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Praxis 2 Art
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1. 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.
Croquis
Tempera paint
Doric columns
Joseph Beuys
2. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Jewelry tools
Romantic Era
Crenellation
Frida Kahlo
3. The laying of paint thickly
Rotunda
Facing forward and stiff
Collage
Impasto
4. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Dry Point
Encaustic
Stoneware properties
Bas
5. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
best resolution in a digital photo?
weft
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Photogravure
6. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Monochrome printing
Rotunda
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Hagia Sophia
7. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
'fat over lean'
Van Der Zee
Stoneware
Design Elements
8. In art - the perception of depth in nature as enhanced by haze in the atmosphere; how the appearance of objects is altered over distance by the effects of the air between the viewer and the object
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Doric columns
Column of Trajan
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
9. 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
Describe the process of fresco
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Gothic Cathedrals
10. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Tessera
gesso
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
slip
11. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Depth of Field
Gothic Cathedrals
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Joseph Beuys
12. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Aperture
Linseed oil
Tapestry
Printmaking Techniques
13. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Embroidery
Column of Trajan
Environmental Art
14. Made by Gustav Eiffel - Eiffel - marks the centennial celebration of the French Revolution. Liberty - iconic symbol of freedom and of the United States. French gave the US - statue of liberty
Gothic Cathedrals
Gel medium
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Water
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.
Sfumato
CMYK
the golden section (architecture)
binder
16. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Assemblage
Barabara Krugel
Dome
Meyer Schapiro
17. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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18. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
Printmaking Techniques
Jewelry tools
Artists associated with Pointillism
Women artist of the 19th century
19. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Tapestry
Shutter Speed
Rice paper
Gouache
20. 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.
Titan's key works
Scoring
Film Speed
African Benin Sculputure
21. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
intermediate colors
Armature
A black line
Color field painting artists
22. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Carving Tools
Romanesque
Baroque painting
23. What color do two secondary colors make?
Artists associated with Pointillism
Elements of Art
Known Rodin prints
Brown
24. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Paint Extender
Shade
Impasto
Motif
25. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Stoneware
'fat over lean'
Dagyuerrotype
Georgian Style
26. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
frisket
Impasto
Linseed oil
27. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Fire clay
Ceramic glaze
Dagyuerrotype
Tint
28. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Julio Gonzalez
Hardbrick
Michelangelo
Stoneware
29. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Egg Tempera
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Pastel
Equipment used in oil painting
30. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
Sfumato
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
The Renaissance
rhythm
31. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Egg Tempera
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Sfumato
Collage
32. 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
Design Elements
the golden section (architecture)
Artists associated with Pointillism
Thomas Gainsborough
33. 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.
Grisaille
Forms of Charcoal
scumbling
intermediate colors
34. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
modeling
three point perspective
A black line
stain glass in a cathedral
35. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Safety glasses
Women artist of the 19th century
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Adena Indian habitats
36. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
African Benin Sculputure
Equipment used in oil painting
Wood and bronze
Jewelry tools
37. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Facing forward and stiff
weft
Depression era Artists
Linear perspective
38. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
the golden section (architecture)
Artists associated with Pointillism
Hardbrick
Social Realism
39. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
Another term used for buddhist temple
wedging the clay
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
African masks
40. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Joseph Beuys
Rotunda
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Scoring
41. What city had the first skyscraper?
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Islam art
Color field painting artists
dry - brushing
42. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Ionic columns
Color field painting artists
Romantic Era
Color field painting
43. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Cement
Batik
Gouache
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
44. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
wedging the clay
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Degas and Cassett
Rococo
45. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
gesso
Mississippian
Crenellation
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
46. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
Encaustic
Rough paper
Neoclassical
Barabara Krugel
47. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
modeling
Rodin
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Joseph Beuys
48. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Adena Indian habitats
frisket
Ceramic - Sgraffito
49. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Forms of Charcoal
gouache
Doric columns
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
50. 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
Frottage
Ceramic glaze
Shade