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Praxis 2 Art
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1. 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
vehicle
Safety glasses
Basquiat
Thomas Gainsborough
2. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Lotus postition
Encaustic
gouache
Ionic columns
3. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Color field painting
Tempera paint
Used to protect pastel artwork
Column of Trajan
4. Gray made by mixing complements
Islam art
chromatic gray
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Cement
5. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Rabbit Skin Glue
Film Speed
Wedging
chromatic gray
6. 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.
Sfumato
Frida Kahlo
Embroidery
Armature
7. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Tint
Julio Gonzalez
chromatic gray
Palace of Versaille
8. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
Carving Tools
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Lotus postition
Pop artists
9. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Film Speed
Social Realism
Photorealism
Linear perspective
10. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Social Realism
Barabara Krugel
Designed the Barcelona chair
Brown
11. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Romantic Era
dry - brushing
Equipment used in oil painting
Another term used for buddhist temple
12. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Color field painting artists
Stoneware properties
Design Principles
Tessera
13. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
David Hockney
Gothic Cathedrals
Paint Extender
Carving Tools
14. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Linear perspective
Doric columns
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
15. Made out of Metal
Wedging
African Benin Sculputure
Known Rodin prints
Julio Gonzalez
16. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
the golden section (architecture)
Corinthian columns
I.M. Pei
Monochrome printing
17. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
rhythm
Color field painting artists
Sfumato
intaglio
18. 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.
Baroque painting
Albert Durer
Pastel
Mississippian
19. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Hagia Sophia
Depression era Artists
Frida Kahlo
binder
20. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Joseph Beuys
Gel medium
Wood and bronze
Emphasis
21. Rene Magritte
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Describe the process of fresco
Mayan
Wedging
22. Symmetrical balance
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23. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Emphasis
Cement
Japanese art and buildings
Ceramic - Sgraffito
24. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Carving Tools
Depression art
Palace of Versaille
Paint Extender
25. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Shade
Another term used for buddhist temple
Loom
Thomas Gainsborough
26. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Armature
gesso
Social Murals
Croquis
27. 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
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Dry Point
Pop artists
28. Huge stones
megalith
Encaustic
Pastel
Degas and Cassett
29. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Women artist of the 19th century
Assemblage
Elements of Art
Basic Elements of Sculpture
30. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Sfumato
Chiaroscuro
Yarn
Known Rodin prints
31. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Pastel
CMYK
William Blake
32. A form of painting in which tiny dots of primary - colors are used to generate secondary colors. It is very similar to Divisionism - except that where Divisionism is concerned with color theory - Pointillism is more focused on the specific style of b
Gothic Cathedrals
Palace of Versaille
Pointillism
I.M. Pei
33. 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
Social Realism
Frida Kahlo
Gouache
Baroque painting
34. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
Islam art
CMYK
Depression era Artists
Albert Durer
35. 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.
Albert Durer
CMYK
Corinthian columns
Designed the Barcelona chair
36. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
gouache
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Artist Proof
Stoneware properties
37. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Equipment used in oil painting
Rice paper
Croquis
Enameling
38. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Designed the Barcelona chair
Safety glasses
Motif
Pop artists
39. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Joseph Beuys
analogous Colors
Depth of Field
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
40. What is another work for low relief?
analogous Colors
Bas
Social Murals
Sulfur
41. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Titan's key works
Value
Encaustic
Batik
42. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Cast concrete - modeling
Armature
Tenebrism
43. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston
Tint
Van Der Zee
value
Abstract Expressionist Artists
44. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
African masks
Mississippian
Shade
Batik
45. 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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46. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
dry - brushing
Crenellation
Hagia Sophia
binder
47. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Mayan
Barabara Krugel
'fat over lean'
Grisaille
48. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
kinds of stones for stone carving
Tenebrism
Facing forward and stiff
Stoneware properties
49. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
Sfumato
Photorealism
three point perspective
Mississippian
50. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
A black line
Rodin
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
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