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Praxis 2 Art
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1. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Loom
Gothic Cathedrals
Equipment used in oil painting
Value
2. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
frisket
nave
Isocephaly
William Blake
3. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Dagyuerrotype
Rabbit Skin Glue
Artists associated with Pointillism
4. Used in water printing
Rembrandt
A black line
Barabara Krugel
Acrylic paint
5. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Georgian Style
slip
Ceramic glaze
Wedging
6. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Cast concrete - modeling
constructed the Spiral Jetty
I.M. Pei
7. Made out of Metal
aquatint
Romantic Era
constructed the Spiral Jetty
African Benin Sculputure
8. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Hagia Sophia
Doric columns
Tenebrism
Depression era Artists
9. Who said ' less is more'?
Dagyuerrotype
Depression art
Romanesque
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
10. Continuous frieze
Water
Palace of Versaille
Environmental Art
Column of Trajan
11. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
weft
Artist Proof
Assemblage
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
12. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
best resolution in a digital photo?
Loom
Water
Gouache
13. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Forms of Charcoal
Titan's key works
Shade
gouache
14. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Jewelry tools
Rough paper
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
15. 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
Frida Kahlo
Social Realism
Hardbrick
Pointillism
16. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Linear perspective
three point perspective
Georgian Style
Frida Kahlo
17. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Linear perspective
Joseph Beuys
Corinthian columns
vehicle
18. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
Tapestry
Titan's key works
Color field painting artists
Tint
19. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Wood and bronze
Ionic columns
Pop artists
Water
20. 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.
Frottage
Embroidery
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Aperture
21. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
Gouache
Doric columns
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Romanesque Cathedrals
22. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Mayan
Romantic Era
Van Der Zee
Abstract Expressionist Artists
23. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
modeling
Rabbit Skin Glue
Design Principles
Wood and bronze
24. Huge stones
Motif
megalith
Design Principles
balance
25. Most common oil in oil paints
Julio Gonzalez
Linseed oil
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Romanesque
26. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
megalith
Stoneware
Albert Durer
Motif
27. Made by Gustav Eiffel - Eiffel - marks the centennial celebration of the French Revolution. Liberty - iconic symbol of freedom and of the United States. French gave the US - statue of liberty
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Jewelry tools
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Parchment
28. Harlem Renaissance artist known for etchings - was a German painter - printmaker - and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition in the first half of the 20th century. Her empathy for the less fortunate
Paint Extender
Designed the Barcelona chair
vehicle
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
29. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
Water
Chiaroscuro
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
three point perspective
30. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston
Egg Tempera
Artist Proof
Turpentine
Abstract Expressionist Artists
31. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
Linear perspective
Joseph Beuys
Depression art
Stoneware properties
32. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Printmaking Techniques
Sulfur
the golden section (architecture)
stain glass in a cathedral
33. 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
Michelangelo
Shade
Basquiat
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
34. 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
Romanesque
Artist Proof
The Renaissance
Tapestry
35. In art - the perception of depth in nature as enhanced by haze in the atmosphere; how the appearance of objects is altered over distance by the effects of the air between the viewer and the object
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Printmaking Techniques
Sulfur
Depth of Field
36. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Social Realism
Motif
Rembrandt
Gothic Cathedrals
37. 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.
Aperture
Stoneware properties
megalith
Acrylic paint
38. 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
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Abstract Expressionist Artists
39. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Shade
Impasto
Jewelry tools
40. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
Michelangelo
Wedging
gouache
Yarn
41. Hard - dense firebrick generally used only in high - stress areas of kiln (floor - burner ports - flues - bagwall) and for corrosive firing processes (salt - soda - wood).
vehicle
Brushed used in oil painting
Sfumato
Hardbrick
42. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
Color field painting
Gouache
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
aquatint
43. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Shade
Stoneware properties
Depression art
Monochrome printing
44. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Adena Indian habitats
William Blake
Bas
Enameling
45. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Isocephaly
film speed
Croquis
47. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
intermediate colors
intaglio
modeling
Principle of Art
48. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
Grisaille
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Isocephaly
weft
49. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
I.M. Pei
Gouache
Cement
stain glass in a cathedral
50. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Wood and bronze
Loom
Principle of Art
Shutter Speed
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