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Praxis 2 Art
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1. 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).
Armature
Facing forward and stiff
Hardbrick
Equipment used in oil painting
2. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?
Sulfur
Photorealism
The post - and - lintel system
Film Speed
3. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
The post - and - lintel system
intermediate colors
Monochrome printing
Depression art
4. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Ionic columns
Tint
African masks
Mayan
5. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
film speed
Column of Trajan
Principle of Art
three point perspective
6. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Trompe - l'oil
Collage
Assemblage
Rough paper
7. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
nave
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Emphasis
constructed the Spiral Jetty
8. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
Jewelry tools
analogous Colors
I.M. Pei
Grisaille
9. To make a quick sketch
Paint Extender
Rodin
Croquis
Depression era Artists
10. Gouge and chisel
Carving Tools
Tenebrism
Equipment used in oil painting
The Renaissance
11. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
Georgian Style
The Renaissance
The post - and - lintel system
Camera Obscura
12. An art and design principle concerned with the arrangement of one or more elements in a work of art so that they appear symmetrical (even) or asymmetrical (uneven) in design and proportion.
balance
Film Speed
Basic Elements of Sculpture
binder
13. 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.
Monochrome printing
CMYK
Barabara Krugel
Emphasis
14. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Romanesque Cathedrals
Degas and Cassett
Loom
Assemblage
15. Known for stone. The term was invented by 19th century art historians - especially for Romanesque architecture - which retained many basic features of Roman architectural style - most notably round - headed arches - but also barrel vaults - apses - a
Romanesque
Doric columns
balance
Artist Proof
16. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Pointillism
intermediate colors
Film Speed
17. A dominant idea or central theme
Degas and Cassett
Motif
Crenellation
Chiaroscuro
18. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
Artists associated with Pointillism
Women artist of the 19th century
gouache
Tapestry
19. Symmetrical balance
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20. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Rotunda
Paint Extender
Rabbit Skin Glue
21. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Women artist of the 19th century
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
intermediate colors
Printmaking Techniques
22. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
Greenware
Lotus postition
modeling
vehicle
23. 3X 5300 pixels
Rotunda
best resolution in a digital photo?
Water
constructed the Spiral Jetty
24. Possin was a French painter in the classical style.Themes of tragedy and death are prevalent in Poussin's work.[13] Et in Arcadia ego - a subject he painted twice (second version is seen at right) - exemplifies his cerebral approach. In this composit
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25. 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'.
scumbling
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Albert Durer
stain glass in a cathedral
26. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
aquatint
stain glass in a cathedral
Croquis
Depression art
27. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Printmaking Techniques
Design Elements
Ceramic - Sgraffito
best resolution in a digital photo?
28. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
Enameling
The post - and - lintel system
Parchment
African masks
29. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Rotunda
Dagyuerrotype
Linear perspective
Armature
30. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Lotus postition
Known Rodin prints
Dagyuerrotype
Batik
31. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Tempera paint
Van Der Zee
Used to protect pastel artwork
Women artist of the 19th century
32. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
The Renaissance
rhythm
Kinetic art
Albert Durer
33. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
frisket
Doric columns
Women artist of the 19th century
Brushed used in oil painting
34. Air - dry unfired clay
Charcoal pen
Greenware
Wood and bronze
Batik
35. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Romantic Era
Hagia Sophia
Camera Obscura
Tint
36. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
Depression art
three point perspective
Home Insurance Building in NYC
frisket
37. rayons resistant to what?
Batik
Rabbit Skin Glue
rhythm
Water
38. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
warp
Depression era Artists
Hardbrick
Croquis
39. The central area of a church
nave
Monochrome printing
Yarn
Corinthian columns
40. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Tapestry
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Thomas Gainsborough
Assemblage
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
Armature
Georgian Style
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
William Blake
42. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
'fat over lean'
intaglio
chromatic gray
Describe the process of fresco
43. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Film Speed
Meyer Schapiro
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
44. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Depth of Field
Equipment used in oil painting
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Sulfur
45. A painting technique in which - as the name suggests - a little bit of paint is put on a dry brush. When applied - it produces a broken - scratchy effect.
dry - brushing
Printmaking Techniques
Carving Tools
Islam art
46. 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
African masks
Tapestry
Hardbrick
47. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Van Der Zee
warp
Thomas Gainsborough
Photorealism
48. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
Linseed oil
A black line
Dome
Baroque painting
49. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Principle of Art
Gel medium
Safety glasses
Color field painting artists
50. 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
'fat over lean'
Frottage
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Doric columns
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