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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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1. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
modeling
Barabara Krugel
kinds of stones for stone carving
Known Rodin prints
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.
Encaustic
rhythm
Romantic Era
Facing forward and stiff
3. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Rabbit Skin Glue
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Equipment used in oil painting
Photogravure
4. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
The post - and - lintel system
Isocephaly
Romantic Era
Loom
5. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Design Elements
Japanese art and buildings
Palace of Versaille
Pop artists
6. ...
Adena Indian habitats
Croquis
Tint
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
7. 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
Motif
Ceramic glaze
Rodin
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
8. A dominant idea or central theme
Titan's key works
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Motif
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
9. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Artist Proof
Tint
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
best resolution in a digital photo?
10. Huge stones
Abstract Expressionist Artists
megalith
African Benin Sculputure
Grisaille
11. To make a quick sketch
Rodin
Degas and Cassett
Stoneware
Croquis
12. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
African Benin Sculputure
Grisaille
Environmental Art
Greenware
13. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Gothic Cathedrals
Stoneware
Adena Indian habitats
Hagia Sophia
14. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Describe the process of fresco
Monochrome printing
scumbling
Social Realism
15. What city had the first skyscraper?
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Doric columns
Carving Tools
Paint Extender
16. 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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17. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
Forms of Charcoal
Yarn
A black line
film speed
18. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Encaustic
Shade
Carving Tools
Photorealism
19. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Forms of Charcoal
Kinetic art
Rococo
20. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Assemblage
Safety glasses
kinds of stones for stone carving
Tapestry
21. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?
Charcoal pen
Sulfur
Impasto
three point perspective
22. Rene Magritte
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Dome
Wedging
Tessera
23. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Depth of Field
Environmental Art
Jewelry tools
24. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Value
Pop artists
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Parchment
25. 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.
Scoring
Embroidery
Degas and Cassett
Home Insurance Building in NYC
26. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Japanese art and buildings
Palace of Versaille
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Romantic Era
27. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Equipment used in oil painting
Women artist of the 19th century
Basquiat
28. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Design Principles
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Esquisse
Acrylic paint
29. Robert Smithson
constructed the Spiral Jetty
I.M. Pei
Corinthian columns
Depression art
30. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
slip
Japanese art and buildings
Social Realism
Linear perspective
31. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
binder
Sfumato
Rembrandt
Tapestry
32. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Japanese art and buildings
Pop artists
Hagia Sophia
Rice paper
33. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Crenellation
Pastel
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Romanesque
34. 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
Tempera paint
Facing forward and stiff
Linear perspective
35. Pagoda
nave
Design Elements
Another term used for buddhist temple
Photogravure
36. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Rabbit Skin Glue
Bas
Degas and Cassett
Palace of Versaille
37. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
Fire clay
Scoring
The Renaissance
Shade
38. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
Esquisse
Elements of Art
Tapestry
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
39. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
intaglio
Mississippian
slip
Social Murals
40. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Joseph Beuys
Georgian Style
weft
binder
41. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
kinds of stones for stone carving
Barabara Krugel
Brown
three point perspective
42. Came in response to the darkness and heaviness of Baroque art - but did continue many of the ideals specified during the 17th century. Rococo related much more to decorative shapes as well as the natural and organic. Swirling shapes and asymmetrical
three point perspective
Rococo
Rice paper
Emphasis
43. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Depth of Field
Linear perspective
Ionic columns
Gouache
44. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
warp
Fire clay
Cast concrete - modeling
Wedging
45. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Pumice
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Used to protect pastel artwork
Basic Elements of Sculpture
46. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Crenellation
Brushed used in oil painting
Paint Extender
Monochrome printing
47. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
Charcoal pen
Photorealism
Embroidery
stain glass in a cathedral
48. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Meyer Schapiro
David Hockney
dry - brushing
CMYK
49. Used in water printing
Color field painting artists
Tapestry
wedging the clay
Acrylic paint
50. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Motif
Joseph Beuys
weft
Artists associated with Pointillism