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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. 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
wedging the clay
Gothic Cathedrals
Cement
Frida Kahlo
2. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Printmaking Techniques
Baroque painting
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Carving Tools
3. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Armature
value
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Romantic Era
4. Made by Gustav Eiffel - Eiffel - marks the centennial celebration of the French Revolution. Liberty - iconic symbol of freedom and of the United States. French gave the US - statue of liberty
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Artist Proof
Bas
Jewelry tools
5. 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.
vehicle
Facing forward and stiff
Photorealism
Another term used for buddhist temple
6. Gray made by mixing complements
chromatic gray
Encaustic
Sulfur
'fat over lean'
7. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Armature
Japanese art and buildings
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Degas and Cassett
8. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
Dagyuerrotype
Facing forward and stiff
Bas
stain glass in a cathedral
9. 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
Romanesque
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Jewelry tools
Stoneware
10. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Gouache
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Enameling
Greenware
11. The art of working raised and ornamental designs in threads of silk - cotton - gold - silver - or other material - upon any woven fabric - leather - paper - etc. - with a needle.
Equipment used in oil painting
Carving Tools
Dagyuerrotype
Embroidery
12. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Assemblage
Paint Extender
vehicle
Ionic columns
13. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
vehicle
Appropriation Art
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Jewelry tools
14. What city had the first skyscraper?
Chiaroscuro
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Dagyuerrotype
Home Insurance Building in NYC
15. Origin is Mayan
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Hardbrick
Michelangelo
Depression era Artists
16. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Tint
Jewelry tools
Carving Tools
Palace of Versaille
17. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
Chiaroscuro
intaglio
Rough paper
I.M. Pei
18. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
William Blake
Tessera
Mayan
slip
19. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
Armature
Assemblage
Kinetic art
rhythm
20. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Cement
stain glass in a cathedral
Depression art
Chiaroscuro
21. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Artist Proof
Romanesque
Thomas Gainsborough
Appropriation Art
22. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Women artist of the 19th century
Chiaroscuro
Tempera paint
Neoclassical
23. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Rodin
Aperture
Linear perspective
Acrylic paint
24. 3X 5300 pixels
Equipment used in oil painting
best resolution in a digital photo?
analogous Colors
Rice paper
25. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Cast concrete - modeling
Corinthian columns
Neoclassical
Sfumato
26. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
binder
Greenware
Wedging
the golden section (architecture)
27. 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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28. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
Tint
film speed
Elements of Art
Environmental Art
29. 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'.
Shade
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Gouache
Wood and bronze
30. What color do two secondary colors make?
Used to protect pastel artwork
Aperture
analogous Colors
Brown
31. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
African masks
Film Speed
Esquisse
Frida Kahlo
32. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
modeling
Kinetic art
Cement
chromatic gray
33. 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
kinds of stones for stone carving
stain glass in a cathedral
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Michelangelo
34. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
A black line
aquatint
William Blake
Julio Gonzalez
35. To make a quick sketch
Cement
Hardbrick
Acrylic paint
Croquis
36. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
Wood and bronze
Frottage
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
frisket
37. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Equipment used in oil painting
Degas and Cassett
Emphasis
Batik
38. 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
Embroidery
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Dome
Basquiat
39. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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40. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Tint
gouache
Crenellation
Basic Elements of Sculpture
41. Most common oil in oil paints
megalith
Linseed oil
Doric columns
Pumice
42. Woven wall hangings.
I.M. Pei
Lotus postition
Tapestry
Ceramic glaze
43. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Tessera
film speed
44. 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
Printmaking Techniques
Impasto
Pointillism
Joseph Beuys
45. 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.
Environmental Art
William Blake
Film Speed
Hagia Sophia
46. Painter and printmaker of Romantism.Held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity - and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. Works: The Song of Los - The Lovers Whirlwind - Ancient of Days
Jewelry tools
Loom
William Blake
Tapestry
47. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
A black line
Depth of Field
frisket
Sfumato
48. 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
Grisaille
Tempera paint
Rodin
Elements of Art
49. A ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both. Ancient Ea ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the su
the golden section (architecture)
Mississippian
Doric columns
Forms of Charcoal
50. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Emphasis
Photogravure
Romantic Era
Greenware