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Praxis 2 Art
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1. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Elements of Art
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Pumice
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
2. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Value
Meyer Schapiro
Design Principles
Fire clay
3. Made out of Metal
African Benin Sculputure
Rice paper
Color field painting artists
Armature
4. Woven wall hangings.
Collage
Michelangelo
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Tapestry
5. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Pastel
Shutter Speed
Pop artists
nave
6. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Principle of Art
Aperture
Michelangelo
7. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
Titan's key works
Brown
film speed
Romantic Era
8. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
Rotunda
Motif
The post - and - lintel system
Charcoal pen
9. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
Describe the process of fresco
Cast concrete - modeling
African masks
warp
10. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Linear perspective
Tessera
Islam art
Photorealism
11. What city had the first skyscraper?
Mississippian
Japanese art and buildings
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Forms of Charcoal
12. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
The Renaissance
Social Realism
Photorealism
rhythm
13. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Column of Trajan
Camera Obscura
Adena Indian habitats
Photogravure
14. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Degas and Cassett
Frida Kahlo
Ionic columns
Photorealism
15. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
frisket
Pastel
Artist Proof
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
16. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Stoneware properties
Albert Durer
Crenellation
Environmental Art
17. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Degas and Cassett
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Assemblage
Aperture
18. Possin was a French painter in the classical style.Themes of tragedy and death are prevalent in Poussin's work.[13] Et in Arcadia ego - a subject he painted twice (second version is seen at right) - exemplifies his cerebral approach. In this composit
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19. Who made large portraits of friends?
David Hockney
Another term used for buddhist temple
Adena Indian habitats
vehicle
20. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
intermediate colors
Thomas Gainsborough
Chiaroscuro
Isocephaly
21. 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
Photogravure
Loom
Rococo
22. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Dagyuerrotype
Rodin
Home Insurance Building in NYC
23. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Describe the process of fresco
aquatint
slip
24. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
Brushed used in oil painting
analogous Colors
stain glass in a cathedral
African Benin Sculputure
25. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Crenellation
Color field painting
Degas and Cassett
rhythm
26. Continuous frieze
Column of Trajan
Wedging
Esquisse
'fat over lean'
27. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Japanese art and buildings
Printmaking Techniques
Kinetic art
28. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
A black line
Grisaille
Neoclassical
intermediate colors
29. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
chromatic gray
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Dome
Dagyuerrotype
30. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Gouache
Hardbrick
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Cast concrete - modeling
31. 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'.
Cement
Women artist of the 19th century
Encaustic
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
32. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Thomas Gainsborough
Stoneware properties
Islam art
Dagyuerrotype
33. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
Loom
Design Principles
Wedging
frisket
34. 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
Gouache
nave
gouache
35. Gouge and chisel
Social Realism
Carving Tools
Islam art
three point perspective
36. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
nave
Equipment used in oil painting
Emphasis
Van Der Zee
37. 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
Romanesque
Baroque painting
Pointillism
Tempera paint
38. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
African Benin Sculputure
Romantic Era
African masks
Encaustic
39. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Parchment
Thomas Gainsborough
Tempera paint
Kinetic art
40. Air - dry unfired clay
value
Color field painting artists
Greenware
Dome
41. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Emphasis
Barabara Krugel
42. An art and design principle concerned with the arrangement of one or more elements in a work of art so that they appear symmetrical (even) or asymmetrical (uneven) in design and proportion.
Jewelry tools
Georgian Style
balance
Gouache
43. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Acrylic paint
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Crenellation
Brushed used in oil painting
44. 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.
'fat over lean'
CMYK
Armature
Rodin
45. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Romantic Era
Depression era Artists
Japanese art and buildings
Depression art
46. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Baroque painting
Tempera paint
analogous Colors
Social Murals
47. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
binder
Islam art
Egg Tempera
William Blake
48. 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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49. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Rice paper
Enameling
slip
Romanesque Cathedrals
50. 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
rhythm
Rodin
I.M. Pei
Known Rodin prints
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