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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. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Lotus postition
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Designed the Barcelona chair
2. Robert Smithson
aquatint
Baroque painting
Islam art
constructed the Spiral Jetty
3. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
Turpentine
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
warp
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
4. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
Isocephaly
Yarn
intermediate colors
Abstract Expressionist Artists
5. Rocks - pebbles etc - 'a hole can it self have as much shape meaning as a solid mass. The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation. The hole connects one side to the other - making it immediately more three - dimensional. A hole can i
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Ceramic - Sgraffito
kinds of stones for stone carving
6. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
scumbling
balance
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
kinds of stones for stone carving
7. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Equipment used in oil painting
Ionic columns
Greenware
8. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Depression art
Assemblage
Printmaking Techniques
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
9. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Adena Indian habitats
Gouache
Barabara Krugel
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
10. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Design Principles
Tapestry
Rotunda
11. 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'.
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Rococo
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Rabbit Skin Glue
12. 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
Monochrome printing
binder
kinds of stones for stone carving
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
13. A painting technique in which - as the name suggests - a little bit of paint is put on a dry brush. When applied - it produces a broken - scratchy effect.
dry - brushing
Acrylic paint
Another term used for buddhist temple
Used to protect pastel artwork
14. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Social Murals
Camera Obscura
Principle of Art
Rodin
15. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Rococo
Sfumato
Dry Point
Japanese art and buildings
16. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
Wood and bronze
Emphasis
scumbling
Depression art
17. Used in water printing
David Hockney
Stoneware
Rough paper
Acrylic paint
18. Pagoda
Corinthian columns
Artists associated with Pointillism
Another term used for buddhist temple
Depression era Artists
19. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Parchment
Environmental Art
Women artist of the 19th century
Printmaking Techniques
20. What goes horizontal across a loom?
David Hockney
Environmental Art
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Yarn
21. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Pastel
Motif
Scoring
22. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Baroque painting
the golden section (architecture)
Forms of Charcoal
chromatic gray
23. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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24. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
Lotus postition
Doric columns
Rabbit Skin Glue
Principle of Art
25. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Fire clay
Hardbrick
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Column of Trajan
26. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Cast concrete - modeling
Pumice
Linear perspective
Rice paper
27. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
I.M. Pei
Brown
Isocephaly
Stepped Pyramid Temples
28. Air - dry unfired clay
Environmental Art
frisket
Tessera
Greenware
29. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Dome
Thomas Gainsborough
intaglio
Sulfur
30. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Esquisse
Environmental Art
frisket
Encaustic
31. 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.
best resolution in a digital photo?
Crenellation
Tempera paint
Batik
32. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
gesso
wedging the clay
Turpentine
33. Gray made by mixing complements
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Meyer Schapiro
chromatic gray
stain glass in a cathedral
34. What is another work for low relief?
Pop artists
gouache
Bas
Tapestry
35. 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).
Hardbrick
Pointillism
dry - brushing
David Hockney
36. 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
Romanesque
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Mississippian
Joseph Beuys
37. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
binder
Appropriation Art
Van Der Zee
African Benin Sculputure
38. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Assemblage
Fire clay
megalith
Shade
39. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Pop artists
value
warp
David Hockney
40. The central area of a church
nave
warp
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Women artist of the 19th century
41. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Designed the Barcelona chair
Palace of Versaille
Depression art
Esquisse
42. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
scumbling
Frida Kahlo
Facing forward and stiff
balance
43. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
film speed
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Rough paper
Albert Durer
44. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
warp
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Shutter Speed
Linseed oil
45. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Carving Tools
Pumice
nave
Wedging
46. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Stoneware
Trompe - l'oil
Rodin
Cast concrete - modeling
47. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
Embroidery
Van Der Zee
The post - and - lintel system
Mississippian
48. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
scumbling
Crenellation
chromatic gray
megalith
49. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Palace of Versaille
Hardbrick
CMYK
Isocephaly
50. 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
slip
Pointillism
Charcoal pen
Safety glasses