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Praxis 2 Art
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1. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Appropriation Art
I.M. Pei
Aperture
Titan's key works
2. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
The Renaissance
aquatint
Neoclassical
Impasto
3. Made by Gustav Eiffel - Eiffel - marks the centennial celebration of the French Revolution. Liberty - iconic symbol of freedom and of the United States. French gave the US - statue of liberty
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Pointillism
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
warp
4. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Elements of Art
Stoneware
Describe the process of fresco
Mayan
5. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Color field painting
Cement
Mayan
Design Elements
6. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
A black line
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Rococo
Aperture
7. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
stain glass in a cathedral
intermediate colors
Brushed used in oil painting
film speed
8. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Fire clay
Rice paper
Crenellation
intaglio
9. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Grisaille
Photogravure
weft
Rembrandt
10. 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.
scumbling
Rodin
Home Insurance Building in NYC
weft
11. 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
Tempera paint
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Mississippian
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
12. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Stoneware
Grisaille
Encaustic
Motif
13. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
Carving Tools
Color field painting artists
William Blake
David Hockney
14. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Social Realism
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Scoring
Used to protect pastel artwork
15. 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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16. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Camera Obscura
Esquisse
Parchment
Mississippian
17. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Mississippian
Camera Obscura
Pointillism
Batik
18. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Armature
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Neoclassical
Enameling
19. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Another term used for buddhist temple
Ionic columns
I.M. Pei
CMYK
20. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Another term used for buddhist temple
Collage
balance
Social Realism
21. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Color field painting
Batik
Sfumato
wedging the clay
22. 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
analogous Colors
Dry Point
William Blake
film speed
23. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Corinthian columns
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Grisaille
Collage
24. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
Gothic Cathedrals
Impasto
Cast concrete - modeling
intermediate colors
25. 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
Scoring
Degas and Cassett
Tenebrism
Linear perspective
26. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
Stoneware
Charcoal pen
Gel medium
gesso
27. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
frisket
slip
Facing forward and stiff
Stoneware properties
28. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
slip
frisket
value
Acrylic paint
29. What is another work for low relief?
Embroidery
Frida Kahlo
Collage
Bas
30. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Lotus postition
Gouache
the golden section (architecture)
Gel medium
31. What color do two secondary colors make?
Rotunda
Social Realism
Brown
Van Der Zee
32. 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
weft
Pumice
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Photogravure
33. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Hagia Sophia
Pop artists
film speed
Charcoal pen
34. 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
wedging the clay
Romanesque
Isocephaly
Cement
35. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
constructed the Spiral Jetty
analogous Colors
Isocephaly
chromatic gray
36. Rene Magritte
Julio Gonzalez
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Printmaking Techniques
intermediate colors
37. The laying of paint thickly
Monochrome printing
Impasto
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Rice paper
38. A dominant idea or central theme
Tenebrism
Motif
Romanesque Cathedrals
Elements of Art
39. Who said ' less is more'?
Dry Point
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The post - and - lintel system
40. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Rice paper
Tapestry
Frida Kahlo
Pumice
41. 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.
The post - and - lintel system
Cast concrete - modeling
Photorealism
Romantic Era
42. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Acrylic paint
Describe the process of fresco
Brushed used in oil painting
43. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Elements of Art
Another term used for buddhist temple
Water
Parchment
44. 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
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Wedging
Color field painting
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
45. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
kinds of stones for stone carving
Appropriation Art
Dry Point
Joseph Beuys
46. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Lotus postition
Yarn
Jewelry tools
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
47. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Pop artists
slip
Fire clay
Neoclassical
48. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Barabara Krugel
Corinthian columns
Rabbit Skin Glue
Column of Trajan
49. Most common oil in oil paints
Charcoal pen
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
kinds of stones for stone carving
Linseed oil
50. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Romantic Era
Photogravure
Cast concrete - modeling
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