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Praxis 2 Art
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1. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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2. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Dagyuerrotype
balance
3. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Batik
Safety glasses
analogous Colors
Dry Point
4. 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'.
Armature
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Parchment
Degas and Cassett
5. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Rembrandt
Wedging
balance
Cast concrete - modeling
6. 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.
Mayan
Appropriation Art
Frottage
Camera Obscura
7. To make a quick sketch
Isocephaly
Assemblage
Croquis
Impasto
8. What is another work for low relief?
Mississippian
'fat over lean'
Bas
Fire clay
9. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
kinds of stones for stone carving
Tapestry
Ceramic glaze
the golden section (architecture)
10. Origin is Mayan
aquatint
warp
Stepped Pyramid Temples
nave
11. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
value
Tenebrism
Social Murals
Linear perspective
12. 3X 5300 pixels
Rotunda
best resolution in a digital photo?
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Artist Proof
13. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
wedging the clay
Another term used for buddhist temple
The Renaissance
Hagia Sophia
14. Gray made by mixing complements
Appropriation Art
Value
chromatic gray
Jewelry tools
15. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
Linseed oil
Facing forward and stiff
The Renaissance
Georgian Style
16. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Armature
binder
Paint Extender
Grisaille
17. Huge stones
Appropriation Art
Aperture
Artists associated with Pointillism
megalith
18. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Value
The Renaissance
Crenellation
three point perspective
19. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Gel medium
Sulfur
Tessera
Romanesque Cathedrals
20. 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.
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Photorealism
Turpentine
Stoneware properties
21. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
stain glass in a cathedral
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Social Murals
binder
22. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Appropriation Art
Shade
Georgian Style
Stoneware
23. Air - dry unfired clay
Jewelry tools
Greenware
Depth of Field
The Renaissance
24. Most common oil in oil paints
three point perspective
The post - and - lintel system
Basquiat
Linseed oil
25. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Fire clay
Assemblage
Rodin
William Blake
26. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Encaustic
Crenellation
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
27. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
David Hockney
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Elements of Art
Charcoal pen
28. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Pointillism
Elements of Art
Loom
African masks
29. 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).
Egg Tempera
Sulfur
Hardbrick
balance
30. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Van Der Zee
aquatint
Tessera
Romantic Era
31. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Social Realism
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Esquisse
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
32. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
Describe the process of fresco
Tapestry
intermediate colors
Ceramic glaze
33. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Depth of Field
Color field painting
34. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Collage
William Blake
Aperture
Film Speed
35. Used her life experiences into her artwork - including her marriage - her miscarriages - and her numerous operations - works often are characterized by their stark portrayals of pain - combined elements of the classic religious Mexican tradition with
Frida Kahlo
Pumice
Equipment used in oil painting
Meyer Schapiro
36. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Mayan
Isocephaly
Tint
Scoring
37. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
wedging the clay
Titan's key works
Dry Point
Assemblage
38. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?
Sulfur
Tenebrism
Pastel
Cement
39. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
Home Insurance Building in NYC
weft
best resolution in a digital photo?
warp
40. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Shutter Speed
Rembrandt
Meyer Schapiro
Georgian Style
41. Italian term meaning smoke - describing a very delicate gradation of light and shade in the modeling of figures; often ascribed to Da Vinci's work.
David Hockney
Sfumato
Tessera
value
42. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Linseed oil
megalith
Describe the process of fresco
The Renaissance
43. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
three point perspective
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Linseed oil
44. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
warp
Brushed used in oil painting
Impasto
gouache
45. 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
Rotunda
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
African masks
Baroque painting
46. Continuous frieze
Sulfur
Column of Trajan
Principle of Art
'fat over lean'
47. 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
Brown
dry - brushing
Ionic columns
48. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
Stoneware
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
vehicle
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
49. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Another term used for buddhist temple
Depth of Field
Lotus postition
Principle of Art
50. Who made large portraits of friends?
Meyer Schapiro
Turpentine
David Hockney
warp
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