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Praxis 2 Art
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1. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
vehicle
Trompe - l'oil
Linear perspective
Barabara Krugel
2. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
Emphasis
Van Der Zee
Monochrome printing
rhythm
3. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
Thomas Gainsborough
intaglio
Sfumato
Social Realism
4. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
Islam art
Depth of Field
Frottage
Color field painting artists
5. Pagoda
Another term used for buddhist temple
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Forms of Charcoal
Barabara Krugel
6. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Wood and bronze
Van Der Zee
Grisaille
Basic Elements of Sculpture
7. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Grisaille
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Depression art
8. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Hagia Sophia
kinds of stones for stone carving
Monochrome printing
Assemblage
9. Continuous frieze
Carving Tools
Stoneware
Column of Trajan
gouache
10. 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.
analogous Colors
Barabara Krugel
Embroidery
Rotunda
11. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
Mississippian
modeling
Water
wedging the clay
12. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
analogous Colors
Mayan
wedging the clay
Palace of Versaille
13. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
African Benin Sculputure
The Renaissance
Van Der Zee
Elements of Art
14. ...
weft
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Mayan
Appropriation Art
15. 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).
Depression era Artists
Hardbrick
Shutter Speed
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
16. 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
David Hockney
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Brown
Barabara Krugel
17. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Linseed oil
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Rough paper
African Benin Sculputure
18. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Rembrandt
Brown
Chiaroscuro
Emphasis
19. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
warp
Charcoal pen
Dry Point
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
20. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
slip
Color field painting artists
Romantic Era
Safety glasses
21. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Color field painting
Degas and Cassett
Albert Durer
22. rayons resistant to what?
scumbling
Water
Batik
Greenware
23. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
modeling
William Blake
Brushed used in oil painting
Lotus postition
24. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Wedging
Romanesque Cathedrals
Equipment used in oil painting
Thomas Gainsborough
25. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
gouache
Barabara Krugel
Armature
Rough paper
26. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Enameling
slip
Ceramic glaze
Impasto
27. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Baroque painting
Printmaking Techniques
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Pointillism
28. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Romantic Era
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Depression art
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
29. A dominant idea or central theme
Motif
Fire clay
Georgian Style
Column of Trajan
30. The genre of painting based on using the camera and photographs to gather information and then from this information - creating a painting that appears to be very realistic like a photograph.
intaglio
Armature
stain glass in a cathedral
Photorealism
31. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Loom
Thomas Gainsborough
Pointillism
32. Fix
Rough paper
Used to protect pastel artwork
Shutter Speed
Dry Point
33. 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.
Ceramic glaze
The post - and - lintel system
Wood and bronze
Film Speed
34. 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
binder
Pastel
Greenware
Baroque painting
35. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Environmental Art
Crenellation
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
36. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
Paint Extender
Sfumato
Facing forward and stiff
The Renaissance
37. A form of painting in which tiny dots of primary - colors are used to generate secondary colors. It is very similar to Divisionism - except that where Divisionism is concerned with color theory - Pointillism is more focused on the specific style of b
Known Rodin prints
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Aperture
Pointillism
38. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
best resolution in a digital photo?
Column of Trajan
gouache
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
39. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
frisket
Pop artists
Batik
weft
40. 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.
Dome
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Islam art
Another term used for buddhist temple
41. Made out of Metal
African Benin Sculputure
Jewelry tools
Pumice
Carving Tools
42. Origin is Mayan
Meyer Schapiro
Hagia Sophia
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Lotus postition
43. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
Rough paper
Encaustic
Rembrandt
intermediate colors
44. What color do two secondary colors make?
Brown
Monochrome printing
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Rough paper
45. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Albert Durer
Paint Extender
Basic Elements of Sculpture
value
46. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Pointillism
Social Realism
Rembrandt
Depression era Artists
47. 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
Rabbit Skin Glue
Tenebrism
Loom
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
48. 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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49. 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.
balance
Romanesque Cathedrals
Cement
Printmaking Techniques
50. Most common oil in oil paints
analogous Colors
dry - brushing
Baroque painting
Linseed oil
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