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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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1. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
three point perspective
Crenellation
A black line
The Renaissance
2. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Brown
intaglio
Rodin
Yarn
3. Symmetrical balance
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4. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Linseed oil
Ceramic glaze
Sfumato
Degas and Cassett
5. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
scumbling
Printmaking Techniques
Van Der Zee
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
6. 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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7. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Camera Obscura
Croquis
The post - and - lintel system
8. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
Joseph Beuys
Assemblage
Kinetic art
Social Murals
9. 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
Known Rodin prints
Frida Kahlo
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Rodin
10. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Isocephaly
Facing forward and stiff
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Collage
11. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Romanesque Cathedrals
Describe the process of fresco
Crenellation
Titan's key works
12. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Croquis
'fat over lean'
Hagia Sophia
Pastel
13. 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
Gothic Cathedrals
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Japanese art and buildings
Depth of Field
14. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Stoneware properties
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Degas and Cassett
Armature
15. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Aperture
Dry Point
gouache
rhythm
16. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Rabbit Skin Glue
Tapestry
Paint Extender
Pointillism
17. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Romanesque Cathedrals
Shutter Speed
Sfumato
William Blake
18. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
A black line
Rotunda
Jewelry tools
Charcoal pen
19. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
The Renaissance
Dry Point
Depth of Field
Depression art
20. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Ceramic glaze
Scoring
modeling
21. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Depth of Field
Embroidery
Tempera paint
Cast concrete - modeling
22. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Chiaroscuro
Islam art
Printmaking Techniques
Equipment used in oil painting
23. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Cement
Tenebrism
Dry Point
Greenware
24. 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.
Film Speed
Motif
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Titan's key works
25. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
'fat over lean'
Bas
Design Elements
slip
26. 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).
Meyer Schapiro
Hardbrick
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
three point perspective
27. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
warp
Van Der Zee
binder
28. A German performance artist - sculptor - installation artist - graphic artist - art theorist and pedagogue of art. Artwork: Performance : How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Joseph Beuys
Printmaking Techniques
Jewelry tools
29. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Monochrome printing
Dagyuerrotype
Tessera
Enameling
30. Known for stone. The term was invented by 19th century art historians - especially for Romanesque architecture - which retained many basic features of Roman architectural style - most notably round - headed arches - but also barrel vaults - apses - a
Wedging
Film Speed
Romanesque
Depth of Field
31. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
frisket
Pastel
slip
Michelangelo
32. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
I.M. Pei
Dagyuerrotype
Mayan
Tenebrism
33. The laying of paint thickly
Impasto
Cement
Hagia Sophia
Meyer Schapiro
34. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
African masks
Stoneware properties
Tint
frisket
35. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
Doric columns
intermediate colors
Hagia Sophia
Corinthian columns
36. 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
scumbling
the golden section (architecture)
Environmental Art
37. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Aperture
Pop artists
Loom
Monochrome printing
38. AP on an art product means what
Yarn
Armature
Artist Proof
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
39. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Aperture
Collage
Stoneware properties
Barabara Krugel
40. The second oldest medium after encaustic. It was used by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks and perfected by the icon painters during the last 100 years of the old Byzantine Empire (400 AD-1202 AD).
Romantic Era
Egg Tempera
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Tessera
41. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Grisaille
Turpentine
'fat over lean'
Chiaroscuro
42. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Forms of Charcoal
Depth of Field
Japanese art and buildings
Scoring
43. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
Pastel
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Palace of Versaille
intaglio
44. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Gouache
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Collage
Doric columns
45. To make a quick sketch
Mayan
African masks
Charcoal pen
Croquis
46. 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.
Dagyuerrotype
Principle of Art
dry - brushing
Trompe - l'oil
47. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Known Rodin prints
Dagyuerrotype
Ceramic glaze
Depression era Artists
48. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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49. Woven wall hangings.
Gouache
Tapestry
A black line
Gel medium
50. Is a circle - shaped opening in a lens (a hole - really) through which light passes to strike the film. The size of the aperture is expressed as an f - number - like f/8 or f/11.
Turpentine
vehicle
Aperture
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?