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Praxis 2 Art
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1. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Michelangelo
binder
Rotunda
Rembrandt
2. Fix
gesso
Principle of Art
Used to protect pastel artwork
Rembrandt
3. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Corinthian columns
Sfumato
Mayan
Greenware
4. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
frisket
Aperture
warp
kinds of stones for stone carving
5. The central area of a church
Van Der Zee
nave
Ceramic glaze
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
6. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Printmaking Techniques
Georgian Style
kinds of stones for stone carving
Adena Indian habitats
7. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
best resolution in a digital photo?
Bas
Facing forward and stiff
Social Murals
8. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Social Murals
William Blake
Sfumato
Romantic Era
9. Air - dry unfired clay
William Blake
Social Murals
Acrylic paint
Greenware
10. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Thomas Gainsborough
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
weft
11. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Dagyuerrotype
Dome
analogous Colors
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
12. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Grisaille
Safety glasses
Design Elements
Kinetic art
13. 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.
Egg Tempera
Photorealism
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Meyer Schapiro
14. Used her life experiences into her artwork - including her marriage - her miscarriages - and her numerous operations - works often are characterized by their stark portrayals of pain - combined elements of the classic religious Mexican tradition with
Greenware
Frida Kahlo
Safety glasses
Depth of Field
15. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
Turpentine
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Impasto
Stoneware
16. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
Fire clay
Stoneware
Corinthian columns
Brushed used in oil painting
17. Woven wall hangings.
Dry Point
Isocephaly
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Tapestry
18. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Monochrome printing
modeling
Yarn
dry - brushing
19. 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
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Ionic columns
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Scoring
20. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
Linseed oil
Hardbrick
Depression era Artists
Film Speed
21. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
balance
gesso
Egg Tempera
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
22. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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23. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Linear perspective
Albert Durer
Ceramic glaze
24. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
best resolution in a digital photo?
aquatint
Cement
Linseed oil
25. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Hardbrick
Emphasis
Women artist of the 19th century
Albert Durer
26. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Women artist of the 19th century
Wedging
Batik
Ionic columns
27. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
intaglio
Corinthian columns
A black line
Rough paper
28. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Forms of Charcoal
kinds of stones for stone carving
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
African masks
29. 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
Social Realism
Enameling
Kinetic art
30. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
Pumice
Describe the process of fresco
warp
Degas and Cassett
31. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
Social Murals
Scoring
film speed
gouache
32. Who made large portraits of friends?
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Loom
David Hockney
Japanese art and buildings
33. 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
Depression era Artists
Romanesque
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Sfumato
34. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Rodin
Paint Extender
African Benin Sculputure
Collage
35. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Rice paper
best resolution in a digital photo?
Armature
36. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Basquiat
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Rodin
Photogravure
37. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
Pumice
Safety glasses
wedging the clay
Cement
38. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
Depression era Artists
film speed
Barabara Krugel
Julio Gonzalez
39. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Equipment used in oil painting
Degas and Cassett
Environmental Art
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
40. 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
Trompe - l'oil
Describe the process of fresco
Motif
Rococo
41. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
nave
Printmaking Techniques
megalith
Designed the Barcelona chair
42. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Column of Trajan
Assemblage
Hardbrick
Albert Durer
43. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
intermediate colors
Lotus postition
Bas
The post - and - lintel system
44. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Armature
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Designed the Barcelona chair
Barabara Krugel
45. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
Forms of Charcoal
weft
Greenware
Column of Trajan
46. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Value
Armature
Artists associated with Pointillism
Describe the process of fresco
47. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Gel medium
Another term used for buddhist temple
Abstract Expressionist Artists
48. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
A black line
Greenware
Acrylic paint
Batik
49. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
intaglio
Turpentine
The Renaissance
Baroque painting
50. Gray made by mixing complements
Ceramic glaze
chromatic gray
Gel medium
Parchment