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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Shade
Armature
Social Realism
nave
2. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Wood and bronze
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Neoclassical
Emphasis
3. 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
Degas and Cassett
African Benin Sculputure
Designed the Barcelona chair
Pointillism
4. Most common oil in oil paints
Design Principles
Dry Point
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Linseed oil
5. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Equipment used in oil painting
Camera Obscura
Assemblage
Fire clay
6. What color do two secondary colors make?
William Blake
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
A black line
Brown
7. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Turpentine
Ceramic glaze
Rough paper
constructed the Spiral Jetty
8. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Sfumato
nave
intermediate colors
Grisaille
9. 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'.
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
'fat over lean'
constructed the Spiral Jetty
the golden section (architecture)
10. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Romanesque
binder
Thomas Gainsborough
11. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Fire clay
Brown
Paint Extender
Another term used for buddhist temple
12. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Stoneware
Depression era Artists
Wood and bronze
Value
13. ...
Design Principles
Trompe - l'oil
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Mississippian
14. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Tint
Photogravure
Grisaille
Embroidery
15. 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
Aperture
megalith
Gel medium
16. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Stoneware properties
Basquiat
Mississippian
Social Murals
17. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Linear perspective
Encaustic
Mayan
Romanesque
18. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
Corinthian columns
Turpentine
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Tapestry
19. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Environmental Art
chromatic gray
African masks
film speed
20. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
scumbling
Romantic Era
Wood and bronze
Color field painting artists
21. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Tenebrism
Mississippian
Rococo
22. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Batik
Designed the Barcelona chair
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Yarn
23. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
Neoclassical
slip
Titan's key works
Dagyuerrotype
24. 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.
Elements of Art
Film Speed
Known Rodin prints
Gouache
25. 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.
Gel medium
Charcoal pen
frisket
dry - brushing
26. AP on an art product means what
Artist Proof
the golden section (architecture)
'fat over lean'
Rotunda
27. Gray made by mixing complements
Printmaking Techniques
chromatic gray
CMYK
Albert Durer
28. 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
William Blake
Color field painting
rhythm
Dome
29. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Gouache
Printmaking Techniques
I.M. Pei
Brushed used in oil painting
30. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Tessera
Scoring
Rodin
aquatint
31. 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
analogous Colors
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
three point perspective
32. 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
Mississippian
Collage
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
33. 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).
binder
modeling
'fat over lean'
Hardbrick
34. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
CMYK
Tenebrism
Linear perspective
Rotunda
35. Symmetrical balance
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36. 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.
Stoneware
Photorealism
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Embroidery
37. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
Color field painting
frisket
CMYK
vehicle
38. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Doric columns
Tint
Motif
Aperture
39. Is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions.
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40. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Esquisse
Barabara Krugel
scumbling
Ionic columns
41. The laying of paint thickly
Degas and Cassett
Linseed oil
Impasto
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
42. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Film Speed
Pointillism
Adena Indian habitats
Camera Obscura
43. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Rembrandt
Wedging
Charcoal pen
Environmental Art
44. 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
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
dry - brushing
Romanesque Cathedrals
45. What city had the first skyscraper?
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Kinetic art
Corinthian columns
Frottage
46. 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.
Crenellation
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Frottage
Environmental Art
47. What goes horizontal across a loom?
three point perspective
Yarn
Basquiat
Shutter Speed
48. 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
Known Rodin prints
warp
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
49. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Wood and bronze
Mayan
dry - brushing
Albert Durer
50. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Gel medium
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Doric columns
Rotunda