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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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1. 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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2. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
Aperture
Degas and Cassett
Abstract Expressionist Artists
modeling
3. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Degas and Cassett
I.M. Pei
Esquisse
Another term used for buddhist temple
4. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light. More sensitive (faster) films have higher ISO numbers and require less exposure in order to make a properly - exposed picture.
Brown
Film Speed
Embroidery
Gothic Cathedrals
5. 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
Rembrandt
Enameling
Titan's key works
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
6. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Julio Gonzalez
Depression art
Fire clay
Dome
7. Made out of Metal
Stoneware properties
African Benin Sculputure
Photogravure
Rabbit Skin Glue
8. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
African masks
Film Speed
Elements of Art
Romanesque Cathedrals
9. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Greenware
Assemblage
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
10. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
Camera Obscura
Used to protect pastel artwork
analogous Colors
A black line
11. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
Kinetic art
Tenebrism
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Linear perspective
12. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
Grisaille
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
frisket
Esquisse
13. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Known Rodin prints
Degas and Cassett
Jewelry tools
Van Der Zee
14. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Corinthian columns
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Designed the Barcelona chair
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
15. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
three point perspective
Neoclassical
Batik
gesso
16. 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
Rough paper
Women artist of the 19th century
Used to protect pastel artwork
17. What city had the first skyscraper?
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Parchment
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
18. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
film speed
Pointillism
Degas and Cassett
The Renaissance
19. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Tapestry
Shade
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Enameling
20. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Mayan
chromatic gray
Artists associated with Pointillism
Linseed oil
21. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Monochrome printing
Women artist of the 19th century
'fat over lean'
Motif
22. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Trompe - l'oil
Isocephaly
Pop artists
Shade
23. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Hardbrick
Safety glasses
Used to protect pastel artwork
nave
24. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
slip
Water
Charcoal pen
Bas
25. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
Basic Elements of Sculpture
binder
African masks
rhythm
26. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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27. 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
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Joseph Beuys
Stoneware
The post - and - lintel system
28. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Shutter Speed
Van Der Zee
value
Another term used for buddhist temple
29. Continuous frieze
Artist Proof
Stoneware properties
Pop artists
Column of Trajan
30. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
kinds of stones for stone carving
Barabara Krugel
chromatic gray
Tempera paint
31. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
scumbling
Lotus postition
Cast concrete - modeling
32. Huge stones
value
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
megalith
gesso
33. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Ceramic glaze
Linear perspective
wedging the clay
A black line
34. 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.
Forms of Charcoal
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Sfumato
scumbling
35. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Pumice
slip
Principle of Art
Depression art
36. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Motif
Croquis
Women artist of the 19th century
Crenellation
37. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Photorealism
A black line
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Loom
38. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Appropriation Art
wedging the clay
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Hagia Sophia
39. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Emphasis
Tempera paint
Meyer Schapiro
Design Elements
40. Considered one of the greatest printmakers of all time. Working with both woodcuts and copper engravings - he attained a level of detail that is virtually unsurpassed.
Batik
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Albert Durer
41. Gouge and chisel
Impasto
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Carving Tools
42. Used in water printing
Wood and bronze
Artists associated with Pointillism
Acrylic paint
Home Insurance Building in NYC
43. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Gothic Cathedrals
CMYK
Value
Titan's key works
44. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
weft
kinds of stones for stone carving
Describe the process of fresco
gouache
45. 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).
three point perspective
Chiaroscuro
Hardbrick
Emphasis
46. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Meyer Schapiro
Artists associated with Pointillism
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Joseph Beuys
47. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I.M. Pei
Depression art
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
48. 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
gesso
Emphasis
Michelangelo
Croquis
49. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
dry - brushing
frisket
Printmaking Techniques
50. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
Lotus postition
The post - and - lintel system
wedging the clay
Trompe - l'oil