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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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1. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Turpentine
Tapestry
nave
Environmental Art
2. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
Color field painting
weft
vehicle
Armature
3. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
Brown
wedging the clay
balance
Emphasis
4. Robert Smithson
modeling
Depression era Artists
Rotunda
constructed the Spiral Jetty
5. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
I.M. Pei
Chiaroscuro
Rabbit Skin Glue
6. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Elements of Art
gouache
Doric columns
Meyer Schapiro
7. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
intaglio
Joseph Beuys
Dagyuerrotype
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
8. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
binder
Equipment used in oil painting
Corinthian columns
Islam art
9. Who said ' less is more'?
Tapestry
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
chromatic gray
10. Huge stones
Rice paper
megalith
Palace of Versaille
Rotunda
11. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
vehicle
intermediate colors
Doric columns
Environmental Art
12. 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
value
Brown
best resolution in a digital photo?
the golden section (architecture)
13. The central area of a church
Abstract Expressionist Artists
scumbling
nave
Romantic Era
14. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
frisket
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Turpentine
15. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Grisaille
Frida Kahlo
Column of Trajan
Camera Obscura
16. 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
Monochrome printing
Facing forward and stiff
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
balance
17. 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
Rococo
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Rembrandt
Carving Tools
18. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
Egg Tempera
warp
Isocephaly
African masks
19. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Sulfur
Julio Gonzalez
Basquiat
Egg Tempera
20. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Stoneware
Artists associated with Pointillism
Yarn
Printmaking Techniques
21. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?
Stoneware properties
Sulfur
dry - brushing
Van Der Zee
22. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Artists associated with Pointillism
Monochrome printing
gouache
Equipment used in oil painting
23. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Paint Extender
Aperture
Turpentine
Motif
24. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Ceramic glaze
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Basquiat
Croquis
25. 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
Describe the process of fresco
binder
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
26. 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
Sfumato
The Renaissance
Isocephaly
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
27. 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
Romanesque
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Sfumato
Yarn
28. 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.
Degas and Cassett
Gothic Cathedrals
Hagia Sophia
Photorealism
29. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Linear perspective
A black line
Pumice
Linseed oil
30. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light. More sensitive (faster) films have higher ISO numbers and require less exposure in order to make a properly - exposed picture.
Yarn
Acrylic paint
Film Speed
modeling
31. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
nave
Design Principles
Wood and bronze
Monochrome printing
32. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Stoneware properties
Known Rodin prints
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Social Realism
33. Made out of Metal
Camera Obscura
African Benin Sculputure
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Loom
34. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
Tenebrism
Tapestry
intaglio
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
35. 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.
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Egg Tempera
Kinetic art
Sfumato
36. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Kinetic art
Sfumato
Degas and Cassett
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
37. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
Sfumato
intaglio
Dome
balance
38. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Equipment used in oil painting
Acrylic paint
Romantic Era
three point perspective
39. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
chromatic gray
A black line
Used to protect pastel artwork
Enameling
40. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Cast concrete - modeling
Shade
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Stoneware
41. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Designed the Barcelona chair
Social Murals
Loom
Rodin
42. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
balance
The Renaissance
Titan's key works
wedging the clay
43. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Lotus postition
Shade
Baroque painting
Sulfur
44. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
Jewelry tools
megalith
Safety glasses
best resolution in a digital photo?
45. A form of painting in which tiny dots of primary - colors are used to generate secondary colors. It is very similar to Divisionism - except that where Divisionism is concerned with color theory - Pointillism is more focused on the specific style of b
Batik
wedging the clay
Degas and Cassett
Pointillism
46. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Women artist of the 19th century
Tempera paint
Paint Extender
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
47. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Elements of Art
Trompe - l'oil
value
Egg Tempera
48. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Depth of Field
analogous Colors
weft
David Hockney
49. 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
Romantic Era
Frida Kahlo
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Tapestry
50. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Albert Durer
Esquisse
Photorealism
Tempera paint