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Praxis 2 Art
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1. 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).
Pumice
Stoneware
Egg Tempera
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
2. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Parchment
film speed
Linear perspective
slip
3. Fix
Used to protect pastel artwork
David Hockney
scumbling
Tessera
4. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Gouache
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Jewelry tools
Wood and bronze
5. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
The post - and - lintel system
Design Elements
Pointillism
Rice paper
6. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Encaustic
Gothic Cathedrals
Barabara Krugel
Grisaille
7. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Color field painting artists
nave
Grisaille
8. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
Stepped Pyramid Temples
African Benin Sculputure
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Dome
9. Made out of Metal
African Benin Sculputure
Adena Indian habitats
gouache
Appropriation Art
10. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Trompe - l'oil
intaglio
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Designed the Barcelona chair
11. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
intaglio
Parchment
Principle of Art
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
12. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
Women artist of the 19th century
Tenebrism
wedging the clay
warp
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.
Color field painting artists
Romanesque Cathedrals
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
dry - brushing
14. What color do two secondary colors make?
Artists associated with Pointillism
Barabara Krugel
best resolution in a digital photo?
Brown
15. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Grisaille
Encaustic
gouache
16. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
analogous Colors
Linseed oil
Scoring
slip
17. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
Grisaille
Chiaroscuro
rhythm
Forms of Charcoal
18. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Gothic Cathedrals
Loom
Mayan
Enameling
19. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Meyer Schapiro
Design Elements
Mayan
Gouache
20. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
Dome
Women artist of the 19th century
Photogravure
Emphasis
21. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Baroque painting
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Wedging
Dagyuerrotype
22. Who said ' less is more'?
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Brown
Barabara Krugel
23. 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
Dome
slip
Baroque painting
Design Elements
24. Most common oil in oil paints
Gothic Cathedrals
Linseed oil
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Cement
25. 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'.
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Emphasis
Paint Extender
Rembrandt
26. 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
Rice paper
Japanese art and buildings
Rotunda
Rococo
27. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Linear perspective
Van Der Zee
Mayan
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
28. AP on an art product means what
Artist Proof
Baroque painting
Dagyuerrotype
Mayan
29. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
Mississippian
aquatint
I.M. Pei
Romanesque Cathedrals
30. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Gel medium
Fire clay
Environmental Art
Brushed used in oil painting
31. The central area of a church
Safety glasses
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
nave
Shutter Speed
32. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
Camera Obscura
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Barabara Krugel
analogous Colors
33. Possin was a French painter in the classical style.Themes of tragedy and death are prevalent in Poussin's work.[13] Et in Arcadia ego - a subject he painted twice (second version is seen at right) - exemplifies his cerebral approach. In this composit
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34. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
Corinthian columns
The Renaissance
Embroidery
three point perspective
35. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
gesso
Tempera paint
Artist Proof
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
36. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Mayan
Thomas Gainsborough
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Gouache
37. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Mayan
Palace of Versaille
Doric columns
Safety glasses
38. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
Forms of Charcoal
aquatint
Ionic columns
Equipment used in oil painting
39. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Yarn
Social Realism
Armature
Water
40. Example of baroque architecture
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Design Principles
Paint Extender
Palace of Versaille
41. 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
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
the golden section (architecture)
David Hockney
Turpentine
42. 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.
Aperture
Rabbit Skin Glue
scumbling
Describe the process of fresco
43. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
binder
Wood and bronze
Column of Trajan
Jewelry tools
44. 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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45. A ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both. Ancient Ea ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the su
slip
CMYK
Sfumato
the golden section (architecture)
46. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Dagyuerrotype
gesso
Wood and bronze
Tapestry
47. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
Titan's key works
Parchment
Kinetic art
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
48. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Stoneware properties
frisket
kinds of stones for stone carving
Batik
49. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
warp
gouache
Gothic Cathedrals
Cement
50. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Shade
Tempera paint
The post - and - lintel system
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture