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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. Origin is Mayan
Jewelry tools
Rococo
Brown
Stepped Pyramid Temples
2. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Dome
Tapestry
Chiaroscuro
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
3. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Michelangelo
Romantic Era
Printmaking Techniques
Shade
4. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Rembrandt
Barabara Krugel
warp
Joseph Beuys
5. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Facing forward and stiff
stain glass in a cathedral
Camera Obscura
Monochrome printing
6. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Shutter Speed
Artists associated with Pointillism
Yarn
Albert Durer
7. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Film Speed
Monochrome printing
aquatint
Frida Kahlo
8. Meaning to rub a crayon or other tool onto paper or other material - which is placed onto a textured surface - in order to create the texture of that surface on the paper.
Fire clay
Frottage
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Acrylic paint
9. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Romanesque
Rough paper
Islam art
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
10. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Parchment
Printmaking Techniques
gesso
11. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
Shade
slip
Gothic Cathedrals
Color field painting artists
12. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Chiaroscuro
David Hockney
Gouache
Appropriation Art
13. 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
Rodin
Tapestry
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Rough paper
14. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston
Tenebrism
Wood and bronze
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Michelangelo
15. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
Romantic Era
balance
Camera Obscura
warp
16. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Armature
Ionic columns
Hagia Sophia
Rodin
17. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Gothic Cathedrals
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Cast concrete - modeling
frisket
18. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
Scoring
three point perspective
Social Murals
Corinthian columns
19. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Batik
Chiaroscuro
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Artist Proof
20. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
vehicle
Linseed oil
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Wood and bronze
21. To make a quick sketch
Tessera
Shutter Speed
David Hockney
Croquis
22. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
Thomas Gainsborough
kinds of stones for stone carving
rhythm
Michelangelo
23. 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
Meyer Schapiro
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Frida Kahlo
Aperture
24. What is another work for low relief?
Adena Indian habitats
Gothic Cathedrals
Bas
Cement
25. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
gouache
Gothic Cathedrals
Hagia Sophia
Social Murals
26. 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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27. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Japanese art and buildings
Frottage
Artist Proof
Used to protect pastel artwork
28. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Environmental Art
Facing forward and stiff
Van Der Zee
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
29. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
Degas and Cassett
weft
analogous Colors
Describe the process of fresco
30. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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31. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Collage
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Yarn
Printmaking Techniques
32. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Camera Obscura
film speed
chromatic gray
33. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Hardbrick
Dagyuerrotype
rhythm
34. Woven wall hangings.
Tapestry
Pointillism
Rough paper
CMYK
35. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?
Meyer Schapiro
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Sulfur
gesso
36. Who made large portraits of friends?
Gothic Cathedrals
Frottage
David Hockney
Photogravure
37. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
stain glass in a cathedral
Neoclassical
Turpentine
38. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Women artist of the 19th century
Jewelry tools
Thomas Gainsborough
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
39. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Linseed oil
Isocephaly
Color field painting
Impasto
40. 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
Romanesque Cathedrals
Meyer Schapiro
Romanesque
Tint
41. Gouge and chisel
Embroidery
Carving Tools
Value
intermediate colors
42. Cyan - Magenta - Yellow - Key (blacK). This ystem is used for printing. For mixing of pigments - it is better to use the secondary colours - since they mix subtractively instead of additively.
CMYK
Acrylic paint
Tempera paint
kinds of stones for stone carving
43. 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.
Corinthian columns
Albert Durer
Film Speed
Egg Tempera
44. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Depth of Field
Degas and Cassett
Ionic columns
The Renaissance
45. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Emphasis
Hagia Sophia
Rodin
46. The laying of paint thickly
Depression art
Turpentine
best resolution in a digital photo?
Impasto
47. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
intermediate colors
The Renaissance
Tapestry
Safety glasses
48. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Equipment used in oil painting
Kinetic art
Degas and Cassett
Meyer Schapiro
49. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Isocephaly
Social Realism
African masks
Shutter Speed
50. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
The Renaissance
nave
Adena Indian habitats
Water