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Praxis 2 Art
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1. Sculptor. Major Work: The Thinker - a naturalist - less concerned with monumental expression than with character and emotion. Departing with centuries of tradition - he turned away from the idealism of the Greeks - and the decorative beauty of the Ba
Rodin
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Greenware
Egg Tempera
2. Fix
Equipment used in oil painting
Used to protect pastel artwork
Croquis
Enameling
3. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Women artist of the 19th century
Depression era Artists
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
4. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Mississippian
modeling
Rough paper
warp
5. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Linear perspective
Dagyuerrotype
Camera Obscura
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
6. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Tempera paint
Degas and Cassett
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Linseed oil
7. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
Rabbit Skin Glue
Emphasis
slip
Monochrome printing
8. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Gouache
Tint
vehicle
Rembrandt
9. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Women artist of the 19th century
Carving Tools
Chiaroscuro
CMYK
10. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Armature
A black line
Egg Tempera
11. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Artists associated with Pointillism
Thomas Gainsborough
Forms of Charcoal
Hardbrick
12. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Sfumato
Brushed used in oil painting
Impasto
Principle of Art
13. Who made large portraits of friends?
David Hockney
Motif
Baroque painting
scumbling
14. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Gouache
Dagyuerrotype
Croquis
15. 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
Frida Kahlo
Ionic columns
Trompe - l'oil
Croquis
16. Painter and printmaker of Romantism.Held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity - and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. Works: The Song of Los - The Lovers Whirlwind - Ancient of Days
Used to protect pastel artwork
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Social Murals
William Blake
17. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Loom
Paint Extender
warp
18. Made out of Metal
African Benin Sculputure
Meyer Schapiro
A black line
rhythm
19. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Facing forward and stiff
nave
Hagia Sophia
Rococo
20. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
megalith
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Describe the process of fresco
Titan's key works
21. 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'.
Frida Kahlo
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
A black line
Greenware
22. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
Kinetic art
Color field painting
Artists associated with Pointillism
best resolution in a digital photo?
23. Neo expressionist artist - Jean - Michel Basquiat was an American painter who rose to fame in the 1980s - and was the first African - American artist to gain international acclaim. His emotionally - charged paintings gave rise to graffiti art and the
Sulfur
Basquiat
Grisaille
Another term used for buddhist temple
24. A dominant idea or central theme
Equipment used in oil painting
Motif
Describe the process of fresco
Camera Obscura
25. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
Michelangelo
I.M. Pei
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Egg Tempera
26. To make a quick sketch
Stoneware properties
balance
Gothic Cathedrals
Croquis
27. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Armature
Mayan
best resolution in a digital photo?
Water
28. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
best resolution in a digital photo?
Rotunda
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Social Realism
29. Continuous frieze
Rotunda
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Column of Trajan
Chiaroscuro
30. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
scumbling
Rabbit Skin Glue
A black line
binder
31. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Design Elements
Yarn
Stoneware
Artist Proof
32. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Corinthian columns
Crenellation
Rice paper
Ceramic glaze
33. 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
David Hockney
Romanesque Cathedrals
best resolution in a digital photo?
Neoclassical
34. An art and design principle concerned with the arrangement of one or more elements in a work of art so that they appear symmetrical (even) or asymmetrical (uneven) in design and proportion.
balance
Hagia Sophia
CMYK
I.M. Pei
35. rayons resistant to what?
Frida Kahlo
Ionic columns
Water
Basic Elements of Sculpture
36. 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.
Rough paper
scumbling
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Dry Point
37. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
A black line
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Gothic Cathedrals
Appropriation Art
38. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Artists associated with Pointillism
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Film Speed
Tapestry
39. What color do two secondary colors make?
weft
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Brown
Home Insurance Building in NYC
40. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
modeling
Acrylic paint
Michelangelo
Cement
41. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
Yarn
intaglio
Women artist of the 19th century
Chiaroscuro
42. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Film Speed
intermediate colors
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
43. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
frisket
Ionic columns
Tempera paint
David Hockney
44. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Tapestry
Color field painting artists
warp
45. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Depression art
Neoclassical
vehicle
Adena Indian habitats
46. Gouge and chisel
Islam art
Carving Tools
Cast concrete - modeling
Embroidery
47. 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.
gouache
Sfumato
Color field painting
Georgian Style
48. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Frottage
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Photogravure
The post - and - lintel system
49. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Value
The post - and - lintel system
Color field painting artists
Titan's key works
50. Huge stones
megalith
William Blake
Georgian Style
Rembrandt
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