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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. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
weft
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Neoclassical
2. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Chiaroscuro
film speed
Tint
3. 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.
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
gouache
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Film Speed
4. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Cast concrete - modeling
The post - and - lintel system
Frottage
5. Most common oil in oil paints
best resolution in a digital photo?
Charcoal pen
Rodin
Linseed oil
6. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
Greenware
Corinthian columns
slip
aquatint
7. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
Mayan
intaglio
Depression art
Joseph Beuys
8. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
stain glass in a cathedral
Stoneware
Depression art
frisket
9. Continuous frieze
Cement
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Barabara Krugel
Column of Trajan
10. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Value
Linseed oil
Brushed used in oil painting
Tenebrism
11. 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
Titan's key works
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Encaustic
William Blake
12. 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
Ionic columns
Rodin
Fire clay
Depression art
13. 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
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Carving Tools
Film Speed
Michelangelo
14. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Pop artists
Film Speed
Adena Indian habitats
Pumice
15. Focused on the depiction of patterns and Arabic calligraphy - rather than on figures - because it is feared by many Muslims that the depiction of the human form is idolatry and thereby a sin against God - forbidden in the Qur'an.
Islam art
Depression era Artists
Mayan
gesso
16. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Esquisse
Charcoal pen
Rice paper
Gothic Cathedrals
17. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Charcoal pen
Pumice
Design Principles
18. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Forms of Charcoal
Brown
Shade
Gothic Cathedrals
19. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
Thomas Gainsborough
Designed the Barcelona chair
Jewelry tools
David Hockney
20. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Equipment used in oil painting
Pointillism
Mayan
Tenebrism
21. 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.
Aperture
dry - brushing
Kinetic art
CMYK
22. A painting medium in which pigment is mixed with water - soluble glutinous materials such as size or egg yolk. Also called poster color - poster paint.
Carving Tools
Tempera paint
Adena Indian habitats
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
23. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
Kinetic art
warp
stain glass in a cathedral
rhythm
24. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Designed the Barcelona chair
Dagyuerrotype
Principle of Art
Stoneware
25. 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
Collage
Joseph Beuys
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
26. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
Kinetic art
Baroque painting
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Used to protect pastel artwork
27. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Assemblage
Encaustic
Monochrome printing
Principle of Art
28. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Dagyuerrotype
Egg Tempera
Stoneware properties
29. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Dry Point
Camera Obscura
Islam art
Film Speed
30. AP on an art product means what
Collage
Acrylic paint
Artist Proof
Column of Trajan
31. Origin is Mayan
Monochrome printing
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Describe the process of fresco
Stepped Pyramid Temples
32. 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.
Embroidery
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Assemblage
Photogravure
33. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
Facing forward and stiff
Isocephaly
Sulfur
aquatint
34. Fix
Used to protect pastel artwork
Encaustic
Rough paper
Bas
35. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Palace of Versaille
Rice paper
Brushed used in oil painting
weft
36. 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
Rococo
Rembrandt
A black line
Esquisse
37. 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
Charcoal pen
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Tenebrism
38. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
Tenebrism
Rice paper
Pastel
Water
39. 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.
Photorealism
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Greenware
Pastel
40. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
film speed
Japanese art and buildings
Lotus postition
Environmental Art
41. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
Cast concrete - modeling
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Collage
Equipment used in oil painting
42. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
'fat over lean'
Paint Extender
Forms of Charcoal
Pop artists
43. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Grisaille
Shutter Speed
Wood and bronze
Used to protect pastel artwork
44. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Describe the process of fresco
Safety glasses
value
Cast concrete - modeling
45. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
Doric columns
A black line
Joseph Beuys
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
46. To make a quick sketch
balance
Lotus postition
Croquis
Chiaroscuro
47. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Dagyuerrotype
Kinetic art
Gouache
48. 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'.
Trompe - l'oil
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
intaglio
CMYK
49. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Meyer Schapiro
Tenebrism
Rotunda
Used to protect pastel artwork
50. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
intaglio
Charcoal pen
Gothic Cathedrals
Armature