrete - modeling
Describe the process of fresco
10. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
Yarn
Camera Obscura
vehicle
Collage
11. Robert Smithson
Egg Tempera
Rice paper
Camera Obscura
constructed the Spiral Jetty
12. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Assemblage
Degas and Cassett
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Islam art
13. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
Mississippian
Tessera
Basic Elements of Sculpture
warp
14. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Equipment used in oil painting
Artist Proof
modeling
Forms of Charcoal
15. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Depth of Field
Gouache
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Frida Kahlo
16. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
wedging the clay
Chiaroscuro
warp
Charcoal pen
17. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
three point perspective
Film Speed
Ionic columns
Environmental Art
18. The art of working raised and ornamental designs in threads of silk - cotton - gold - silver - or other material - upon any woven fabric - leather - paper - etc. - with a needle.
kinds of stones for stone carving
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Depression art
Embroidery
19. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
vehicle
Adena Indian habitats
gouache
aquatint
20. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Crenellation
Titan's key works
Rembrandt
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
21. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Palace of Versaille
Tessera
Shutter Speed
Crenellation
22. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
intaglio
Equipment used in oil painting
Depth of Field
Basic Elements of Sculpture
23. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
Rococo
Islam art
Stoneware properties
Doric columns
24. Is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions.
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25. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Paint Extender
kinds of stones for stone carving
Known Rodin prints
Rough paper
26. AP on an art product means what
Artist Proof
Armature
Designed the Barcelona chair
intermediate colors
27. Gouge and chisel
Carving Tools
Known Rodin prints
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Rembrandt
28. Most common oil in oil paints
Sfumato
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Linseed oil
Principle of Art
29. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Emphasis
Depression art
Wedging
Van Der Zee
30. Pagoda
Social Realism
Embroidery
Another term used for buddhist temple
Gouache
31. 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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32. Origin is Mayan
film speed
'fat over lean'
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Tessera
33. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
megalith
Tapestry
Film Speed
Design Principles
34. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
film speed
Emphasis
chromatic gray
Film Speed
35. 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
Shutter Speed
megalith
Rococo
Designed the Barcelona chair
36. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light. More sensitive (faster) films have higher ISO numbers and require less exposure in order to make a properly - exposed picture.
Frida Kahlo
Rabbit Skin Glue
Film Speed
Appropriation Art
37. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Grisaille
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Collage
The Renaissance
38. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Loom
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Georgian Style
The Renaissance
39. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Appropriation Art
Rococo
Thomas Gainsborough
wedging the clay
40. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
Social Realism
Assemblage
three point perspective
Color field painting
41. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
I.M. Pei
Tapestry
Wood and bronze
Dome
42. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
Emphasis
Assemblage
Sulfur
intaglio
43. A dominant idea or central theme
Motif
Forms of Charcoal
Romanesque
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
44. 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).
analogous Colors
Pastel
Kinetic art
Egg Tempera
45. 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
warp
Tenebrism
William Blake
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
46. Air - dry unfired clay
Greenware
Islam art
Batik
weft
47. Who made large portraits of friends?
Paint Extender
Facing forward and stiff
David Hockney
Isocephaly
48. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Pumice
Greenware
Facing forward and stiff
Stoneware
49. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
African Benin Sculputure
Isocephaly
Acrylic paint
film speed
50. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
The post - and - lintel system
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Enameling
Degas and Cassett
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