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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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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. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Forms of Charcoal
Bas
Shutter Speed
Islam art
2. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
frisket
Turpentine
Tessera
Photorealism
3. Symmetrical balance
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4. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Isocephaly
Dome
I.M. Pei
Another term used for buddhist temple
5. To make a quick sketch
Japanese art and buildings
Fire clay
Croquis
African masks
6. Example of baroque architecture
Doric columns
Social Murals
Palace of Versaille
Romanesque
7. 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'.
binder
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
8. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
African Benin Sculputure
value
Depression era Artists
Appropriation Art
9. Continuous frieze
Column of Trajan
best resolution in a digital photo?
vehicle
Design Elements
10. Made out of Metal
Gouache
frisket
Home Insurance Building in NYC
African Benin Sculputure
11. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Describe the process of fresco
Thomas Gainsborough
Grisaille
Pointillism
12. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
Monochrome printing
Pastel
frisket
Pumice
13. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
intermediate colors
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Film Speed
Ceramic - Sgraffito
14. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Ceramic glaze
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Wedging
Frottage
15. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Artists associated with Pointillism
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Jewelry tools
Scoring
16. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Baroque painting
Design Elements
Paint Extender
Dagyuerrotype
17. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Cement
Neoclassical
Monochrome printing
Home Insurance Building in NYC
18. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Titan's key works
I.M. Pei
value
19. A painting technique in which - as the name suggests - a little bit of paint is put on a dry brush. When applied - it produces a broken - scratchy effect.
Armature
Linear perspective
dry - brushing
stain glass in a cathedral
20. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Depression art
best resolution in a digital photo?
Design Principles
balance
21. 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
Baroque painting
modeling
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Pumice
22. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
Depth of Field
Lotus postition
Equipment used in oil painting
value
23. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Trompe - l'oil
Another term used for buddhist temple
Designed the Barcelona chair
Dry Point
24. Huge stones
Aperture
Japanese art and buildings
megalith
Value
25. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Titan's key works
The post - and - lintel system
26. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Another term used for buddhist temple
Isocephaly
Basquiat
27. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
aquatint
Parchment
Principle of Art
dry - brushing
28. AP on an art product means what
Appropriation Art
analogous Colors
Artist Proof
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
29. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
film speed
Rembrandt
Acrylic paint
wedging the clay
30. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Assemblage
The Renaissance
vehicle
Batik
31. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Jewelry tools
Barabara Krugel
analogous Colors
Bas
32. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
Yarn
rhythm
Frida Kahlo
Gel medium
33. What is another work for low relief?
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Monochrome printing
Bas
Corinthian columns
34. A school - style - or method of painting - adopted chiefly by 17th - century Spanish and Neapolitan painters - esp Caravaggio - characterized by large areas of dark colours - usually relieved with a shaft of ligh
Wedging
Crenellation
Tenebrism
Known Rodin prints
35. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Gouache
Meyer Schapiro
Batik
Elements of Art
36. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Social Realism
Elements of Art
Gel medium
Grisaille
37. The laying of paint thickly
The post - and - lintel system
best resolution in a digital photo?
Impasto
Water
38. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Motif
39. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
gouache
Used to protect pastel artwork
megalith
dry - brushing
40. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Social Realism
binder
Depth of Field
weft
41. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Artist Proof
Water
Facing forward and stiff
Fire clay
42. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Wood and bronze
Known Rodin prints
Rabbit Skin Glue
Appropriation Art
43. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Parchment
Egg Tempera
Pumice
Printmaking Techniques
44. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Equipment used in oil painting
Color field painting
Baroque painting
Dry Point
45. Gray made by mixing complements
chromatic gray
stain glass in a cathedral
Design Elements
Social Murals
46. 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.
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Linear perspective
Safety glasses
Photorealism
47. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Loom
Romantic Era
A black line
Design Elements
48. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Pumice
Design Elements
binder
Design Principles
49. Used in water printing
Loom
Acrylic paint
stain glass in a cathedral
A black line
50. To mount a white and black photo - use...
modeling
Rice paper
Shade
Basquiat