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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. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Gothic Cathedrals
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Barabara Krugel
Equipment used in oil painting
2. Who said ' less is more'?
Grisaille
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Design Principles
Egg Tempera
3. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Tapestry
Shutter Speed
vehicle
'fat over lean'
4. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Cement
three point perspective
Stoneware
Forms of Charcoal
5. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
Palace of Versaille
film speed
Ionic columns
A black line
6. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
frisket
Design Principles
Isocephaly
7. Huge stones
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Bas
megalith
8. rayons resistant to what?
Carving Tools
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Depth of Field
Water
9. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Rotunda
Encaustic
Charcoal pen
Albert Durer
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
three point perspective
Croquis
Pointillism
Color field painting artists
11. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
Tapestry
wedging the clay
intermediate colors
Tempera paint
12. A German performance artist - sculptor - installation artist - graphic artist - art theorist and pedagogue of art. Artwork: Performance : How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare
Joseph Beuys
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Meyer Schapiro
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
13. ...
megalith
Brown
Joseph Beuys
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
14. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Photogravure
Isocephaly
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Linear perspective
15. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Fire clay
value
Neoclassical
wedging the clay
16. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
17. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
three point perspective
the golden section (architecture)
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Pop artists
18. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Wedging
slip
Safety glasses
Gothic Cathedrals
19. Fix
Stoneware
Ionic columns
Used to protect pastel artwork
Principle of Art
20. 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.
Photorealism
Describe the process of fresco
Frottage
Corinthian columns
21. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Loom
vehicle
Value
Yarn
22. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
weft
Armature
Shutter Speed
23. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
vehicle
modeling
kinds of stones for stone carving
Film Speed
24. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
Color field painting artists
Rabbit Skin Glue
Michelangelo
Romanesque Cathedrals
25. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Describe the process of fresco
Social Murals
Principle of Art
Pumice
26. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Loom
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Armature
Appropriation Art
27. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Japanese art and buildings
Albert Durer
Photorealism
best resolution in a digital photo?
28. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Yarn
Depth of Field
Meyer Schapiro
Thomas Gainsborough
29. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
A black line
The Renaissance
Islam art
Describe the process of fresco
30. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
megalith
Neoclassical
Barabara Krugel
Linseed oil
31. Hard - dense firebrick generally used only in high - stress areas of kiln (floor - burner ports - flues - bagwall) and for corrosive firing processes (salt - soda - wood).
Islam art
Linear perspective
Hardbrick
Carving Tools
32. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Film Speed
Doric columns
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Gouache
33. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
chromatic gray
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Cast concrete - modeling
Tempera paint
34. 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.
scumbling
the golden section (architecture)
Trompe - l'oil
Romanesque
35. 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
'fat over lean'
Michelangelo
Design Elements
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
36. The laying of paint thickly
the golden section (architecture)
Impasto
frisket
Principle of Art
37. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Tapestry
Hagia Sophia
Rabbit Skin Glue
film speed
38. 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
Impasto
Albert Durer
Degas and Cassett
the golden section (architecture)
39. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
Stepped Pyramid Temples
kinds of stones for stone carving
weft
dry - brushing
40. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Pastel
Isocephaly
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
constructed the Spiral Jetty
41. Rocks - pebbles etc - 'a hole can it self have as much shape meaning as a solid mass. The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation. The hole connects one side to the other - making it immediately more three - dimensional. A hole can i
Another term used for buddhist temple
'fat over lean'
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Thomas Gainsborough
42. A dominant idea or central theme
Design Principles
Rembrandt
Linear perspective
Motif
43. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
binder
Georgian Style
intermediate colors
gouache
44. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Michelangelo
Rough paper
The Renaissance
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
45. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
Collage
Cement
Bas
Lotus postition
46. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
value
Cement
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Forms of Charcoal
47. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
Gouache
Carving Tools
The Renaissance
A black line
48. Used in water printing
Romanesque
The Renaissance
intaglio
Acrylic paint
49. What is another work for low relief?
Van Der Zee
Frottage
Palace of Versaille
Bas
50. The art of working raised and ornamental designs in threads of silk - cotton - gold - silver - or other material - upon any woven fabric - leather - paper - etc. - with a needle.
Paint Extender
Adena Indian habitats
Embroidery
Romanesque Cathedrals