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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
value
modeling
Film Speed
Artists associated with Pointillism
2. To make a quick sketch
Croquis
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Acrylic paint
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
3. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Titan's key works
Batik
Tint
Bas
4. 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
Jewelry tools
Dry Point
Islam art
5. 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
Wood and bronze
wedging the clay
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
William Blake
6. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
three point perspective
Scoring
Rough paper
Principle of Art
7. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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8. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Adena Indian habitats
Shade
Kinetic art
Depression art
9. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Rice paper
Water
Wood and bronze
Embroidery
10. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
Corinthian columns
film speed
Sulfur
Albert Durer
11. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Column of Trajan
Assemblage
Film Speed
Appropriation Art
12. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Collage
Brushed used in oil painting
Julio Gonzalez
Tempera paint
13. 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
'fat over lean'
Monochrome printing
Encaustic
14. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
CMYK
Cast concrete - modeling
Equipment used in oil painting
Pumice
15. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Hardbrick
Safety glasses
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Georgian Style
16. 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
Rotunda
warp
Baroque painting
The post - and - lintel system
17. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
The post - and - lintel system
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
stain glass in a cathedral
18. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
wedging the clay
Brown
Rabbit Skin Glue
Collage
19. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Van Der Zee
Parchment
Hagia Sophia
Joseph Beuys
20. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Color field painting artists
megalith
Dagyuerrotype
Principle of Art
21. 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'.
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
wedging the clay
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Croquis
22. Most common oil in oil paints
Wedging
Linseed oil
aquatint
Romanesque
23. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Pumice
The Renaissance
Palace of Versaille
24. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
weft
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Principle of Art
Aperture
25. Hard - dense firebrick generally used only in high - stress areas of kiln (floor - burner ports - flues - bagwall) and for corrosive firing processes (salt - soda - wood).
Describe the process of fresco
Shade
Hardbrick
Mississippian
26. 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
Acrylic paint
Tenebrism
Gouache
Depression era Artists
27. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Column of Trajan
intermediate colors
Depression art
Appropriation Art
28. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
I.M. Pei
Assemblage
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Parchment
29. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Used to protect pastel artwork
Design Principles
Design Elements
Chiaroscuro
30. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Camera Obscura
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Japanese art and buildings
31. 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
Frida Kahlo
Value
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Basquiat
32. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Degas and Cassett
intaglio
Carving Tools
best resolution in a digital photo?
33. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Color field painting artists
Printmaking Techniques
Baroque painting
Rice paper
34. Gray made by mixing complements
chromatic gray
Scoring
Describe the process of fresco
Frida Kahlo
35. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
Crenellation
Parchment
Paint Extender
Kinetic art
36. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
gouache
Film Speed
Depression era Artists
Facing forward and stiff
37. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Meyer Schapiro
Gel medium
value
Japanese art and buildings
38. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
Tapestry
kinds of stones for stone carving
Linseed oil
Chiaroscuro
39. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
intaglio
Wedging
The Renaissance
Gothic Cathedrals
40. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Basquiat
Rough paper
Facing forward and stiff
Romantic Era
41. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
the golden section (architecture)
slip
stain glass in a cathedral
The post - and - lintel system
42. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
the golden section (architecture)
Linear perspective
Crenellation
Cast concrete - modeling
43. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Social Realism
Depression art
Frottage
film speed
44. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
Facing forward and stiff
kinds of stones for stone carving
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
frisket
45. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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46. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Trompe - l'oil
Hagia Sophia
value
Yarn
47. Gouge and chisel
Carving Tools
Tenebrism
Scoring
Mayan
48. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Value
Appropriation Art
Gel medium
Women artist of the 19th century
49. ...
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Impasto
Albert Durer
Parchment
50. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Social Murals
Bas
Basquiat
Rembrandt