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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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1. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Lotus postition
Basic Elements of Sculpture
film speed
Value
2. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Motif
Lotus postition
Tapestry
wedging the clay
3. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
vehicle
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Lotus postition
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
4. 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
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Romanesque
Assemblage
Thomas Gainsborough
5. What color do two secondary colors make?
Romanesque Cathedrals
Michelangelo
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Brown
6. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Ionic columns
Crenellation
vehicle
Forms of Charcoal
7. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Albert Durer
Facing forward and stiff
Rough paper
Dome
8. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Stoneware
Batik
Social Realism
Women artist of the 19th century
9. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Basquiat
The post - and - lintel system
Motif
Linear perspective
10. To make a quick sketch
Croquis
Julio Gonzalez
Hardbrick
Dome
11. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Dome
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Rodin
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
12. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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13. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
Scoring
rhythm
Gel medium
Ceramic glaze
14. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
Ceramic - Sgraffito
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Loom
Rabbit Skin Glue
15. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Appropriation Art
Enameling
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Environmental Art
16. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Photogravure
I.M. Pei
aquatint
Pointillism
17. Made out of Metal
Romantic Era
Used to protect pastel artwork
Japanese art and buildings
African Benin Sculputure
18. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Printmaking Techniques
scumbling
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Artist Proof
19. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
African masks
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
I.M. Pei
Van Der Zee
20. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Photogravure
value
Gouache
megalith
21. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Column of Trajan
Gothic Cathedrals
Meyer Schapiro
African Benin Sculputure
22. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Jewelry tools
Artists associated with Pointillism
Cement
Batik
23. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Ionic columns
Pop artists
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Corinthian columns
24. Used her life experiences into her artwork - including her marriage - her miscarriages - and her numerous operations - works often are characterized by their stark portrayals of pain - combined elements of the classic religious Mexican tradition with
'fat over lean'
Dome
Frida Kahlo
Collage
25. Italian term meaning smoke - describing a very delicate gradation of light and shade in the modeling of figures; often ascribed to Da Vinci's work.
Rococo
Collage
Social Realism
Sfumato
26. Example of baroque architecture
Degas and Cassett
Hardbrick
Palace of Versaille
Basquiat
27. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Chiaroscuro
Romantic Era
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
African Benin Sculputure
28. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Chiaroscuro
Paint Extender
megalith
Thomas Gainsborough
29. A dominant idea or central theme
Known Rodin prints
Motif
Tapestry
Egg Tempera
30. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Georgian Style
Women artist of the 19th century
31. Pagoda
Designed the Barcelona chair
Palace of Versaille
Principle of Art
Another term used for buddhist temple
32. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Paint Extender
Doric columns
Frida Kahlo
Van Der Zee
33. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
Romanesque
Basquiat
analogous Colors
Titan's key works
34. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Motif
value
Charcoal pen
chromatic gray
35. AP on an art product means what
Encaustic
Loom
Artist Proof
Design Principles
36. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Design Elements
Equipment used in oil painting
Designed the Barcelona chair
37. 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
Croquis
Parchment
Tenebrism
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
38. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Shade
Kinetic art
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Equipment used in oil painting
39. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Film Speed
Design Principles
Rotunda
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
40. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
kinds of stones for stone carving
Van Der Zee
Stoneware properties
slip
41. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
Mississippian
African masks
warp
Frottage
42. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
Artist Proof
The Renaissance
Dagyuerrotype
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
43. 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.
Michelangelo
Shade
Islam art
Greenware
44. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Environmental Art
Gel medium
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Romanesque
45. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Color field painting
Rodin
Islam art
46. What is another work for low relief?
Social Realism
Bas
Grisaille
Rabbit Skin Glue
47. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
Rococo
Camera Obscura
Dagyuerrotype
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
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
Shutter Speed
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
frisket
Rodin
49. 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.
Van Der Zee
CMYK
Jewelry tools
Stepped Pyramid Temples
50. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Esquisse
scumbling
megalith
Sulfur