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Praxis 2 Art
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1. Origin is Mayan
Stepped Pyramid Temples
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Acrylic paint
Sulfur
2. What color do two secondary colors make?
Aperture
Brown
Collage
best resolution in a digital photo?
3. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Romanesque
Pastel
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Social Realism
4. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Meyer Schapiro
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Adena Indian habitats
Water
5. Continuous frieze
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
warp
Column of Trajan
Dry Point
6. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
Color field painting artists
the golden section (architecture)
Dry Point
Islam art
7. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Depression era Artists
Mayan
Monochrome printing
vehicle
8. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
Rodin
Value
aquatint
stain glass in a cathedral
9. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
Color field painting
analogous Colors
Van Der Zee
Dagyuerrotype
10. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Tempera paint
Gel medium
Gouache
weft
11. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
chromatic gray
Dome
Baroque painting
Lotus postition
12. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Georgian Style
analogous Colors
Cement
13. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
Scoring
Tessera
A black line
Georgian Style
14. 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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15. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
Romanesque
Shutter Speed
Doric columns
African masks
16. 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
three point perspective
Design Elements
Ceramic glaze
William Blake
17. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Georgian Style
analogous Colors
A black line
Hagia Sophia
18. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
value
three point perspective
Neoclassical
vehicle
19. What city had the first skyscraper?
Artist Proof
aquatint
Julio Gonzalez
Home Insurance Building in NYC
20. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Embroidery
Thomas Gainsborough
Barabara Krugel
Islam art
21. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Chiaroscuro
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Lotus postition
Water
22. To make a quick sketch
Social Realism
Croquis
Michelangelo
Shade
23. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Esquisse
Rotunda
Design Principles
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
24. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Stoneware
Grisaille
African Benin Sculputure
Aperture
25. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Ceramic glaze
Georgian Style
Isocephaly
modeling
26. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Gouache
scumbling
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Ceramic glaze
27. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Parchment
Meyer Schapiro
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Dry Point
28. The central area of a church
three point perspective
scumbling
dry - brushing
nave
29. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Embroidery
Michelangelo
Monochrome printing
Pop artists
30. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
wedging the clay
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Facing forward and stiff
three point perspective
31. A painting medium in which pigment is mixed with water - soluble glutinous materials such as size or egg yolk. Also called poster color - poster paint.
Tempera paint
best resolution in a digital photo?
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
32. 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
Forms of Charcoal
Appropriation Art
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Collage
33. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Lotus postition
Adena Indian habitats
Tint
Forms of Charcoal
34. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Brushed used in oil painting
Dome
Brown
Corinthian columns
35. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Equipment used in oil painting
Column of Trajan
36. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Known Rodin prints
Artist Proof
Fire clay
nave
37. 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
Bas
CMYK
Social Murals
38. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Impasto
Design Elements
intermediate colors
Romantic Era
39. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Enameling
Depression art
gesso
40. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
kinds of stones for stone carving
gouache
Photogravure
weft
41. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
scumbling
Known Rodin prints
Photogravure
Motif
42. 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
slip
Embroidery
Collage
43. 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
Degas and Cassett
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Jewelry tools
44. 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
Jewelry tools
Shutter Speed
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
45. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
aquatint
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Mississippian
Forms of Charcoal
46. Known by its massive quality - its thick walls - round arches - sturdy piers - groin vaults - large towers and decorative arcading. Each building has clearly defined forms and they are frequently of very regular - symmetrical plan so that the overall
intermediate colors
three point perspective
Romanesque Cathedrals
Equipment used in oil painting
47. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Pumice
wedging the clay
Armature
African masks
48. Most common oil in oil paints
Linseed oil
megalith
kinds of stones for stone carving
Used to protect pastel artwork
49. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Value
dry - brushing
Tessera
scumbling
50. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Rococo
Mayan
Hagia Sophia