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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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1. AP on an art product means what
Meyer Schapiro
Artist Proof
Rembrandt
Egg Tempera
2. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Joseph Beuys
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Women artist of the 19th century
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
3. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
scumbling
Used to protect pastel artwork
Brushed used in oil painting
Croquis
4. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Social Murals
Scoring
Photogravure
Appropriation Art
5. 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).
Assemblage
warp
Gouache
Egg Tempera
6. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Degas and Cassett
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Romanesque Cathedrals
7. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston
Hagia Sophia
Jewelry tools
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Michelangelo
8. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Photorealism
weft
9. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Environmental Art
Frida Kahlo
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Home Insurance Building in NYC
10. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Rabbit Skin Glue
Sulfur
Egg Tempera
Julio Gonzalez
11. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Design Principles
rhythm
scumbling
12. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
William Blake
Basquiat
Chiaroscuro
Gothic Cathedrals
13. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Elements of Art
Printmaking Techniques
three point perspective
14. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Dry Point
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Wedging
Sulfur
15. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Palace of Versaille
Ionic columns
Doric columns
Facing forward and stiff
16. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Rice paper
Tapestry
Used to protect pastel artwork
Rococo
17. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
frisket
African Benin Sculputure
slip
Tessera
18. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Environmental Art
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Emphasis
Rabbit Skin Glue
19. Most common oil in oil paints
Linseed oil
gouache
Photogravure
Gel medium
20. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
African masks
Rotunda
analogous Colors
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
21. To make a quick sketch
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Design Elements
Armature
Croquis
22. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
Basquiat
Jewelry tools
megalith
Grisaille
23. What city had the first skyscraper?
The Renaissance
Wedging
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Home Insurance Building in NYC
24. 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
Collage
Joseph Beuys
Design Principles
25. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
slip
Yarn
Collage
26. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Frida Kahlo
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Assemblage
'fat over lean'
27. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Linear perspective
frisket
Wood and bronze
Adena Indian habitats
28. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
Romantic Era
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Pastel
African Benin Sculputure
29. 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
warp
Corinthian columns
Islam art
Tenebrism
30. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Forms of Charcoal
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Lotus postition
Egg Tempera
31. Woven wall hangings.
Film Speed
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Social Murals
Tapestry
32. Made out of Metal
African Benin Sculputure
Environmental Art
Carving Tools
Romanesque Cathedrals
33. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Film Speed
Georgian Style
Grisaille
Tint
34. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Equipment used in oil painting
Women artist of the 19th century
Tempera paint
35. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
chromatic gray
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Depth of Field
Depression art
36. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Pop artists
Frida Kahlo
Adena Indian habitats
Basic Elements of Sculpture
37. 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.
Pointillism
balance
Rodin
Film Speed
38. 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
Japanese art and buildings
Romanesque
binder
Monochrome printing
39. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Sfumato
Islam art
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Designed the Barcelona chair
40. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Isocephaly
Tapestry
Film Speed
Safety glasses
41. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
Mayan
Dagyuerrotype
Grisaille
I.M. Pei
42. 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
Collage
Acrylic paint
Elements of Art
43. A dominant idea or central theme
Rodin
Frida Kahlo
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Motif
44. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Encaustic
Describe the process of fresco
Hagia Sophia
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
45. Symmetrical balance
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46. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Linseed oil
Rough paper
Wood and bronze
Stepped Pyramid Temples
47. Came in response to the darkness and heaviness of Baroque art - but did continue many of the ideals specified during the 17th century. Rococo related much more to decorative shapes as well as the natural and organic. Swirling shapes and asymmetrical
'fat over lean'
Rococo
Tessera
Doric columns
48. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Frottage
nave
Armature
Michelangelo
49. In oil painting - the technique of brushing one layer of paint on top of another in a way that reveals some of the under color.
Neoclassical
gouache
scumbling
Stoneware
50. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
modeling
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Impasto
Scoring