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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light. More sensitive (faster) films have higher ISO numbers and require less exposure in order to make a properly - exposed picture.
Film Speed
Design Principles
Basquiat
Rodin
2. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
wedging the clay
Stoneware
Elements of Art
frisket
3. rayons resistant to what?
Van Der Zee
Romanesque
Water
Georgian Style
4. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Tapestry
Depression art
Wood and bronze
Acrylic paint
5. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Bas
Impasto
Ceramic glaze
Artist Proof
6. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
The post - and - lintel system
Encaustic
Romantic Era
Design Principles
7. 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
gesso
wedging the clay
William Blake
8. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
vehicle
Brown
Degas and Cassett
Thomas Gainsborough
9. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Depth of Field
Dagyuerrotype
African masks
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
10. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
Jewelry tools
Van Der Zee
wedging the clay
Design Principles
11. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
Rough paper
Environmental Art
Color field painting artists
Design Elements
12. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Column of Trajan
Doric columns
Sfumato
Tapestry
13. Rene Magritte
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Environmental Art
Romanesque Cathedrals
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
14. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
Dry Point
megalith
rhythm
Fire clay
15. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
Neoclassical
Greenware
Stoneware properties
Film Speed
16. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Fire clay
Linear perspective
Tessera
Cast concrete - modeling
17. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
three point perspective
Hagia Sophia
Romanesque
Romanesque Cathedrals
18. 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
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
slip
Tenebrism
best resolution in a digital photo?
19. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Romantic Era
Designed the Barcelona chair
Sfumato
Enameling
20. Origin is Mayan
Stepped Pyramid Temples
gouache
Gel medium
Greenware
21. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Michelangelo
Forms of Charcoal
Embroidery
intermediate colors
22. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Wedging
William Blake
Pumice
Designed the Barcelona chair
23. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
Hagia Sophia
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Tessera
Rice paper
24. Who made large portraits of friends?
Encaustic
Thomas Gainsborough
Shutter Speed
David Hockney
25. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Paint Extender
the golden section (architecture)
Van Der Zee
Trompe - l'oil
26. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Chiaroscuro
Enameling
Meyer Schapiro
Rice paper
27. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Mississippian
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Tenebrism
Monochrome printing
28. 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.
Tapestry
Embroidery
Brushed used in oil painting
intermediate colors
29. Made out of Metal
Tessera
African Benin Sculputure
Safety glasses
stain glass in a cathedral
30. 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.
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Tempera paint
Van Der Zee
Elements of Art
31. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
gouache
Julio Gonzalez
Social Murals
Esquisse
32. Possin was a French painter in the classical style.Themes of tragedy and death are prevalent in Poussin's work.[13] Et in Arcadia ego - a subject he painted twice (second version is seen at right) - exemplifies his cerebral approach. In this composit
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33. 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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34. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Degas and Cassett
the golden section (architecture)
Titan's key works
binder
35. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Pointillism
Brushed used in oil painting
Georgian Style
Armature
36. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Egg Tempera
Georgian Style
Rotunda
Isocephaly
37. The laying of paint thickly
Kinetic art
Impasto
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
gesso
38. The central area of a church
nave
aquatint
Pop artists
Design Principles
39. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
intermediate colors
Emphasis
Degas and Cassett
Thomas Gainsborough
40. Fix
Acrylic paint
Used to protect pastel artwork
rhythm
Sfumato
41. Continuous frieze
Baroque painting
frisket
Column of Trajan
Tenebrism
42. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
three point perspective
Mississippian
gesso
Wood and bronze
43. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
wedging the clay
Wedging
Monochrome printing
Emphasis
44. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Sfumato
Describe the process of fresco
Ionic columns
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
45. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Another term used for buddhist temple
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Gouache
Tessera
46. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Mississippian
value
Carving Tools
dry - brushing
47. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Barabara Krugel
Women artist of the 19th century
Tessera
film speed
48. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Japanese art and buildings
weft
Social Realism
Brown
49. 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
Color field painting artists
Emphasis
vehicle
50. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
Elements of Art
Adena Indian habitats
Wedging
modeling