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Praxis 2 Art
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1. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Shade
modeling
Esquisse
Thomas Gainsborough
2. Rene Magritte
Artist Proof
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Romantic Era
Tapestry
3. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Linseed oil
Tint
Romanesque Cathedrals
Lotus postition
4. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
Depression art
warp
Croquis
Corinthian columns
5. 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
Artist Proof
Pointillism
Rice paper
6. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Mayan
The post - and - lintel system
Batik
Brushed used in oil painting
7. Used in water printing
Basquiat
Mayan
Acrylic paint
Frottage
8. Pagoda
modeling
nave
Another term used for buddhist temple
Photogravure
9. 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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10. 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
William Blake
Pointillism
Collage
Appropriation Art
11. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Doric columns
The post - and - lintel system
Linear perspective
frisket
12. ...
Stoneware properties
Photogravure
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Color field painting
13. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?
Sulfur
Pointillism
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
14. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Armature
Artist Proof
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
rhythm
15. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Water
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Rotunda
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
16. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Kinetic art
Rodin
Degas and Cassett
Mayan
17. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Pumice
Van Der Zee
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Stoneware properties
18. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Home Insurance Building in NYC
nave
Depression art
Social Realism
19. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Rabbit Skin Glue
Design Elements
Meyer Schapiro
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
20. Focused on the depiction of patterns and Arabic calligraphy - rather than on figures - because it is feared by many Muslims that the depiction of the human form is idolatry and thereby a sin against God - forbidden in the Qur'an.
CMYK
Linear perspective
Islam art
Facing forward and stiff
21. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Adena Indian habitats
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Design Principles
Camera Obscura
22. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
Tessera
Encaustic
Photogravure
intermediate colors
23. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
Wedging
Baroque painting
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
three point perspective
24. Cyan - Magenta - Yellow - Key (blacK). This ystem is used for printing. For mixing of pigments - it is better to use the secondary colours - since they mix subtractively instead of additively.
Armature
Rice paper
Equipment used in oil painting
CMYK
25. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Linseed oil
Romantic Era
Shade
Camera Obscura
26. 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
Ionic columns
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Rococo
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
27. The genre of painting based on using the camera and photographs to gather information and then from this information - creating a painting that appears to be very realistic like a photograph.
Photorealism
Michelangelo
Romantic Era
Barabara Krugel
28. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Collage
modeling
Embroidery
Rabbit Skin Glue
29. 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
Stoneware properties
Albert Durer
Lotus postition
Joseph Beuys
30. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
Joseph Beuys
warp
African masks
Pop artists
31. Who said ' less is more'?
Ionic columns
Esquisse
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
32. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
film speed
Esquisse
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
The post - and - lintel system
33. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Social Murals
Gouache
Dagyuerrotype
intermediate colors
34. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
Printmaking Techniques
best resolution in a digital photo?
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Rough paper
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.
Rice paper
Social Murals
Wedging
Film Speed
36. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Ceramic - Sgraffito
The post - and - lintel system
Wedging
analogous Colors
37. What color do two secondary colors make?
Tenebrism
Brown
Sfumato
Van Der Zee
38. 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
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Grisaille
Baroque painting
rhythm
39. To make a quick sketch
Croquis
Charcoal pen
Romanesque Cathedrals
Islam art
40. 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
Tenebrism
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Egg Tempera
41. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
wedging the clay
Degas and Cassett
Georgian Style
Designed the Barcelona chair
42. Made out of Metal
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
African Benin Sculputure
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Tapestry
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.
slip
Aperture
Camera Obscura
balance
44. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Abstract Expressionist Artists
'fat over lean'
Appropriation Art
Rotunda
45. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Women artist of the 19th century
Ionic columns
Frottage
Brushed used in oil painting
46. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Loom
Trompe - l'oil
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
constructed the Spiral Jetty
47. Symmetrical balance
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48. A painting technique in which - as the name suggests - a little bit of paint is put on a dry brush. When applied - it produces a broken - scratchy effect.
Dome
dry - brushing
Depth of Field
Forms of Charcoal
49. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Rice paper
Stoneware properties
Isocephaly
50. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Gouache
Pointillism
Value
Japanese art and buildings
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