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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. 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.
William Blake
Rembrandt
gesso
scumbling
2. 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
Stoneware properties
value
Tempera paint
3. 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
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Hardbrick
Tapestry
4. 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
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Sfumato
Trompe - l'oil
Pointillism
5. Symmetrical balance
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6. What is another work for low relief?
I.M. Pei
Bas
Sfumato
Rotunda
7. 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
scumbling
Baroque painting
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Hagia Sophia
8. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Pop artists
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Artist Proof
Camera Obscura
9. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Michelangelo
Romantic Era
The Renaissance
Fire clay
10. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
David Hockney
Hagia Sophia
Motif
weft
11. 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
weft
Greenware
Tint
12. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
Pumice
Depression era Artists
Collage
Crenellation
13. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Artist Proof
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Another term used for buddhist temple
Thomas Gainsborough
14. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
African masks
Batik
CMYK
Assemblage
15. What city had the first skyscraper?
Cast concrete - modeling
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Paint Extender
chromatic gray
16. ...
frisket
stain glass in a cathedral
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
17. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Linseed oil
Motif
Neoclassical
Wedging
18. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Parchment
Adena Indian habitats
Describe the process of fresco
Sulfur
19. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Meyer Schapiro
Kinetic art
Embroidery
constructed the Spiral Jetty
20. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Dagyuerrotype
Artists associated with Pointillism
kinds of stones for stone carving
21. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
Barabara Krugel
Batik
Mayan
Kinetic art
22. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Barabara Krugel
Value
Egg Tempera
Dome
23. 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
Impasto
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Social Realism
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
24. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
Aperture
stain glass in a cathedral
Artist Proof
modeling
25. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Safety glasses
Chiaroscuro
'fat over lean'
Assemblage
26. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?
Describe the process of fresco
Sulfur
Rabbit Skin Glue
Adena Indian habitats
27. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Pop artists
Printmaking Techniques
Dome
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
28. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Meyer Schapiro
Collage
Wedging
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
29. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
rhythm
Designed the Barcelona chair
Appropriation Art
Brushed used in oil painting
30. Sculptor. Major Work: The Thinker - a naturalist - less concerned with monumental expression than with character and emotion. Departing with centuries of tradition - he turned away from the idealism of the Greeks - and the decorative beauty of the Ba
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Michelangelo
Enameling
Rodin
31. Most common oil in oil paints
Turpentine
The Renaissance
Linseed oil
Van Der Zee
32. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Pastel
Design Elements
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Assemblage
33. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
'fat over lean'
Social Murals
Film Speed
Scoring
34. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
Collage
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
kinds of stones for stone carving
Chiaroscuro
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
Palace of Versaille
Design Elements
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Greenware
36. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Cement
Crenellation
Baroque painting
Batik
37. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Julio Gonzalez
Gel medium
Emphasis
intaglio
38. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Esquisse
scumbling
Sfumato
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
39. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
three point perspective
Grisaille
Value
Tint
40. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Assemblage
Rabbit Skin Glue
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Basic Elements of Sculpture
41. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Design Elements
Facing forward and stiff
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Elements of Art
42. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
chromatic gray
Frottage
Describe the process of fresco
Albert Durer
43. 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
the golden section (architecture)
Assemblage
Emphasis
William Blake
44. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Rococo
Rice paper
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Wood and bronze
45. The laying of paint thickly
Jewelry tools
Impasto
Bas
megalith
46. 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.
Van Der Zee
Encaustic
Sfumato
Home Insurance Building in NYC
47. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Appropriation Art
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
I.M. Pei
Doric columns
48. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Designed the Barcelona chair
Column of Trajan
Forms of Charcoal
Barabara Krugel
49. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
Doric columns
Another term used for buddhist temple
intaglio
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
50. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Shutter Speed
Linear perspective
Gel medium
Encaustic