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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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1. rayons resistant to what?
The post - and - lintel system
Water
Armature
Stepped Pyramid Temples
2. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Rembrandt
intermediate colors
Film Speed
Dagyuerrotype
3. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Mississippian
nave
Loom
Sulfur
4. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Corinthian columns
Romanesque
Collage
Dome
5. A form of painting in which tiny dots of primary - colors are used to generate secondary colors. It is very similar to Divisionism - except that where Divisionism is concerned with color theory - Pointillism is more focused on the specific style of b
Rococo
Known Rodin prints
Monochrome printing
Pointillism
6. Huge stones
Forms of Charcoal
megalith
Gouache
Julio Gonzalez
7. 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.
Encaustic
Film Speed
wedging the clay
Dome
8. To make a quick sketch
Shade
Romanesque Cathedrals
African masks
Croquis
9. Continuous frieze
Aperture
Gouache
Dagyuerrotype
Column of Trajan
10. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Color field painting
Tenebrism
CMYK
Ionic columns
11. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
Parchment
Principle of Art
Rotunda
kinds of stones for stone carving
12. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
Shutter Speed
Rough paper
binder
Bas
13. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
Frottage
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Rembrandt
Gouache
14. 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
Enameling
Baroque painting
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Frida Kahlo
15. 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
Environmental Art
Michelangelo
Neoclassical
Ceramic - Sgraffito
16. 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.
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Aperture
Depression art
Romantic Era
17. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Gel medium
Tempera paint
Frottage
Gothic Cathedrals
18. The laying of paint thickly
Impasto
Tapestry
megalith
Value
19. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Tint
Shade
I.M. Pei
20. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
three point perspective
Tint
Paint Extender
21. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Tessera
Used to protect pastel artwork
Julio Gonzalez
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
22. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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23. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Parchment
Albert Durer
Artist Proof
Impasto
24. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Gouache
megalith
Rice paper
Shutter Speed
25. Came in response to the darkness and heaviness of Baroque art - but did continue many of the ideals specified during the 17th century. Rococo related much more to decorative shapes as well as the natural and organic. Swirling shapes and asymmetrical
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Isocephaly
Impasto
Rococo
26. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Women artist of the 19th century
Charcoal pen
Tenebrism
Trompe - l'oil
27. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Grisaille
Color field painting
Describe the process of fresco
28. 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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29. 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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30. Rene Magritte
Grisaille
Cast concrete - modeling
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Column of Trajan
31. Pagoda
Pumice
Appropriation Art
Another term used for buddhist temple
frisket
32. Considered one of the greatest printmakers of all time. Working with both woodcuts and copper engravings - he attained a level of detail that is virtually unsurpassed.
Albert Durer
intermediate colors
Trompe - l'oil
gesso
33. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
intermediate colors
Meyer Schapiro
gouache
Abstract Expressionist Artists
34. Gouge and chisel
Scoring
Carving Tools
Depth of Field
Pumice
35. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
David Hockney
Scoring
Monochrome printing
gouache
36. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Romantic Era
Tapestry
Doric columns
Esquisse
37. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
'fat over lean'
Designed the Barcelona chair
Facing forward and stiff
balance
38. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Gel medium
African masks
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Neoclassical
39. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Gouache
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Meyer Schapiro
Stoneware properties
40. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
three point perspective
Tint
Greenware
Photorealism
41. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
Trompe - l'oil
CMYK
A black line
Palace of Versaille
42. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
scumbling
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Loom
rhythm
43. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
best resolution in a digital photo?
slip
Environmental Art
Forms of Charcoal
44. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
Rice paper
Water
vehicle
Abstract Expressionist Artists
45. 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'.
Abstract Expressionist Artists
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
warp
Stoneware properties
46. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Rembrandt
rhythm
Thomas Gainsborough
Safety glasses
47. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Frottage
Rembrandt
Rabbit Skin Glue
Aperture
48. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Depression era Artists
Ionic columns
Esquisse
Parchment
49. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Acrylic paint
Color field painting
Julio Gonzalez
Fire clay
50. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Adena Indian habitats
Grisaille
film speed
Artists associated with Pointillism