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Praxis 2 Art
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1. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
Paint Extender
Shade
CMYK
Ceramic - Sgraffito
2. 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
Printmaking Techniques
Gouache
Enameling
3. Who made large portraits of friends?
Principle of Art
binder
David Hockney
Carving Tools
4. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
Romanesque Cathedrals
Michelangelo
Japanese art and buildings
vehicle
5. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
Parchment
gesso
Enameling
Georgian Style
6. Cyan - Magenta - Yellow - Key (blacK). This ystem is used for printing. For mixing of pigments - it is better to use the secondary colours - since they mix subtractively instead of additively.
balance
CMYK
megalith
Wedging
7. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Shade
Photorealism
Rough paper
Collage
8. 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
Design Elements
Principle of Art
Rococo
Japanese art and buildings
9. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
three point perspective
stain glass in a cathedral
Social Realism
aquatint
10. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
Monochrome printing
modeling
Dry Point
Fire clay
11. A form of painting in which tiny dots of primary - colors are used to generate secondary colors. It is very similar to Divisionism - except that where Divisionism is concerned with color theory - Pointillism is more focused on the specific style of b
Mississippian
Color field painting
Pointillism
Appropriation Art
12. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
analogous Colors
intaglio
Appropriation Art
best resolution in a digital photo?
13. Most common oil in oil paints
the golden section (architecture)
Linseed oil
balance
megalith
14. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Pop artists
Aperture
Pointillism
Van Der Zee
15. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
Islam art
three point perspective
Crenellation
Chiaroscuro
16. A dominant idea or central theme
slip
African masks
Embroidery
Motif
17. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
megalith
Design Principles
Gel medium
Rabbit Skin Glue
18. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Printmaking Techniques
Tessera
the golden section (architecture)
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
19. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Titan's key works
Shutter Speed
Pumice
Julio Gonzalez
20. 3X 5300 pixels
Tapestry
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
best resolution in a digital photo?
21. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
Women artist of the 19th century
weft
Kinetic art
Equipment used in oil painting
22. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Photogravure
Kinetic art
Esquisse
23. An art and design principle concerned with the arrangement of one or more elements in a work of art so that they appear symmetrical (even) or asymmetrical (uneven) in design and proportion.
balance
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Water
Ionic columns
24. What city had the first skyscraper?
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Rice paper
Dagyuerrotype
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
25. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
Dome
film speed
Equipment used in oil painting
African masks
26. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Chiaroscuro
modeling
I.M. Pei
Ceramic - Sgraffito
27. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
balance
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Basquiat
Monochrome printing
28. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Social Murals
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Elements of Art
Romanesque Cathedrals
29. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Julio Gonzalez
Wedging
Rabbit Skin Glue
30. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Tenebrism
Color field painting artists
Printmaking Techniques
Trompe - l'oil
31. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
Dry Point
gouache
Mississippian
stain glass in a cathedral
32. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
African Benin Sculputure
Albert Durer
The post - and - lintel system
Artist Proof
33. 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
Gouache
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
weft
Tempera paint
34. Neo expressionist artist - Jean - Michel Basquiat was an American painter who rose to fame in the 1980s - and was the first African - American artist to gain international acclaim. His emotionally - charged paintings gave rise to graffiti art and the
Basquiat
Brown
Design Principles
Linear perspective
35. Woven wall hangings.
Gouache
Forms of Charcoal
Depth of Field
Tapestry
36. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Encaustic
Ceramic glaze
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Known Rodin prints
37. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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38. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Doric columns
Known Rodin prints
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
39. Robert Smithson
Wood and bronze
Describe the process of fresco
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Fire clay
40. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
modeling
Jewelry tools
intaglio
aquatint
41. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Yarn
Carving Tools
Monochrome printing
Barabara Krugel
42. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Jewelry tools
Hardbrick
Emphasis
Crenellation
43. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Assemblage
Cement
Social Realism
Hardbrick
44. 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
Islam art
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Jewelry tools
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
45. 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
Albert Durer
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Barabara Krugel
Michelangelo
46. 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.
binder
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
vehicle
scumbling
47. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
Safety glasses
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Motif
Turpentine
48. 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
Romanesque Cathedrals
Shutter Speed
Gouache
Photogravure
49. What goes horizontal across a loom?
The post - and - lintel system
analogous Colors
aquatint
Yarn
50. Continuous frieze
Appropriation Art
Wood and bronze
Column of Trajan
Used to protect pastel artwork