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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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1. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Wedging
Elements of Art
best resolution in a digital photo?
Scoring
2. 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
Tenebrism
Social Realism
weft
Known Rodin prints
3. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
slip
Batik
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Tapestry
4. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Assemblage
Camera Obscura
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Parchment
5. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Ionic columns
Adena Indian habitats
Trompe - l'oil
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
6. To make a quick sketch
Esquisse
Jewelry tools
Croquis
Linear perspective
7. 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.
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Embroidery
Tempera paint
Tapestry
8. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
David Hockney
aquatint
Japanese art and buildings
Monochrome printing
9. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
The post - and - lintel system
Mayan
Designed the Barcelona chair
Women artist of the 19th century
10. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Jewelry tools
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Film Speed
warp
11. 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
Design Principles
Dome
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Hardbrick
12. An art and design principle concerned with the arrangement of one or more elements in a work of art so that they appear symmetrical (even) or asymmetrical (uneven) in design and proportion.
Romanesque Cathedrals
balance
The Renaissance
Japanese art and buildings
13. 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
Pointillism
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Design Principles
the golden section (architecture)
14. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
analogous Colors
Design Elements
Loom
Brown
15. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
A black line
Social Realism
Gouache
Wedging
16. Fix
Motif
Used to protect pastel artwork
Crenellation
Gel medium
17. Huge stones
megalith
chromatic gray
Photogravure
Women artist of the 19th century
18. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Impasto
Georgian Style
balance
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
19. Used in water printing
Acrylic paint
rhythm
weft
Mayan
20. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Tessera
stain glass in a cathedral
Linear perspective
Impasto
21. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
kinds of stones for stone carving
Mayan
Principle of Art
The post - and - lintel system
22. Who made large portraits of friends?
Used to protect pastel artwork
David Hockney
Describe the process of fresco
Rough paper
23. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
Hagia Sophia
Jewelry tools
nave
Romanesque
24. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Van Der Zee
Batik
Degas and Cassett
warp
25. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
wedging the clay
Pointillism
Design Elements
Tint
26. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
nave
Wood and bronze
scumbling
27. 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
Romantic Era
Artists associated with Pointillism
CMYK
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
28. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Aperture
Equipment used in oil painting
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Sulfur
29. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
intermediate colors
Rembrandt
Isocephaly
Value
30. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Grisaille
Printmaking Techniques
Parchment
Tapestry
31. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Paint Extender
Ceramic glaze
Rococo
Kinetic art
32. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
gesso
Collage
Trompe - l'oil
33. Focused on the depiction of patterns and Arabic calligraphy - rather than on figures - because it is feared by many Muslims that the depiction of the human form is idolatry and thereby a sin against God - forbidden in the Qur'an.
warp
modeling
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Islam art
34. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Sfumato
Meyer Schapiro
Fire clay
Sulfur
35. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Color field painting
Rotunda
The Renaissance
Joseph Beuys
36. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
aquatint
Mayan
Ionic columns
Esquisse
37. AP on an art product means what
Tessera
Brushed used in oil painting
Artist Proof
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
38. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Mississippian
Design Principles
Croquis
Rodin
39. Pagoda
Rotunda
intermediate colors
Dagyuerrotype
Another term used for buddhist temple
40. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
Turpentine
Carving Tools
Romanesque
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
41. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
The Renaissance
Corinthian columns
Monochrome printing
Dry Point
42. 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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43. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
Dry Point
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
kinds of stones for stone carving
Croquis
44. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Ceramic - Sgraffito
frisket
Michelangelo
45. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Artists associated with Pointillism
Palace of Versaille
Frottage
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
46. Robert Smithson
Photogravure
Film Speed
Baroque painting
constructed the Spiral Jetty
47. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Artist Proof
Greenware
Gothic Cathedrals
Yarn
48. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Julio Gonzalez
Trompe - l'oil
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Greenware
49. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Degas and Cassett
Albert Durer
Designed the Barcelona chair
William Blake
50. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
rhythm
William Blake
Tapestry
Shade