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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 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
Column of Trajan
Designed the Barcelona chair
Rodin
three point perspective
2. 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
Depth of Field
Elements of Art
Neoclassical
3. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Environmental Art
Doric columns
Romantic Era
Design Elements
4. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Designed the Barcelona chair
Greenware
analogous Colors
5. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Design Principles
Tint
Gel medium
slip
6. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
chromatic gray
Rotunda
Equipment used in oil painting
7. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
Pop artists
binder
David Hockney
Dagyuerrotype
8. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Known Rodin prints
Stoneware
Color field painting
weft
9. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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10. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
binder
Sulfur
Kinetic art
Tapestry
11. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
Croquis
Joseph Beuys
Trompe - l'oil
The post - and - lintel system
12. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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13. 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.
Rotunda
dry - brushing
Designed the Barcelona chair
Encaustic
14. 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).
Japanese art and buildings
Brown
Artist Proof
Egg Tempera
15. 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'.
Dagyuerrotype
warp
Chiaroscuro
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
16. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
David Hockney
nave
Gel medium
Wood and bronze
17. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Chiaroscuro
African masks
Depression art
Brushed used in oil painting
18. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
Gel medium
Thomas Gainsborough
Tessera
Mississippian
19. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Linear perspective
Wedging
film speed
20. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Egg Tempera
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
CMYK
Design Elements
21. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?
Cast concrete - modeling
Wedging
Sulfur
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
22. Symmetrical balance
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23. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
intermediate colors
Corinthian columns
Rodin
24. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Sulfur
Fire clay
Encaustic
Dagyuerrotype
25. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Meyer Schapiro
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
value
three point perspective
26. Robert Smithson
Another term used for buddhist temple
vehicle
Rembrandt
constructed the Spiral Jetty
27. Meaning to rub a crayon or other tool onto paper or other material - which is placed onto a textured surface - in order to create the texture of that surface on the paper.
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Frottage
intaglio
Van Der Zee
28. 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
Forms of Charcoal
Michelangelo
three point perspective
Tenebrism
29. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
Photorealism
warp
Rotunda
Sulfur
30. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Rough paper
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Barabara Krugel
Dome
31. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Dagyuerrotype
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Shade
Photogravure
32. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Crenellation
Barabara Krugel
Batik
Principle of Art
33. AP on an art product means what
Artist Proof
Linear perspective
Motif
Designed the Barcelona chair
34. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Romantic Era
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Embroidery
Gothic Cathedrals
35. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
value
three point perspective
African Benin Sculputure
Photorealism
36. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
Joseph Beuys
frisket
Basquiat
Brown
37. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Grisaille
Titan's key works
Brushed used in oil painting
Chiaroscuro
38. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Cement
Describe the process of fresco
Dagyuerrotype
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
39. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Armature
Joseph Beuys
Design Principles
Doric columns
40. 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
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Rococo
Japanese art and buildings
Gothic Cathedrals
41. Who said ' less is more'?
Isocephaly
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Acrylic paint
Greenware
42. The central area of a church
Printmaking Techniques
Batik
nave
Impasto
43. Made out of Metal
Water
African Benin Sculputure
A black line
Assemblage
44. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
Corinthian columns
Linseed oil
Brushed used in oil painting
Enameling
45. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Yarn
Printmaking Techniques
Hagia Sophia
rhythm
46. 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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47. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
Mayan
gesso
Stoneware properties
constructed the Spiral Jetty
48. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
Romanesque Cathedrals
rhythm
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
49. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
CMYK
Rembrandt
Rococo
Japanese art and buildings
50. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
Facing forward and stiff
Van Der Zee
modeling
kinds of stones for stone carving