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Praxis 2 Art
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1. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Environmental Art
gesso
Crenellation
Describe the process of fresco
2. 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.
Tempera paint
Titan's key works
Emphasis
Designed the Barcelona chair
3. Is a circle - shaped opening in a lens (a hole - really) through which light passes to strike the film. The size of the aperture is expressed as an f - number - like f/8 or f/11.
Aperture
intermediate colors
frisket
Pointillism
4. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Adena Indian habitats
I.M. Pei
Japanese art and buildings
Stoneware properties
5. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
three point perspective
Gel medium
stain glass in a cathedral
Frottage
6. rayons resistant to what?
chromatic gray
'fat over lean'
Water
Ionic columns
7. 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.
Batik
Palace of Versaille
Embroidery
scumbling
8. 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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9. Known for stone. The term was invented by 19th century art historians - especially for Romanesque architecture - which retained many basic features of Roman architectural style - most notably round - headed arches - but also barrel vaults - apses - a
Thomas Gainsborough
Romanesque
Crenellation
Brushed used in oil painting
10. Used in water printing
Acrylic paint
three point perspective
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Trompe - l'oil
11. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Linseed oil
Safety glasses
Brushed used in oil painting
12. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Julio Gonzalez
Photogravure
Barabara Krugel
CMYK
13. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Yarn
Environmental Art
Ionic columns
African Benin Sculputure
14. A dominant idea or central theme
Batik
Monochrome printing
Film Speed
Motif
15. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
Environmental Art
I.M. Pei
Yarn
Rice paper
16. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Bas
Charcoal pen
Isocephaly
Crenellation
17. 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.
Greenware
Esquisse
CMYK
Titan's key works
18. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Crenellation
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Wedging
Dry Point
19. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
nave
Collage
20. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Batik
Mississippian
Artists associated with Pointillism
aquatint
21. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?
best resolution in a digital photo?
Monochrome printing
Sulfur
scumbling
22. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
African masks
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Mississippian
Georgian Style
23. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Rembrandt
Dagyuerrotype
Used to protect pastel artwork
Ceramic - Sgraffito
24. AP on an art product means what
Artist Proof
Shade
Batik
Impasto
25. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
analogous Colors
Barabara Krugel
Principle of Art
Michelangelo
26. 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
Basquiat
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Carving Tools
Pumice
27. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Hagia Sophia
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Rough paper
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
28. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
Brushed used in oil painting
gesso
Value
Van Der Zee
29. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Cement
Used to protect pastel artwork
Pastel
Ionic columns
30. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Rabbit Skin Glue
Known Rodin prints
constructed the Spiral Jetty
31. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Known Rodin prints
Isocephaly
'fat over lean'
Wood and bronze
32. Who said ' less is more'?
Safety glasses
Ionic columns
Emphasis
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
33. Who made large portraits of friends?
stain glass in a cathedral
Wedging
David Hockney
constructed the Spiral Jetty
34. 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
Gothic Cathedrals
Frida Kahlo
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Dome
35. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
Japanese art and buildings
frisket
Acrylic paint
gouache
36. 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
kinds of stones for stone carving
Safety glasses
Rodin
Thomas Gainsborough
37. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
modeling
weft
Equipment used in oil painting
Depth of Field
38. 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.
Rotunda
analogous Colors
Film Speed
Armature
39. Example of baroque architecture
Pastel
nave
A black line
Palace of Versaille
40. 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
Islam art
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Ionic columns
41. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Hagia Sophia
Cement
Principle of Art
Encaustic
42. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Depression art
Rice paper
Collage
Loom
43. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Printmaking Techniques
Artist Proof
Color field painting
Armature
44. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Elements of Art
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Pop artists
balance
45. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
wedging the clay
Romantic Era
African Benin Sculputure
Carving Tools
46. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
Isocephaly
David Hockney
Emphasis
Social Realism
47. 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.
intermediate colors
Linear perspective
Abstract Expressionist Artists
balance
48. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Palace of Versaille
Islam art
Baroque painting
Dome
49. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Known Rodin prints
Tessera
Shade
Van Der Zee
50. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Design Elements
Tint
Rococo
Esquisse