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Praxis 2 Art
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1. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Social Murals
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
balance
Collage
2. 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
Gothic Cathedrals
Rodin
Carving Tools
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
3. 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
Georgian Style
the golden section (architecture)
Doric columns
Rodin
4. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
Egg Tempera
Doric columns
gesso
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
5. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
Van Der Zee
dry - brushing
warp
Jewelry tools
6. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
African masks
three point perspective
Forms of Charcoal
value
7. 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.
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Chiaroscuro
Film Speed
Stoneware properties
8. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Turpentine
Equipment used in oil painting
Greenware
9. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Appropriation Art
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Neoclassical
10. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Photorealism
Depth of Field
the golden section (architecture)
Thomas Gainsborough
11. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Sfumato
Turpentine
Social Realism
12. 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.
Julio Gonzalez
scumbling
Baroque painting
Water
13. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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14. 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
wedging the clay
Turpentine
William Blake
Gouache
15. 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.
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Sulfur
Tint
CMYK
16. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Emphasis
Environmental Art
Scoring
Michelangelo
17. Who said ' less is more'?
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Yarn
Collage
Frida Kahlo
18. 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.
Depth of Field
I.M. Pei
Photorealism
Acrylic paint
19. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Value
intaglio
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Describe the process of fresco
20. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Adena Indian habitats
best resolution in a digital photo?
Enameling
Tenebrism
21. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Dome
Jewelry tools
Motif
Appropriation Art
22. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Palace of Versaille
Mayan
Equipment used in oil painting
Tessera
23. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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24. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
I.M. Pei
Another term used for buddhist temple
Carving Tools
Paint Extender
25. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Mississippian
Linear perspective
Dagyuerrotype
David Hockney
26. Air - dry unfired clay
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Greenware
Romantic Era
Tapestry
27. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Tapestry
Tapestry
Rough paper
28. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Charcoal pen
Brushed used in oil painting
chromatic gray
29. Symmetrical balance
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30. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Home Insurance Building in NYC
nave
Elements of Art
31. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
Design Principles
Japanese art and buildings
Neoclassical
'fat over lean'
32. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Enameling
Romantic Era
Thomas Gainsborough
nave
33. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Turpentine
Frottage
Rembrandt
Basquiat
34. Origin is Mayan
Romanesque
Collage
wedging the clay
Stepped Pyramid Temples
35. 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
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Crenellation
Aperture
Brushed used in oil painting
36. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
binder
Rotunda
Hardbrick
Depression art
37. Known by its massive quality - its thick walls - round arches - sturdy piers - groin vaults - large towers and decorative arcading. Each building has clearly defined forms and they are frequently of very regular - symmetrical plan so that the overall
Romanesque Cathedrals
Hagia Sophia
Jewelry tools
Romantic Era
38. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Romantic Era
Bas
Ionic columns
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
39. What is another work for low relief?
aquatint
Rococo
Rembrandt
Bas
40. To make a quick sketch
Croquis
nave
Rough paper
Meyer Schapiro
41. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Chiaroscuro
Brushed used in oil painting
Tint
Depth of Field
42. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Forms of Charcoal
Safety glasses
Georgian Style
Armature
43. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Brown
Tempera paint
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Depression era Artists
44. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
vehicle
Albert Durer
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
slip
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
weft
Pointillism
Charcoal pen
aquatint
46. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Isocephaly
Georgian Style
Film Speed
constructed the Spiral Jetty
47. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Yarn
Romanesque
CMYK
Degas and Cassett
48. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
Mayan
film speed
Gouache
Social Realism
49. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Artists associated with Pointillism
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Brushed used in oil painting
Tessera
50. What color do two secondary colors make?
William Blake
African Benin Sculputure
Brown
Barabara Krugel