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Praxis 2 Art
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1. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Carving Tools
Value
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
2. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
binder
Palace of Versaille
Elements of Art
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
3. rayons resistant to what?
Joseph Beuys
intermediate colors
Water
Basquiat
4. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Forms of Charcoal
Japanese art and buildings
Pointillism
Doric columns
5. 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
the golden section (architecture)
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Wedging
Grisaille
6. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
aquatint
Gothic Cathedrals
Wedging
vehicle
7. 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
Rembrandt
Rodin
Dry Point
Tempera paint
8. Symmetrical balance
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9. 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.
aquatint
Shutter Speed
chromatic gray
Photorealism
10. Used in water printing
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Turpentine
Acrylic paint
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
11. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
dry - brushing
Principle of Art
Greenware
Dry Point
12. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
rhythm
Turpentine
Julio Gonzalez
Isocephaly
13. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
Frottage
Principle of Art
Baroque painting
Lotus postition
14. Statuettes were mostly used for two purposes: to incarnate a spirit of the bush - and the second was to represent a spouse from the other world 'Blolo Bla' or 'Blolo Bian'.
Cast concrete - modeling
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
gouache
Tessera
15. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Social Realism
Loom
Water
Cement
16. 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
Designed the Barcelona chair
Romanesque
Shade
Brown
17. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
Bas
Rodin
aquatint
slip
18. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Shutter Speed
Color field painting artists
chromatic gray
Cement
19. Woven wall hangings.
Rodin
Loom
Tapestry
Greenware
20. 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).
Baroque painting
Egg Tempera
film speed
Esquisse
21. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Pop artists
Tempera paint
Describe the process of fresco
gesso
22. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
value
three point perspective
Tint
Hagia Sophia
23. 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.
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Frottage
Crenellation
Tenebrism
24. 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
African masks
Tapestry
Safety glasses
Tenebrism
25. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
kinds of stones for stone carving
Turpentine
Mayan
warp
26. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Color field painting
Gouache
Islam art
Tenebrism
27. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Isocephaly
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Monochrome printing
28. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
Meyer Schapiro
Frida Kahlo
Corinthian columns
Romanesque Cathedrals
29. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Degas and Cassett
Pastel
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Greenware
30. What is another work for low relief?
Bas
CMYK
balance
Corinthian columns
31. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Aperture
Islam art
Kinetic art
Known Rodin prints
32. Fix
Tint
the golden section (architecture)
Gouache
Used to protect pastel artwork
33. 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
William Blake
Jewelry tools
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Egg Tempera
34. 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
Pointillism
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Greenware
Degas and Cassett
35. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Forms of Charcoal
intermediate colors
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Adena Indian habitats
36. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
Sulfur
Cast concrete - modeling
Emphasis
three point perspective
37. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
gouache
Frida Kahlo
weft
Monochrome printing
38. Air - dry unfired clay
Loom
gouache
Greenware
Parchment
39. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Chiaroscuro
Romantic Era
Dagyuerrotype
40. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
Batik
Rococo
gesso
Depression art
41. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Cast concrete - modeling
Pastel
Monochrome printing
Doric columns
42. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Yarn
Photorealism
Pumice
Fire clay
43. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Mississippian
Shade
Mayan
Esquisse
44. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Van Der Zee
Scoring
Fire clay
Armature
45. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Brushed used in oil painting
Rococo
Chiaroscuro
Michelangelo
46. What city had the first skyscraper?
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Pumice
Neoclassical
Rabbit Skin Glue
47. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Color field painting
Water
Rotunda
Printmaking Techniques
48. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
kinds of stones for stone carving
rhythm
Film Speed
Principle of Art
49. The principle in oil painting that suggests each layer of paint should contain more oil than the one beneath. Awareness of this concept helps ensure permanence.
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50. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Romantic Era
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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