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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. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Thomas Gainsborough
Collage
Parchment
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
2. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
gouache
analogous Colors
Romantic Era
Scoring
3. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Turpentine
Enameling
gesso
Corinthian columns
4. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Monochrome printing
Kinetic art
Chiaroscuro
Basic Elements of Sculpture
5. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Tessera
stain glass in a cathedral
Baroque painting
Dagyuerrotype
6. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Mayan
gesso
William Blake
Japanese art and buildings
7. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
kinds of stones for stone carving
Ionic columns
Croquis
Depth of Field
8. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Dome
Known Rodin prints
slip
Color field painting
9. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
Color field painting artists
Mayan
Lotus postition
Principle of Art
10. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
Abstract Expressionist Artists
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Brushed used in oil painting
warp
11. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Column of Trajan
Artist Proof
Basquiat
Describe the process of fresco
12. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
Lotus postition
Pastel
best resolution in a digital photo?
Titan's key works
13. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Cement
Social Murals
Sulfur
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
14. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Social Realism
Palace of Versaille
Monochrome printing
Tapestry
15. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Joseph Beuys
Artists associated with Pointillism
Used to protect pastel artwork
Dagyuerrotype
16. 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).
Photorealism
The Renaissance
Brushed used in oil painting
Egg Tempera
17. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
Kinetic art
Romantic Era
Rotunda
analogous Colors
18. Gray made by mixing complements
chromatic gray
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
The post - and - lintel system
Grisaille
19. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
modeling
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Value
20. 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
Equipment used in oil painting
Gouache
Artist Proof
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
21. The central area of a church
Romanesque
megalith
aquatint
nave
22. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?
Sulfur
Gothic Cathedrals
Chiaroscuro
Islam art
23. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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24. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Scoring
Paint Extender
Gel medium
Enameling
25. 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.
Photorealism
CMYK
Embroidery
Chiaroscuro
26. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
The post - and - lintel system
Safety glasses
kinds of stones for stone carving
Wedging
27. Pagoda
Another term used for buddhist temple
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Rough paper
28. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
intermediate colors
the golden section (architecture)
Rodin
value
29. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Designed the Barcelona chair
Fire clay
Titan's key works
Charcoal pen
30. A dominant idea or central theme
A black line
Motif
Turpentine
Tempera paint
31. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
The post - and - lintel system
Assemblage
Tessera
Yarn
32. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Gel medium
Georgian Style
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Fire clay
33. Rene Magritte
film speed
Meyer Schapiro
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Barabara Krugel
34. What goes horizontal across a loom?
African Benin Sculputure
balance
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Yarn
35. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Another term used for buddhist temple
Thomas Gainsborough
Artists associated with Pointillism
Cement
36. ...
Used to protect pastel artwork
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Pastel
Water
37. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Rice paper
Pointillism
best resolution in a digital photo?
Linear perspective
38. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Tessera
Japanese art and buildings
Romantic Era
Known Rodin prints
39. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Pop artists
Cement
Encaustic
Paint Extender
40. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Safety glasses
intaglio
Elements of Art
Film Speed
41. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Rough paper
Color field painting artists
value
best resolution in a digital photo?
42. 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
CMYK
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Safety glasses
43. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
Hagia Sophia
Shutter Speed
film speed
Mayan
44. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Brown
Acrylic paint
Japanese art and buildings
Albert Durer
45. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Depth of Field
Cast concrete - modeling
Pop artists
frisket
46. 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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47. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Julio Gonzalez
Armature
intermediate colors
Crenellation
48. Made by Gustav Eiffel - Eiffel - marks the centennial celebration of the French Revolution. Liberty - iconic symbol of freedom and of the United States. French gave the US - statue of liberty
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Egg Tempera
Social Realism
Column of Trajan
49. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Neoclassical
Rembrandt
Color field painting
Romanesque Cathedrals
50. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Loom
Acrylic paint
Shutter Speed
Julio Gonzalez