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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Tapestry
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
intermediate colors
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
2. 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.
Sfumato
megalith
Frida Kahlo
Pastel
3. 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
Color field painting
Assemblage
Joseph Beuys
Film Speed
4. What color do two secondary colors make?
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Chiaroscuro
value
Brown
5. The art of working raised and ornamental designs in threads of silk - cotton - gold - silver - or other material - upon any woven fabric - leather - paper - etc. - with a needle.
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Embroidery
Neoclassical
Brown
6. 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.
Artist Proof
Dry Point
scumbling
Charcoal pen
7. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Color field painting
Julio Gonzalez
Stoneware properties
three point perspective
8. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
Kinetic art
Depth of Field
Artists associated with Pointillism
Baroque painting
9. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Gothic Cathedrals
Titan's key works
Social Murals
Linear perspective
10. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Facing forward and stiff
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Grisaille
Basquiat
11. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
Pumice
Basquiat
Enameling
Pastel
12. Rene Magritte
Pointillism
Croquis
Monochrome printing
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
13. 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'.
'fat over lean'
Crenellation
binder
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
14. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
Hagia Sophia
intaglio
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
scumbling
15. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Dagyuerrotype
Tint
Albert Durer
Camera Obscura
16. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
gouache
Wood and bronze
Design Principles
Lotus postition
17. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Tessera
Rembrandt
Michelangelo
CMYK
18. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Rococo
Hagia Sophia
dry - brushing
Adena Indian habitats
19. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
binder
Designed the Barcelona chair
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
20. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
rhythm
Tenebrism
Parchment
21. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
Elements of Art
warp
Mayan
Wedging
22. Woven wall hangings.
Tapestry
dry - brushing
Frida Kahlo
Hagia Sophia
23. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
modeling
Hagia Sophia
Chiaroscuro
'fat over lean'
24. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Women artist of the 19th century
frisket
Yarn
Known Rodin prints
25. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Isocephaly
Design Principles
Cast concrete - modeling
Principle of Art
26. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Julio Gonzalez
Turpentine
Paint Extender
Van Der Zee
27. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
modeling
Known Rodin prints
Neoclassical
frisket
28. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Monochrome printing
Stoneware
Tint
Linear perspective
29. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Charcoal pen
Stoneware properties
Cast concrete - modeling
The Renaissance
30. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Monochrome printing
Wedging
Parchment
Forms of Charcoal
31. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Parchment
Tint
Romanesque Cathedrals
Batik
32. Gray made by mixing complements
Artists associated with Pointillism
constructed the Spiral Jetty
chromatic gray
Meyer Schapiro
33. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Scoring
Film Speed
Joseph Beuys
34. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Kinetic art
Georgian Style
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Gouache
35. 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
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Water
Degas and Cassett
Julio Gonzalez
36. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
modeling
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Gel medium
Rodin
37. 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
Yarn
Degas and Cassett
Dome
Romanesque
38. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
binder
Assemblage
A black line
Armature
39. Pagoda
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Pop artists
Another term used for buddhist temple
intermediate colors
40. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Dry Point
Motif
Meyer Schapiro
Lotus postition
41. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
Chiaroscuro
Linseed oil
Encaustic
A black line
42. AP on an art product means what
Wood and bronze
Dagyuerrotype
Safety glasses
Artist Proof
43. What is another work for low relief?
Bas
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Carving Tools
Chiaroscuro
44. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Dry Point
Bas
Parchment
William Blake
45. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
kinds of stones for stone carving
Rice paper
Gothic Cathedrals
Wood and bronze
46. A dominant idea or central theme
Loom
analogous Colors
Encaustic
Motif
47. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Dome
Describe the process of fresco
Japanese art and buildings
Croquis
48. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
value
binder
Photogravure
Chiaroscuro
49. 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
Frottage
Water
Pointillism
warp
50. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Social Realism
Titan's key works
modeling