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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
Armature
African masks
Grisaille
slip
2. 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
Baroque painting
Mississippian
Tint
3. 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.
Dome
Tempera paint
best resolution in a digital photo?
Equipment used in oil painting
4. 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.
Another term used for buddhist temple
Sfumato
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
scumbling
5. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Kinetic art
Facing forward and stiff
Palace of Versaille
6. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Wedging
Mississippian
Shade
The post - and - lintel system
7. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Grisaille
Depression era Artists
Sulfur
Designed the Barcelona chair
8. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
wedging the clay
Palace of Versaille
kinds of stones for stone carving
9. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Isocephaly
Stoneware
Color field painting
Gouache
10. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
three point perspective
Rembrandt
Collage
11. Origin is Mayan
Greenware
Camera Obscura
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Stepped Pyramid Temples
12. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Trompe - l'oil
wedging the clay
Armature
Pumice
13. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
weft
Encaustic
Linear perspective
David Hockney
14. 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.
Abstract Expressionist Artists
intermediate colors
Aperture
Mississippian
15. Gouge and chisel
Acrylic paint
Design Elements
Carving Tools
Encaustic
16. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Batik
Camera Obscura
Enameling
Corinthian columns
17. Gray made by mixing complements
Gouache
Photogravure
chromatic gray
Enameling
18. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Elements of Art
kinds of stones for stone carving
Michelangelo
Photorealism
19. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Stoneware
Pumice
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Forms of Charcoal
20. Most common oil in oil paints
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Linseed oil
warp
Design Elements
21. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
chromatic gray
Film Speed
Gel medium
Julio Gonzalez
22. 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.
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Albert Durer
Dome
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
23. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
Another term used for buddhist temple
Turpentine
Trompe - l'oil
Value
24. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Pastel
Grisaille
Aperture
Artist Proof
25. Who made large portraits of friends?
Elements of Art
Georgian Style
Rice paper
David Hockney
26. Rene Magritte
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Lotus postition
Mississippian
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
27. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
weft
Palace of Versaille
Romanesque
Safety glasses
28. What color do two secondary colors make?
Isocephaly
Barabara Krugel
Loom
Brown
29. 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.
Used to protect pastel artwork
CMYK
Environmental Art
Shade
30. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
Elements of Art
three point perspective
I.M. Pei
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
31. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Photogravure
Encaustic
Collage
Batik
32. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Trompe - l'oil
Camera Obscura
dry - brushing
Thomas Gainsborough
33. What city had the first skyscraper?
Adena Indian habitats
Crenellation
Pop artists
Home Insurance Building in NYC
34. 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
The post - and - lintel system
vehicle
Michelangelo
Artist Proof
35. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Wood and bronze
Known Rodin prints
Rabbit Skin Glue
Joseph Beuys
36. rayons resistant to what?
Stoneware properties
Pastel
Water
Palace of Versaille
37. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Social Realism
Loom
Neoclassical
Parchment
38. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Designed the Barcelona chair
Shutter Speed
warp
rhythm
39. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
Photogravure
Parchment
The Renaissance
Trompe - l'oil
40. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Baroque painting
best resolution in a digital photo?
Romantic Era
Rodin
41. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
intaglio
Tessera
wedging the clay
Encaustic
42. The central area of a church
Gothic Cathedrals
Barabara Krugel
nave
Linear perspective
43. 3X 5300 pixels
slip
Mayan
The post - and - lintel system
best resolution in a digital photo?
44. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Printmaking Techniques
Armature
Artists associated with Pointillism
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
45. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
nave
Safety glasses
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Egg Tempera
46. Made out of Metal
Brushed used in oil painting
Depression art
Wedging
African Benin Sculputure
47. 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.
kinds of stones for stone carving
Film Speed
Turpentine
Value
48. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Georgian Style
Forms of Charcoal
Cast concrete - modeling
Meyer Schapiro
49. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Palace of Versaille
Thomas Gainsborough
Rotunda
Home Insurance Building in NYC
50. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Hagia Sophia
Greenware
Film Speed
Degas and Cassett