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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. 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
Mississippian
Paint Extender
Tenebrism
Carving Tools
2. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston
wedging the clay
Describe the process of fresco
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Tessera
3. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Armature
Degas and Cassett
Gothic Cathedrals
Pointillism
4. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
Mississippian
modeling
Film Speed
Bas
5. Used in water printing
Acrylic paint
Designed the Barcelona chair
Film Speed
Julio Gonzalez
6. 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
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Motif
Pastel
7. What color do two secondary colors make?
Cement
Linseed oil
Brown
Greenware
8. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
Impasto
Romantic Era
rhythm
Column of Trajan
9. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Thomas Gainsborough
Dagyuerrotype
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Principle of Art
10. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
Yarn
Carving Tools
Rabbit Skin Glue
Turpentine
11. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Japanese art and buildings
Ceramic glaze
Charcoal pen
Women artist of the 19th century
12. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Pointillism
African masks
Bas
Collage
13. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Acrylic paint
Frida Kahlo
Turpentine
Batik
14. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Forms of Charcoal
Value
value
Dome
15. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Thomas Gainsborough
Sfumato
Tessera
African Benin Sculputure
16. 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.
Japanese art and buildings
Embroidery
Emphasis
Charcoal pen
17. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Depth of Field
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Michelangelo
Turpentine
18. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
Mayan
Stoneware properties
Tint
Corinthian columns
19. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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20. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
Romanesque Cathedrals
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Rembrandt
African Benin Sculputure
21. 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
Equipment used in oil painting
film speed
Bas
22. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Describe the process of fresco
Grisaille
Scoring
Tenebrism
23. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Rotunda
megalith
Yarn
24. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
Degas and Cassett
frisket
Mississippian
African Benin Sculputure
25. 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.
Adena Indian habitats
Photorealism
Collage
Pointillism
26. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Appropriation Art
scumbling
megalith
Charcoal pen
27. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Known Rodin prints
Croquis
Photogravure
Appropriation Art
28. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Wedging
Crenellation
warp
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
29. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
wedging the clay
Shade
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Ceramic - Sgraffito
30. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
wedging the clay
gesso
Rabbit Skin Glue
Romanesque Cathedrals
31. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
David Hockney
Assemblage
Social Realism
Tenebrism
32. Woven wall hangings.
Isocephaly
Tapestry
intermediate colors
Social Murals
33. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Equipment used in oil painting
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
chromatic gray
Gothic Cathedrals
34. Considered one of the greatest printmakers of all time. Working with both woodcuts and copper engravings - he attained a level of detail that is virtually unsurpassed.
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Albert Durer
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
gesso
35. 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
Tint
Baroque painting
Adena Indian habitats
Basquiat
36. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Palace of Versaille
Kinetic art
Linear perspective
Wedging
37. The central area of a church
nave
Water
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Stoneware properties
38. Origin is Mayan
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Safety glasses
Depth of Field
Stepped Pyramid Temples
39. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
Linseed oil
Facing forward and stiff
analogous Colors
binder
40. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Wood and bronze
Tint
Film Speed
Encaustic
41. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
I.M. Pei
Ceramic - Sgraffito
The Renaissance
weft
42. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Yarn
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Value
gesso
43. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
The post - and - lintel system
Emphasis
Greenware
44. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Emphasis
Batik
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Georgian Style
45. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
modeling
Collage
Tint
46. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
gesso
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
analogous Colors
Appropriation Art
47. The principle in oil painting that suggests each layer of paint should contain more oil than the one beneath. Awareness of this concept helps ensure permanence.
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48. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Sulfur
Baroque painting
Thomas Gainsborough
Appropriation Art
49. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Designed the Barcelona chair
constructed the Spiral Jetty
value
50. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Basic Elements of Sculpture
megalith
Social Realism
Doric columns