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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Depression era Artists
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Pumice
2. 3X 5300 pixels
best resolution in a digital photo?
Mayan
film speed
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
3. AP on an art product means what
Artist Proof
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Depth of Field
Design Elements
4. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
intaglio
stain glass in a cathedral
Kinetic art
I.M. Pei
5. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Principle of Art
Photorealism
Linear perspective
Rotunda
6. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
binder
Principle of Art
Mississippian
the golden section (architecture)
7. 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.
Chiaroscuro
Pop artists
Frottage
Wedging
8. 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.
Another term used for buddhist temple
Scoring
chromatic gray
Tempera paint
9. 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
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Photogravure
Sulfur
10. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Jewelry tools
Chiaroscuro
Artists associated with Pointillism
Appropriation Art
11. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Pop artists
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Safety glasses
African masks
12. What is another work for low relief?
warp
Bas
David Hockney
Hardbrick
13. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Croquis
Bas
Jewelry tools
Photogravure
14. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Trompe - l'oil
Gouache
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Grisaille
15. 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.
Color field painting artists
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Stoneware properties
Albert Durer
16. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Yarn
Collage
Depth of Field
vehicle
17. 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'.
Basquiat
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Corinthian columns
Describe the process of fresco
18. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Tapestry
Van Der Zee
Women artist of the 19th century
Environmental Art
19. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Grisaille
Cement
'fat over lean'
Trompe - l'oil
20. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
modeling
Trompe - l'oil
Pumice
Wedging
21. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Tenebrism
Pumice
Turpentine
22. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Home Insurance Building in NYC
megalith
Forms of Charcoal
Fire clay
23. 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.
Film Speed
I.M. Pei
Social Realism
Michelangelo
24. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Monochrome printing
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Scoring
25. In oil painting - the technique of brushing one layer of paint on top of another in a way that reveals some of the under color.
African Benin Sculputure
Van Der Zee
Basquiat
scumbling
26. 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).
Egg Tempera
Jewelry tools
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Sfumato
27. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
stain glass in a cathedral
Degas and Cassett
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Design Principles
28. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Tenebrism
Dome
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Michelangelo
29. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Facing forward and stiff
Assemblage
wedging the clay
Barabara Krugel
30. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Forms of Charcoal
Gothic Cathedrals
analogous Colors
31. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Egg Tempera
Photogravure
Tenebrism
Social Murals
32. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
Hagia Sophia
Islam art
Stoneware properties
Turpentine
33. Pagoda
gouache
Another term used for buddhist temple
Sulfur
A black line
34. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Croquis
Rembrandt
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
The post - and - lintel system
35. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Chiaroscuro
Armature
Romanesque Cathedrals
Scoring
36. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
binder
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Aperture
Known Rodin prints
37. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Basic Elements of Sculpture
value
Rabbit Skin Glue
38. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Rice paper
Stoneware
Tint
39. Air - dry unfired clay
Stepped Pyramid Temples
The post - and - lintel system
Greenware
Linseed oil
40. Symmetrical balance
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41. 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
Islam art
Baroque painting
intaglio
Pastel
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.
Social Murals
CMYK
Stoneware properties
Printmaking Techniques
43. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
CMYK
The Renaissance
Used to protect pastel artwork
Rabbit Skin Glue
44. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Neoclassical
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Van Der Zee
gouache
45. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Forms of Charcoal
Georgian Style
frisket
Doric columns
46. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Trompe - l'oil
gesso
Jewelry tools
Environmental Art
47. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
I.M. Pei
Baroque painting
Depression art
film speed
48. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
Stoneware
Another term used for buddhist temple
Jewelry tools
Sfumato
49. To make a quick sketch
binder
Croquis
Ceramic glaze
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
50. A dominant idea or central theme
Shutter Speed
Motif
Corinthian columns
Parchment