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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
slip
Equipment used in oil painting
African masks
Grisaille
2. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Isocephaly
Japanese art and buildings
Pointillism
3. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Hagia Sophia
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Kinetic art
Rembrandt
4. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Loom
stain glass in a cathedral
Known Rodin prints
Adena Indian habitats
5. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
Doric columns
Tapestry
weft
Van Der Zee
6. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Sfumato
rhythm
Dagyuerrotype
I.M. Pei
7. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
slip
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
rhythm
megalith
8. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Known Rodin prints
three point perspective
gesso
Van Der Zee
9. What is another work for low relief?
Bas
Another term used for buddhist temple
Paint Extender
Romanesque Cathedrals
10. Rene Magritte
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Brown
African Benin Sculputure
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
11. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
Appropriation Art
intermediate colors
Home Insurance Building in NYC
three point perspective
12. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Yarn
Degas and Cassett
Neoclassical
Wood and bronze
13. What city had the first skyscraper?
Aperture
Isocephaly
Romantic Era
Home Insurance Building in NYC
14. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Crenellation
Rotunda
Sfumato
Thomas Gainsborough
15. Robert Smithson
Charcoal pen
binder
Rabbit Skin Glue
constructed the Spiral Jetty
16. Came in response to Renaissance Art - ominous - otherworldly - and dark in subject. _________ art was heavily influenced by the Counter - reformation and thus more interested in dramatic scenes of saints and history paintings.Art from the Baroque per
Baroque painting
Rodin
Romanesque Cathedrals
Van Der Zee
17. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
Women artist of the 19th century
Cast concrete - modeling
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
modeling
18. 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
Palace of Versaille
Tenebrism
Isocephaly
'fat over lean'
19. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Greenware
aquatint
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Social Realism
20. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Baroque painting
Kinetic art
Batik
Pumice
21. ...
David Hockney
Appropriation Art
Women artist of the 19th century
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
22. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Design Elements
Tint
Tapestry
Sulfur
23. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
intermediate colors
Parchment
Depression art
Forms of Charcoal
24. 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
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Depth of Field
Gel medium
25. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
Neoclassical
film speed
Collage
Artist Proof
26. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Joseph Beuys
Dagyuerrotype
Doric columns
Elements of Art
27. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
Cement
Pastel
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Kinetic art
28. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Batik
modeling
Monochrome printing
Linear perspective
29. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
Pastel
Bas
Meyer Schapiro
Ceramic glaze
30. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Forms of Charcoal
Depression art
Known Rodin prints
Collage
31. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
Film Speed
Yarn
I.M. Pei
African masks
32. His versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man
Georgian Style
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Adena Indian habitats
Michelangelo
33. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Women artist of the 19th century
Frida Kahlo
Value
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
34. Neo expressionist artist - Jean - Michel Basquiat was an American painter who rose to fame in the 1980s - and was the first African - American artist to gain international acclaim. His emotionally - charged paintings gave rise to graffiti art and the
Basquiat
Known Rodin prints
Monochrome printing
stain glass in a cathedral
35. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
balance
Encaustic
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Jewelry tools
36. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Jewelry tools
A black line
Design Principles
Acrylic paint
37. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Tempera paint
Albert Durer
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Gouache
38. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Printmaking Techniques
Rough paper
Gothic Cathedrals
Elements of Art
39. 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
Pointillism
Esquisse
Color field painting artists
40. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Chiaroscuro
Designed the Barcelona chair
Adena Indian habitats
Assemblage
41. AP on an art product means what
Artist Proof
Shutter Speed
aquatint
intermediate colors
42. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Forms of Charcoal
Romantic Era
Thomas Gainsborough
Palace of Versaille
43. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Grisaille
Pumice
Rough paper
Home Insurance Building in NYC
44. 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
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
megalith
Chiaroscuro
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
45. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Social Murals
Linear perspective
Rice paper
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
46. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Safety glasses
Rabbit Skin Glue
Julio Gonzalez
Lotus postition
47. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
gouache
Rice paper
Color field painting artists
Depth of Field
48. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
Linseed oil
slip
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Chiaroscuro
49. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Crenellation
The post - and - lintel system
Color field painting
Scoring
50. Possin was a French painter in the classical style.Themes of tragedy and death are prevalent in Poussin's work.[13] Et in Arcadia ego - a subject he painted twice (second version is seen at right) - exemplifies his cerebral approach. In this composit
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