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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. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Shutter Speed
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Stoneware properties
2. Pagoda
wedging the clay
Another term used for buddhist temple
Pastel
weft
3. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
Parchment
intaglio
Social Realism
William Blake
4. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Pumice
Shade
Charcoal pen
Carving Tools
5. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
Rough paper
wedging the clay
Ionic columns
Crenellation
6. Who said ' less is more'?
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Dome
weft
Pumice
7. 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
Tenebrism
kinds of stones for stone carving
Used to protect pastel artwork
Depression era Artists
8. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
Depression era Artists
megalith
film speed
Gouache
9. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Rembrandt
Dome
Armature
Monochrome printing
10. Neo expressionist artist - Jean - Michel Basquiat was an American painter who rose to fame in the 1980s - and was the first African - American artist to gain international acclaim. His emotionally - charged paintings gave rise to graffiti art and the
Basquiat
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Dry Point
warp
11. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Enameling
vehicle
Brushed used in oil painting
Armature
12. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Environmental Art
Julio Gonzalez
Stoneware properties
Charcoal pen
13. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Wood and bronze
aquatint
Meyer Schapiro
Van Der Zee
14. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Batik
Pop artists
Aperture
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
15. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Frottage
Parchment
Design Elements
Thomas Gainsborough
16. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Elements of Art
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Brown
17. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Basquiat
Rough paper
chromatic gray
Gothic Cathedrals
18. Gray made by mixing complements
chromatic gray
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Describe the process of fresco
scumbling
19. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
Emphasis
intermediate colors
Corinthian columns
gouache
20. His versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man
Michelangelo
Romanesque
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Dagyuerrotype
21. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Armature
gouache
Social Murals
Photorealism
22. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Camera Obscura
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Rice paper
23. 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.
Wedging
CMYK
Linseed oil
Bas
24. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Fire clay
best resolution in a digital photo?
weft
Design Principles
25. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Tapestry
Monochrome printing
Ionic columns
warp
26. To make a quick sketch
Croquis
warp
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
stain glass in a cathedral
27. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Crenellation
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Batik
'fat over lean'
28. 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
Stepped Pyramid Temples
slip
Carving Tools
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
29. 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.
Photorealism
vehicle
Frottage
slip
30. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Scoring
Equipment used in oil painting
Chiaroscuro
Safety glasses
31. 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.
balance
Corinthian columns
Color field painting
intermediate colors
32. 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.
Jewelry tools
nave
dry - brushing
Palace of Versaille
33. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
slip
Value
Printmaking Techniques
Designed the Barcelona chair
34. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
vehicle
CMYK
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Turpentine
35. Huge stones
megalith
Crenellation
Kinetic art
Islam art
36. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Carving Tools
Cast concrete - modeling
Collage
Designed the Barcelona chair
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
David Hockney
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Sulfur
Baroque painting
38. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
scumbling
Depression art
Depth of Field
Ceramic glaze
39. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Hagia Sophia
Gel medium
Impasto
Crenellation
40. 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
Tessera
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
41. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
Gouache
frisket
Shutter Speed
the golden section (architecture)
42. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
gesso
Palace of Versaille
Used to protect pastel artwork
intaglio
43. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Wood and bronze
Armature
Depth of Field
Pop artists
44. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Chiaroscuro
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Paint Extender
weft
45. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Monochrome printing
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Baroque painting
Tapestry
46. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
Sfumato
Egg Tempera
intermediate colors
Kinetic art
47. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Rice paper
intermediate colors
Frottage
Rabbit Skin Glue
48. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Greenware
Georgian Style
Bas
Rice paper
49. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Yarn
Croquis
Enameling
Designed the Barcelona chair
50. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Dry Point
Principle of Art
Photorealism
Romantic Era