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Praxis 2 Art
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1. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Dome
Linear perspective
Titan's key works
Appropriation Art
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.
Facing forward and stiff
rhythm
Tint
Sulfur
3. 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.
Used to protect pastel artwork
Ceramic glaze
Embroidery
Rice paper
4. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Rough paper
Assemblage
Adena Indian habitats
Emphasis
5. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
chromatic gray
Thomas Gainsborough
Rice paper
Elements of Art
6. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
modeling
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
CMYK
Romanesque Cathedrals
7. Woven wall hangings.
Sfumato
Van Der Zee
Tapestry
Kinetic art
8. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
dry - brushing
Acrylic paint
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Tapestry
9. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Kinetic art
Isocephaly
Albert Durer
10. Fix
Wood and bronze
Describe the process of fresco
Used to protect pastel artwork
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
11. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
slip
Ceramic glaze
Value
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
12. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Wood and bronze
Paint Extender
Environmental Art
Gothic Cathedrals
13. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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14. 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
Dry Point
Dagyuerrotype
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
15. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Degas and Cassett
Linear perspective
Doric columns
Appropriation Art
16. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Egg Tempera
Designed the Barcelona chair
Jewelry tools
Encaustic
17. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
value
Japanese art and buildings
Titan's key works
Kinetic art
18. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Isocephaly
Value
Stoneware
Artists associated with Pointillism
19. 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
Charcoal pen
Pointillism
dry - brushing
Basquiat
20. 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
Rice paper
Social Realism
William Blake
Collage
21. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
Encaustic
aquatint
Brown
Printmaking Techniques
22. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Printmaking Techniques
Doric columns
Color field painting
vehicle
23. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?
Ionic columns
Paint Extender
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Sulfur
24. The second oldest medium after encaustic. It was used by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks and perfected by the icon painters during the last 100 years of the old Byzantine Empire (400 AD-1202 AD).
Tenebrism
Dome
the golden section (architecture)
Egg Tempera
25. Used in water printing
aquatint
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Acrylic paint
Baroque painting
26. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Egg Tempera
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Carving Tools
27. 3X 5300 pixels
Ceramic glaze
best resolution in a digital photo?
Color field painting artists
Brushed used in oil painting
28. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Rotunda
Describe the process of fresco
value
three point perspective
29. 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
Japanese art and buildings
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Turpentine
Bas
30. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Rough paper
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Shade
Chiaroscuro
31. Gouge and chisel
Baroque painting
Lotus postition
Carving Tools
Grisaille
32. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
The post - and - lintel system
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
The Renaissance
Tessera
33. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
Design Elements
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Pastel
gesso
34. Huge stones
megalith
Photorealism
Printmaking Techniques
aquatint
35. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Tapestry
Georgian Style
Rembrandt
Wedging
36. 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.
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Artist Proof
the golden section (architecture)
balance
37. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Dry Point
Japanese art and buildings
David Hockney
Brushed used in oil painting
38. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
Aperture
Corinthian columns
Environmental Art
Scoring
39. Came in response to Renaissance Art - ominous - otherworldly - and dark in subject. _________ art was heavily influenced by the Counter - reformation and thus more interested in dramatic scenes of saints and history paintings.Art from the Baroque per
Baroque painting
Esquisse
Titan's key works
analogous Colors
40. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Tint
Embroidery
Turpentine
Batik
41. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Designed the Barcelona chair
Shade
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Van Der Zee
42. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Wedging
Egg Tempera
Ionic columns
Depth of Field
43. Is a circle - shaped opening in a lens (a hole - really) through which light passes to strike the film. The size of the aperture is expressed as an f - number - like f/8 or f/11.
Turpentine
Describe the process of fresco
Parchment
Aperture
44. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Monochrome printing
Brushed used in oil painting
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
45. 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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46. Air - dry unfired clay
analogous Colors
Greenware
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Japanese art and buildings
47. 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.
Water
Tempera paint
Barabara Krugel
Rococo
48. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Stoneware
Tapestry
balance
Brown
49. Gray made by mixing complements
Gel medium
chromatic gray
Shutter Speed
gouache
50. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
Ionic columns
Pastel
Another term used for buddhist temple
Film Speed
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