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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
Depression era Artists
Tenebrism
Loom
Islam art
2. 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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3. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Pumice
Esquisse
Tenebrism
Acrylic paint
4. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Brown
Frottage
Yarn
rhythm
5. 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.
Another term used for buddhist temple
balance
value
Van Der Zee
6. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Depression art
Croquis
Another term used for buddhist temple
Batik
7. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Another term used for buddhist temple
Artist Proof
Van Der Zee
Cement
8. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Brushed used in oil painting
Islam art
chromatic gray
Mayan
9. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Scoring
Gel medium
Brown
10. Used in water printing
Acrylic paint
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
scumbling
Stoneware properties
11. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
analogous Colors
Wedging
Women artist of the 19th century
Hagia Sophia
12. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Assemblage
Depth of Field
Artist Proof
Sfumato
13. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Chiaroscuro
Fire clay
Color field painting
Meyer Schapiro
14. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Acrylic paint
Brushed used in oil painting
Rabbit Skin Glue
15. To mount a white and black photo - use...
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Sulfur
chromatic gray
Rice paper
16. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
Yarn
Pastel
Shade
aquatint
17. A German performance artist - sculptor - installation artist - graphic artist - art theorist and pedagogue of art. Artwork: Performance : How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare
Joseph Beuys
Brushed used in oil painting
Enameling
Abstract Expressionist Artists
18. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Tapestry
the golden section (architecture)
Encaustic
Mayan
19. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
scumbling
Photogravure
Armature
Rough paper
20. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Joseph Beuys
Depth of Field
Doric columns
stain glass in a cathedral
21. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
Turpentine
Romanesque Cathedrals
Croquis
Jewelry tools
22. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Safety glasses
Collage
African masks
Bas
23. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Mayan
value
Doric columns
Design Elements
24. The central area of a church
binder
Tempera paint
nave
Rodin
25. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
warp
Trompe - l'oil
Dome
Describe the process of fresco
26. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Social Realism
Design Elements
CMYK
gouache
27. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
Appropriation Art
gouache
Wedging
Color field painting artists
28. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Romanesque Cathedrals
gesso
Shutter Speed
film speed
29. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Design Elements
Basquiat
Enameling
Lotus postition
30. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Safety glasses
African masks
modeling
Kinetic art
31. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Stoneware properties
Batik
megalith
Mayan
32. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Ionic columns
Adena Indian habitats
Impasto
Value
33. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Paint Extender
William Blake
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Printmaking Techniques
34. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
Scoring
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Wood and bronze
Rococo
35. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
I.M. Pei
Motif
binder
Paint Extender
36. What color do two secondary colors make?
Brown
Pumice
vehicle
Tapestry
37. To make a quick sketch
Croquis
The Renaissance
Environmental Art
Gouache
38. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Tenebrism
Design Principles
Appropriation Art
Artists associated with Pointillism
39. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Ionic columns
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Women artist of the 19th century
40. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
Design Principles
Ceramic - Sgraffito
CMYK
Trompe - l'oil
41. A dominant idea or central theme
Parchment
scumbling
Motif
Ionic columns
42. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
warp
binder
Linear perspective
Stoneware properties
43. 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).
David Hockney
Printmaking Techniques
Tint
Egg Tempera
44. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
aquatint
Pastel
Equipment used in oil painting
gouache
45. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Titan's key works
Hagia Sophia
Women artist of the 19th century
46. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Fire clay
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Crenellation
Cast concrete - modeling
47. Gray made by mixing complements
chromatic gray
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Motif
gesso
48. Made out of Metal
African Benin Sculputure
Stepped Pyramid Temples
balance
film speed
49. 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
Romanesque Cathedrals
Croquis
Neoclassical
Tapestry
50. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
African masks
Jewelry tools
slip
Linseed oil