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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. 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
Chiaroscuro
Trompe - l'oil
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
2. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Rococo
Parchment
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Chiaroscuro
3. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Rembrandt
Mississippian
Pastel
Isocephaly
4. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Frida Kahlo
Linear perspective
Tempera paint
Abstract Expressionist Artists
5. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
intaglio
Thomas Gainsborough
Barabara Krugel
Loom
6. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Fire clay
Artists associated with Pointillism
Another term used for buddhist temple
Degas and Cassett
7. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
Emphasis
Tapestry
Describe the process of fresco
Brown
8. To make a quick sketch
William Blake
Collage
Croquis
slip
9. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
Stoneware properties
Safety glasses
slip
Depression era Artists
10. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
I.M. Pei
film speed
Shutter Speed
Camera Obscura
11. 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
Emphasis
the golden section (architecture)
Yarn
Stoneware
12. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
Rembrandt
Depth of Field
African masks
Acrylic paint
13. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Camera Obscura
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Appropriation Art
14. AP on an art product means what
Artists associated with Pointillism
Artist Proof
Describe the process of fresco
frisket
15. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Artists associated with Pointillism
Barabara Krugel
three point perspective
16. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Emphasis
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
warp
Design Principles
17. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
Frida Kahlo
Wedging
weft
gouache
18. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
modeling
Scoring
David Hockney
19. Used in water printing
Acrylic paint
Shade
Wedging
Collage
20. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Principle of Art
Basquiat
Used to protect pastel artwork
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
21. What is another work for low relief?
modeling
Julio Gonzalez
Bas
Sfumato
22. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
constructed the Spiral Jetty
The post - and - lintel system
African masks
Mississippian
23. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Design Elements
Social Murals
Brushed used in oil painting
Pop artists
24. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Another term used for buddhist temple
Charcoal pen
Van Der Zee
25. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
Neoclassical
Principle of Art
Michelangelo
vehicle
26. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Pop artists
Van Der Zee
modeling
27. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Fire clay
Depression era Artists
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Elements of Art
28. Fix
Cast concrete - modeling
Used to protect pastel artwork
Elements of Art
Sulfur
29. The second oldest medium after encaustic. It was used by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks and perfected by the icon painters during the last 100 years of the old Byzantine Empire (400 AD-1202 AD).
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Fire clay
African masks
Egg Tempera
30. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Dome
Women artist of the 19th century
modeling
Stepped Pyramid Temples
31. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Gel medium
Baroque painting
Column of Trajan
Dry Point
32. 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
Chiaroscuro
Batik
kinds of stones for stone carving
33. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
three point perspective
Tessera
Assemblage
Basquiat
34. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Design Elements
Facing forward and stiff
35. Made out of Metal
Principle of Art
African Benin Sculputure
Gel medium
Isocephaly
36. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
Loom
Collage
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
vehicle
37. Came in response to Renaissance Art - ominous - otherworldly - and dark in subject. _________ art was heavily influenced by the Counter - reformation and thus more interested in dramatic scenes of saints and history paintings.Art from the Baroque per
Grisaille
Albert Durer
Baroque painting
kinds of stones for stone carving
38. What city had the first skyscraper?
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Meyer Schapiro
Describe the process of fresco
Design Elements
39. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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40. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
Color field painting
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Shutter Speed
Rough paper
41. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Stoneware
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Croquis
nave
42. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
Kinetic art
binder
Sfumato
Known Rodin prints
43. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
balance
I.M. Pei
Film Speed
Ceramic glaze
44. 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
Design Elements
Home Insurance Building in NYC
The Renaissance
Romanesque
45. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Dome
Degas and Cassett
Gouache
Rotunda
46. Huge stones
constructed the Spiral Jetty
megalith
Doric columns
Pop artists
47. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Tint
Photorealism
Wedging
intermediate colors
48. 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.
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Bas
aquatint
Photorealism
49. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
Color field painting artists
Principle of Art
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Depression era Artists
50. 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
Loom
Romanesque Cathedrals
Tenebrism
Shade