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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Mayan
Equipment used in oil painting
Cast concrete - modeling
Scoring
2. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Thomas Gainsborough
Assemblage
Esquisse
Dry Point
3. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Scoring
Ceramic glaze
Tempera paint
Crenellation
4. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
intermediate colors
Thomas Gainsborough
Equipment used in oil painting
Enameling
5. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Photorealism
Social Murals
kinds of stones for stone carving
Impasto
6. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
gouache
balance
Artists associated with Pointillism
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
7. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Gel medium
Pumice
film speed
Scoring
8. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
Linseed oil
vehicle
Pointillism
Dome
9. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Forms of Charcoal
vehicle
Japanese art and buildings
Enameling
10. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
The post - and - lintel system
Tint
film speed
Rice paper
11. Focused on the depiction of patterns and Arabic calligraphy - rather than on figures - because it is feared by many Muslims that the depiction of the human form is idolatry and thereby a sin against God - forbidden in the Qur'an.
Dagyuerrotype
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Islam art
Basic Elements of Sculpture
12. Most common oil in oil paints
Linseed oil
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Photogravure
A black line
13. 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.
Rodin
Social Murals
scumbling
Artist Proof
14. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
value
Cement
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Parchment
15. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Enameling
Frottage
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Gel medium
16. 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
Michelangelo
Brushed used in oil painting
'fat over lean'
William Blake
17. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?
Islam art
Sulfur
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Rice paper
18. 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
Value
Pointillism
Kinetic art
Mayan
19. 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
Greenware
Color field painting artists
CMYK
20. The laying of paint thickly
Impasto
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Wedging
Basquiat
21. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Dome
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Brushed used in oil painting
Chiaroscuro
22. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Hagia Sophia
Dome
Monochrome printing
Rice paper
23. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
Appropriation Art
gesso
Mississippian
Ceramic glaze
24. Is a circle - shaped opening in a lens (a hole - really) through which light passes to strike the film. The size of the aperture is expressed as an f - number - like f/8 or f/11.
Brushed used in oil painting
Sulfur
Aperture
Forms of Charcoal
25. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
modeling
Ionic columns
Tessera
Social Realism
26. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Equipment used in oil painting
Rococo
Sulfur
Rotunda
27. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Assemblage
Bas
Corinthian columns
binder
28. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Tessera
weft
Pop artists
Thomas Gainsborough
29. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Environmental Art
Grisaille
Social Realism
Women artist of the 19th century
30. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
constructed the Spiral Jetty
aquatint
stain glass in a cathedral
31. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
Julio Gonzalez
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
intermediate colors
32. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Baroque painting
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Sulfur
Ionic columns
33. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Rotunda
Rice paper
intaglio
aquatint
34. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
analogous Colors
Equipment used in oil painting
Croquis
Turpentine
35. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
Corinthian columns
Film Speed
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Frottage
36. 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.
Albert Durer
Column of Trajan
David Hockney
Stoneware properties
37. 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).
Tint
analogous Colors
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Egg Tempera
38. Came in response to the darkness and heaviness of Baroque art - but did continue many of the ideals specified during the 17th century. Rococo related much more to decorative shapes as well as the natural and organic. Swirling shapes and asymmetrical
Rococo
Known Rodin prints
rhythm
Value
39. rayons resistant to what?
Frida Kahlo
Water
Safety glasses
Gothic Cathedrals
40. Fix
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Used to protect pastel artwork
Rotunda
41. 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
gesso
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Turpentine
Tint
42. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
warp
gouache
Pointillism
Stoneware
43. ...
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Baroque painting
Water
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
44. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
Encaustic
three point perspective
Islam art
Palace of Versaille
45. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
David Hockney
Camera Obscura
wedging the clay
Tempera paint
46. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Frottage
Rough paper
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Dry Point
47. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Lotus postition
Known Rodin prints
Gel medium
48. What color do two secondary colors make?
Armature
Brown
Jewelry tools
Environmental Art
49. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Forms of Charcoal
Isocephaly
Ionic columns
Wood and bronze
50. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Crenellation
Frottage
Loom
Fire clay