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Praxis 2 Art
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1. 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.
Value
Egg Tempera
dry - brushing
Pumice
2. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Dome
Collage
Film Speed
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
3. 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
Camera Obscura
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Romanesque Cathedrals
4. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Rococo
Rotunda
Depth of Field
wedging the clay
5. Gouge and chisel
Degas and Cassett
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Carving Tools
6. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Wood and bronze
Cement
Column of Trajan
Parchment
7. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Cement
Design Principles
scumbling
Croquis
8. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Dome
Camera Obscura
dry - brushing
Women artist of the 19th century
9. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
intermediate colors
modeling
Sulfur
Chiaroscuro
10. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
Carving Tools
Tempera paint
Emphasis
gesso
11. AP on an art product means what
Tapestry
Rice paper
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Artist Proof
12. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Tapestry
Thomas Gainsborough
Grisaille
Georgian Style
13. The laying of paint thickly
aquatint
Design Elements
Julio Gonzalez
Impasto
14. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Kinetic art
Tessera
Meyer Schapiro
Basic Elements of Sculpture
15. Robert Smithson
Scoring
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Women artist of the 19th century
constructed the Spiral Jetty
16. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Hagia Sophia
Tenebrism
Women artist of the 19th century
Isocephaly
17. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Monochrome printing
Lotus postition
Tapestry
18. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Mississippian
stain glass in a cathedral
Rembrandt
balance
19. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
binder
Camera Obscura
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Bas
20. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
Gel medium
Encaustic
intaglio
Tenebrism
21. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Esquisse
Linear perspective
Fire clay
rhythm
22. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Describe the process of fresco
Value
Principle of Art
The Renaissance
23. 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.
Design Elements
Monochrome printing
Sfumato
Dome
24. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Linseed oil
'fat over lean'
Wood and bronze
25. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Depression art
Julio Gonzalez
Trompe - l'oil
Forms of Charcoal
26. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
Artists associated with Pointillism
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Charcoal pen
Jewelry tools
27. 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
Wood and bronze
Depression era Artists
Linear perspective
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
28. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
vehicle
Shade
Degas and Cassett
Islam art
29. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Mayan
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Cement
Batik
30. Is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions.
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31. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Chiaroscuro
Aperture
Brushed used in oil painting
Column of Trajan
32. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?
Gothic Cathedrals
Sulfur
Depression art
Social Murals
33. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Water
Column of Trajan
Mississippian
Camera Obscura
34. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
Joseph Beuys
Lotus postition
African masks
Cement
35. Huge stones
Islam art
megalith
Facing forward and stiff
CMYK
36. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
The Renaissance
Color field painting
Julio Gonzalez
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
37. Most common oil in oil paints
megalith
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Safety glasses
Linseed oil
38. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Gel medium
Pumice
Motif
Home Insurance Building in NYC
39. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
Batik
Collage
Color field painting artists
Doric columns
40. 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
Carving Tools
Yarn
Baroque painting
Enameling
41. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
slip
best resolution in a digital photo?
Rococo
Cast concrete - modeling
42. What city had the first skyscraper?
Pointillism
Film Speed
Julio Gonzalez
Home Insurance Building in NYC
43. 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).
Greenware
Pointillism
Thomas Gainsborough
Egg Tempera
44. Rene Magritte
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Barabara Krugel
I.M. Pei
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
45. Air - dry unfired clay
Greenware
Fire clay
Tessera
Dry Point
46. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
African masks
Ceramic - Sgraffito
film speed
frisket
47. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Dry Point
Gothic Cathedrals
Tint
dry - brushing
48. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Acrylic paint
frisket
Rotunda
Croquis
49. To make a quick sketch
Turpentine
Croquis
warp
Depression era Artists
50. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Design Principles
Rice paper
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Paint Extender