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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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1. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Pop artists
Enameling
Rotunda
2. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Photogravure
The post - and - lintel system
the golden section (architecture)
Collage
3. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Dagyuerrotype
Film Speed
Thomas Gainsborough
Assemblage
4. 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
Rodin
Ionic columns
value
Acrylic paint
5. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
intermediate colors
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
A black line
6. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Hagia Sophia
African Benin Sculputure
Basquiat
Linseed oil
7. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
intaglio
Linear perspective
CMYK
Parchment
8. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
African masks
CMYK
Japanese art and buildings
Emphasis
9. 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
Tapestry
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Michelangelo
African Benin Sculputure
10. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Assemblage
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Julio Gonzalez
Titan's key works
11. rayons resistant to what?
warp
Sfumato
Aperture
Water
12. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Safety glasses
Social Murals
Hardbrick
Tint
13. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Depression art
Romanesque Cathedrals
Monochrome printing
dry - brushing
14. What color do two secondary colors make?
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Rough paper
Gouache
Brown
15. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
'fat over lean'
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Facing forward and stiff
Jewelry tools
16. 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
Column of Trajan
Social Murals
Water
17. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
The post - and - lintel system
Motif
Wedging
Artist Proof
18. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Ionic columns
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Georgian Style
Shutter Speed
19. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Shade
frisket
Camera Obscura
stain glass in a cathedral
20. 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.
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Social Realism
Tessera
scumbling
21. 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
best resolution in a digital photo?
Scoring
Rembrandt
Baroque painting
22. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Corinthian columns
Social Realism
Used to protect pastel artwork
Depression era Artists
23. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
frisket
Color field painting artists
wedging the clay
Women artist of the 19th century
24. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Depth of Field
rhythm
Bas
Principle of Art
25. In art - the perception of depth in nature as enhanced by haze in the atmosphere; how the appearance of objects is altered over distance by the effects of the air between the viewer and the object
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Ionic columns
gesso
26. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Paint Extender
Another term used for buddhist temple
Rembrandt
Adena Indian habitats
27. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Grisaille
Emphasis
rhythm
Artist Proof
28. 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.
scumbling
aquatint
Aperture
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
29. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Pumice
Trompe - l'oil
Julio Gonzalez
30. Made out of Metal
Another term used for buddhist temple
scumbling
Camera Obscura
African Benin Sculputure
31. 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
The post - and - lintel system
African masks
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Adena Indian habitats
32. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
kinds of stones for stone carving
Photogravure
aquatint
Rococo
33. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Color field painting artists
African masks
Another term used for buddhist temple
Rabbit Skin Glue
34. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
Cement
frisket
Linear perspective
Sulfur
35. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Rabbit Skin Glue
gesso
Romantic Era
Rice paper
36. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
Rembrandt
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Stoneware properties
Social Murals
37. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
The Renaissance
intaglio
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Camera Obscura
38. Known by its massive quality - its thick walls - round arches - sturdy piers - groin vaults - large towers and decorative arcading. Each building has clearly defined forms and they are frequently of very regular - symmetrical plan so that the overall
frisket
Romanesque Cathedrals
binder
rhythm
39. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Tempera paint
Charcoal pen
stain glass in a cathedral
Adena Indian habitats
40. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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41. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
film speed
Printmaking Techniques
Van Der Zee
Baroque painting
42. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Design Elements
Depth of Field
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Gouache
43. Gray made by mixing complements
Neoclassical
chromatic gray
Depth of Field
Romanesque
44. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Tempera paint
Basquiat
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Dry Point
45. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
African Benin Sculputure
analogous Colors
Describe the process of fresco
Degas and Cassett
46. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
stain glass in a cathedral
Environmental Art
Pumice
Depression art
47. 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).
Known Rodin prints
Egg Tempera
Julio Gonzalez
Jewelry tools
48. 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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49. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Gouache
Describe the process of fresco
three point perspective
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
50. Most common oil in oil paints
Thomas Gainsborough
Gouache
Linseed oil
Corinthian columns