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Praxis 2 Art
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1. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
chromatic gray
Isocephaly
Corinthian columns
Croquis
2. 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).
Assemblage
Scoring
Hardbrick
Rodin
3. The central area of a church
nave
Gouache
Social Murals
Depth of Field
4. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Elements of Art
Women artist of the 19th century
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Known Rodin prints
5. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
Depth of Field
Turpentine
Yarn
Dagyuerrotype
6. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Artist Proof
Ceramic glaze
Chiaroscuro
Charcoal pen
7. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Principle of Art
Design Elements
Scoring
Water
8. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Brushed used in oil painting
Degas and Cassett
Grisaille
Esquisse
9. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
analogous Colors
Depression era Artists
weft
Collage
10. The laying of paint thickly
Tapestry
Isocephaly
Impasto
constructed the Spiral Jetty
11. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
Lotus postition
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
frisket
Artist Proof
12. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Degas and Cassett
scumbling
Depression art
Sulfur
13. Pagoda
Doric columns
Gothic Cathedrals
Another term used for buddhist temple
Pastel
14. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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15. 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.
Forms of Charcoal
Rough paper
Photorealism
Hardbrick
16. Gouge and chisel
Frida Kahlo
Romantic Era
Environmental Art
Carving Tools
17. rayons resistant to what?
Lotus postition
Water
Color field painting artists
Stepped Pyramid Temples
18. Robert Smithson
Aperture
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Assemblage
Albert Durer
19. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Paint Extender
Ionic columns
Pop artists
Batik
20. AP on an art product means what
Ionic columns
scumbling
Artist Proof
Corinthian columns
21. ...
Romanesque Cathedrals
Collage
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Used to protect pastel artwork
22. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
Lotus postition
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Monochrome printing
Turpentine
23. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Egg Tempera
Acrylic paint
Column of Trajan
Design Principles
24. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Armature
Camera Obscura
Tint
25. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
Wood and bronze
Mississippian
Depression era Artists
Sulfur
26. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
African masks
Mayan
Georgian Style
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
27. What color do two secondary colors make?
nave
Tapestry
Brown
Linseed oil
28. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Collage
CMYK
Depth of Field
Grisaille
29. 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
Facing forward and stiff
Describe the process of fresco
Shutter Speed
30. What goes horizontal across a loom?
intermediate colors
Yarn
Facing forward and stiff
A black line
31. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
analogous Colors
Chiaroscuro
Facing forward and stiff
Safety glasses
32. Sculptor. Major Work: The Thinker - a naturalist - less concerned with monumental expression than with character and emotion. Departing with centuries of tradition - he turned away from the idealism of the Greeks - and the decorative beauty of the Ba
Pastel
Rodin
Designed the Barcelona chair
Depth of Field
33. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Scoring
Cast concrete - modeling
Yarn
Environmental Art
34. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Photorealism
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Pumice
Sfumato
35. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
warp
Hagia Sophia
Ceramic glaze
three point perspective
36. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
Another term used for buddhist temple
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
binder
The post - and - lintel system
37. Who said ' less is more'?
Rodin
Used to protect pastel artwork
Value
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
38. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Principle of Art
Barabara Krugel
Basquiat
39. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
I.M. Pei
Romantic Era
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Motif
40. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Armature
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Shade
Grisaille
41. 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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42. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Enameling
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Elements of Art
Cast concrete - modeling
43. The principle in oil painting that suggests each layer of paint should contain more oil than the one beneath. Awareness of this concept helps ensure permanence.
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44. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
Enameling
stain glass in a cathedral
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
A black line
45. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Cast concrete - modeling
Emphasis
Batik
46. Rocks - pebbles etc - 'a hole can it self have as much shape meaning as a solid mass. The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation. The hole connects one side to the other - making it immediately more three - dimensional. A hole can i
Color field painting artists
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Motif
Carving Tools
47. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Neoclassical
Gel medium
Depth of Field
Wedging
48. 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
Rodin
Isocephaly
the golden section (architecture)
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
49. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Embroidery
'fat over lean'
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Crenellation
50. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Rotunda
value
Tessera
Brushed used in oil painting
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