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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Printmaking Techniques
Enameling
Romanesque Cathedrals
Trompe - l'oil
2. 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.
Thomas Gainsborough
intaglio
Basic Elements of Sculpture
dry - brushing
3. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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4. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Tapestry
Rembrandt
best resolution in a digital photo?
Camera Obscura
5. 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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6. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
film speed
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
A black line
Designed the Barcelona chair
7. Gouge and chisel
Van Der Zee
Carving Tools
Thomas Gainsborough
Corinthian columns
8. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Dome
Adena Indian habitats
Elements of Art
Armature
9. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
gesso
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Japanese art and buildings
Appropriation Art
10. AP on an art product means what
Encaustic
Photogravure
Artist Proof
Scoring
11. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
The post - and - lintel system
best resolution in a digital photo?
Gouache
Michelangelo
12. 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
Jewelry tools
Depth of Field
Greenware
Tenebrism
13. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Michelangelo
David Hockney
Paint Extender
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
14. Known by its massive quality - its thick walls - round arches - sturdy piers - groin vaults - large towers and decorative arcading. Each building has clearly defined forms and they are frequently of very regular - symmetrical plan so that the overall
slip
The post - and - lintel system
Frottage
Romanesque Cathedrals
15. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Armature
Palace of Versaille
Designed the Barcelona chair
Romantic Era
16. Who made large portraits of friends?
David Hockney
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
wedging the clay
Japanese art and buildings
17. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Carving Tools
Artist Proof
Scoring
Brushed used in oil painting
18. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Equipment used in oil painting
Brown
Depression art
Ceramic - Sgraffito
19. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Women artist of the 19th century
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Hagia Sophia
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
20. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
rhythm
Depth of Field
Romantic Era
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
21. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Equipment used in oil painting
Sfumato
wedging the clay
22. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Gel medium
William Blake
Safety glasses
Rodin
23. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Meyer Schapiro
Designed the Barcelona chair
Tapestry
Acrylic paint
24. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
Depression art
Baroque painting
Designed the Barcelona chair
rhythm
25. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Tint
Wood and bronze
frisket
Mississippian
26. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
Shade
best resolution in a digital photo?
Julio Gonzalez
gesso
27. 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
Photorealism
Albert Durer
Frida Kahlo
28. His versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Stoneware properties
Column of Trajan
Michelangelo
29. What color do two secondary colors make?
Enameling
Brown
Cement
the golden section (architecture)
30. 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
Depression art
Bas
Women artist of the 19th century
31. Gray made by mixing complements
Kinetic art
Lotus postition
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
chromatic gray
32. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Pop artists
African Benin Sculputure
Depression art
Camera Obscura
33. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Jewelry tools
weft
Principle of Art
Rodin
34. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Frida Kahlo
modeling
Design Principles
Degas and Cassett
35. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
warp
Color field painting artists
Stoneware
36. 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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37. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
analogous Colors
stain glass in a cathedral
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Printmaking Techniques
38. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Design Principles
Emphasis
Parchment
Pop artists
39. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Women artist of the 19th century
Basquiat
best resolution in a digital photo?
Michelangelo
40. What is another work for low relief?
Georgian Style
Bas
film speed
Artist Proof
41. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
Julio Gonzalez
gouache
slip
Shade
42. What city had the first skyscraper?
slip
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Kinetic art
Home Insurance Building in NYC
43. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Meyer Schapiro
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Known Rodin prints
Rough paper
44. 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
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Tapestry
Monochrome printing
Rembrandt
45. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Basquiat
Mayan
Dagyuerrotype
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
46. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Brown
Social Realism
Barabara Krugel
Abstract Expressionist Artists
47. ...
Corinthian columns
Degas and Cassett
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Rice paper
48. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Turpentine
Gothic Cathedrals
Ionic columns
Equipment used in oil painting
49. A German performance artist - sculptor - installation artist - graphic artist - art theorist and pedagogue of art. Artwork: Performance : How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare
Joseph Beuys
Facing forward and stiff
Stoneware properties
Basquiat
50. In oil painting - the technique of brushing one layer of paint on top of another in a way that reveals some of the under color.
Adena Indian habitats
scumbling
Wood and bronze
chromatic gray