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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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1. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
frisket
Dry Point
Social Murals
Another term used for buddhist temple
2. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
weft
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Cement
Film Speed
3. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
Stoneware properties
Van Der Zee
Printmaking Techniques
Fire clay
4. Air - dry unfired clay
Greenware
vehicle
Pointillism
Emphasis
5. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
chromatic gray
Brushed used in oil painting
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Mayan
6. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
Impasto
Tapestry
intaglio
Scoring
7. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
I.M. Pei
dry - brushing
Depression art
Shutter Speed
8. 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
slip
Doric columns
Joseph Beuys
Camera Obscura
9. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Photogravure
Batik
Enameling
African masks
10. 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.
Croquis
Albert Durer
Degas and Cassett
David Hockney
11. 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).
Known Rodin prints
Linseed oil
Hardbrick
Greenware
12. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
A black line
kinds of stones for stone carving
Color field painting
Loom
13. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Depth of Field
Women artist of the 19th century
'fat over lean'
Isocephaly
14. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
nave
Thomas Gainsborough
Environmental Art
gesso
15. Gouge and chisel
Carving Tools
Lotus postition
weft
Gel medium
16. What color do two secondary colors make?
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
slip
Brown
Ceramic glaze
17. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
Lotus postition
The Renaissance
I.M. Pei
The post - and - lintel system
18. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Emphasis
Safety glasses
Brown
Column of Trajan
19. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
intermediate colors
Aperture
Albert Durer
Degas and Cassett
20. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
Acrylic paint
slip
Pumice
weft
21. Robert Smithson
Pumice
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Pop artists
Meyer Schapiro
22. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Depression era Artists
Tenebrism
Ceramic glaze
Frida Kahlo
23. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Parchment
Known Rodin prints
Neoclassical
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
24. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Dome
Describe the process of fresco
slip
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
25. Pagoda
Another term used for buddhist temple
Appropriation Art
Shade
Islam art
26. ...
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Known Rodin prints
Photogravure
African masks
27. Origin is Mayan
Facing forward and stiff
Emphasis
Brown
Stepped Pyramid Temples
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
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
constructed the Spiral Jetty
intaglio
Abstract Expressionist Artists
29. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Tenebrism
Pop artists
Adena Indian habitats
Basquiat
30. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
Environmental Art
Jewelry tools
The Renaissance
Aperture
31. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Collage
kinds of stones for stone carving
chromatic gray
value
32. AP on an art product means what
Artist Proof
Embroidery
Yarn
the golden section (architecture)
33. A ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both. Ancient Ea ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the su
the golden section (architecture)
Rough paper
Ceramic glaze
Pointillism
34. 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.
dry - brushing
Degas and Cassett
Egg Tempera
Rococo
35. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
Adena Indian habitats
warp
Another term used for buddhist temple
Batik
36. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Camera Obscura
gouache
Film Speed
Collage
37. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Describe the process of fresco
Doric columns
Wedging
value
38. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Tint
Tapestry
Esquisse
Croquis
39. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Islam art
Principle of Art
Julio Gonzalez
modeling
40. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
Crenellation
Ceramic glaze
gesso
The Renaissance
41. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Equipment used in oil painting
Color field painting artists
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Rough paper
42. To make a quick sketch
vehicle
Known Rodin prints
Croquis
Dry Point
43. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
Crenellation
Environmental Art
I.M. Pei
Sfumato
44. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Gel medium
Motif
Tenebrism
Egg Tempera
45. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Color field painting artists
Stoneware
46. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?
Impasto
Depression art
Sulfur
Embroidery
47. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
intermediate colors
Design Principles
Cast concrete - modeling
Adena Indian habitats
48. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Rough paper
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
aquatint
nave
49. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
chromatic gray
Depth of Field
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Degas and Cassett
50. 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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