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Praxis 2 Art
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1. 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
Appropriation Art
Pointillism
nave
Emphasis
2. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Scoring
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Embroidery
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
3. Woven wall hangings.
Van Der Zee
Tapestry
Egg Tempera
Appropriation Art
4. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
Hagia Sophia
Neoclassical
warp
Forms of Charcoal
5. rayons resistant to what?
Tapestry
Environmental Art
Gothic Cathedrals
Water
6. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Trompe - l'oil
Cast concrete - modeling
Corinthian columns
megalith
7. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Women artist of the 19th century
Islam art
Romanesque
vehicle
8. 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).
Egg Tempera
Van Der Zee
Value
Pointillism
9. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Bas
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Wedging
Grisaille
10. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Brushed used in oil painting
Scoring
Frottage
Forms of Charcoal
11. The laying of paint thickly
Wedging
Impasto
Photorealism
Esquisse
12. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
African Benin Sculputure
Greenware
Parchment
aquatint
13. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
modeling
Aperture
Ceramic glaze
Rococo
14. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Elements of Art
value
Batik
15. 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.
Grisaille
scumbling
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Linseed oil
16. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Shutter Speed
Loom
dry - brushing
Sulfur
17. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Baroque painting
Color field painting
Printmaking Techniques
Palace of Versaille
18. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Known Rodin prints
Basic Elements of Sculpture
The Renaissance
Jewelry tools
19. Meaning to rub a crayon or other tool onto paper or other material - which is placed onto a textured surface - in order to create the texture of that surface on the paper.
Ionic columns
Degas and Cassett
Frottage
wedging the clay
20. Gouge and chisel
Carving Tools
Barabara Krugel
Titan's key works
rhythm
21. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Brushed used in oil painting
William Blake
Rotunda
intermediate colors
22. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Gouache
Monochrome printing
scumbling
Tint
23. 3X 5300 pixels
Acrylic paint
Motif
Loom
best resolution in a digital photo?
24. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
value
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Film Speed
frisket
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
Rococo
Forms of Charcoal
Frottage
Impasto
26. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Yarn
Environmental Art
Rembrandt
Kinetic art
27. 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
Greenware
Scoring
Romanesque
Basquiat
28. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
Facing forward and stiff
Dagyuerrotype
intermediate colors
dry - brushing
29. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Stoneware properties
Doric columns
Julio Gonzalez
Gothic Cathedrals
30. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Hardbrick
Lotus postition
Basquiat
Camera Obscura
31. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Photorealism
Cast concrete - modeling
Printmaking Techniques
32. 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.
intermediate colors
Women artist of the 19th century
Aperture
Esquisse
33. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
dry - brushing
Value
'fat over lean'
Fire clay
34. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
value
Artists associated with Pointillism
Pop artists
warp
35. 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.
The post - and - lintel system
Cast concrete - modeling
Batik
Film Speed
36. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?
William Blake
Shutter Speed
Sulfur
Impasto
37. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
Fire clay
Stoneware properties
Dagyuerrotype
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
38. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
gesso
Photogravure
megalith
stain glass in a cathedral
39. Who said ' less is more'?
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Aperture
Assemblage
CMYK
40. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
vehicle
scumbling
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
41. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Hardbrick
A black line
Value
Artists associated with Pointillism
42. What color do two secondary colors make?
Designed the Barcelona chair
wedging the clay
Brown
Kinetic art
43. 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.
Julio Gonzalez
Gouache
Sfumato
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
44. To mount a white and black photo - use...
The Renaissance
Rice paper
Crenellation
Design Elements
45. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
Social Murals
Color field painting artists
African masks
Lotus postition
46. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
value
Design Elements
Stepped Pyramid Temples
47. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
rhythm
Hardbrick
binder
Hagia Sophia
48. 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'.
Depression art
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Mississippian
Collage
49. Symmetrical balance
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50. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
nave
Georgian Style
Tapestry
Principle of Art