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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
analogous Colors
Photogravure
Rabbit Skin Glue
2. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
CMYK
aquatint
Camera Obscura
Kinetic art
3. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
vehicle
William Blake
Cement
Stepped Pyramid Temples
4. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Mississippian
Depth of Field
Color field painting artists
5. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Rembrandt
Thomas Gainsborough
Social Realism
6. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Pumice
intaglio
Enameling
Basic Elements of Sculpture
7. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Assemblage
Grisaille
Croquis
Encaustic
8. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Pop artists
Depression era Artists
9. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
intaglio
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Rotunda
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
10. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Parchment
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Photogravure
Basquiat
11. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Adena Indian habitats
Baroque painting
Column of Trajan
Pop artists
12. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
balance
Enameling
Thomas Gainsborough
Pastel
13. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Fire clay
nave
Designed the Barcelona chair
Hagia Sophia
14. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
Sfumato
intermediate colors
The post - and - lintel system
Stoneware
15. 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.
Dry Point
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Cement
dry - brushing
16. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Design Elements
Column of Trajan
Design Principles
Esquisse
17. What is another work for low relief?
Facing forward and stiff
Thomas Gainsborough
Monochrome printing
Bas
18. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Tint
Bas
Japanese art and buildings
Barabara Krugel
19. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Japanese art and buildings
Artist Proof
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Shade
20. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Printmaking Techniques
Romanesque
Adena Indian habitats
Rice paper
21. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
wedging the clay
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Pumice
slip
22. 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
Designed the Barcelona chair
intaglio
Yarn
23. 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.
Yarn
Appropriation Art
Sfumato
Designed the Barcelona chair
24. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Stoneware
Brown
Japanese art and buildings
Tempera paint
25. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
A black line
Pumice
balance
Charcoal pen
26. Who made large portraits of friends?
Titan's key works
Home Insurance Building in NYC
David Hockney
Armature
27. What city had the first skyscraper?
Cast concrete - modeling
Isocephaly
Value
Home Insurance Building in NYC
28. What color do two secondary colors make?
Georgian Style
Principle of Art
Brown
Dome
29. The laying of paint thickly
Lotus postition
Impasto
Romanesque
Islam art
30. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Brushed used in oil painting
Rotunda
Motif
Film Speed
31. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
Lotus postition
Corinthian columns
Another term used for buddhist temple
Tempera paint
32. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Hagia Sophia
Social Murals
Gouache
Facing forward and stiff
33. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Gel medium
Rabbit Skin Glue
Georgian Style
Paint Extender
34. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
Neoclassical
African masks
Albert Durer
Assemblage
35. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Pumice
Julio Gonzalez
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
frisket
36. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Mayan
Wood and bronze
Romantic Era
Social Realism
37. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
Rice paper
stain glass in a cathedral
Emphasis
African Benin Sculputure
38. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Van Der Zee
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
'fat over lean'
Basic Elements of Sculpture
39. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Depth of Field
Romanesque
Describe the process of fresco
nave
40. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Jewelry tools
Batik
Gothic Cathedrals
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
41. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Depression art
Meyer Schapiro
Islam art
Monochrome printing
42. 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
Linear perspective
Facing forward and stiff
William Blake
Turpentine
43. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
slip
Depth of Field
the golden section (architecture)
Wedging
44. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Julio Gonzalez
binder
aquatint
Film Speed
45. 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
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Ionic columns
Romanesque Cathedrals
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
46. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Embroidery
Rembrandt
weft
Romanesque
47. Gouge and chisel
Photorealism
Monochrome printing
Carving Tools
Hagia Sophia
48. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Designed the Barcelona chair
Chiaroscuro
Albert Durer
Batik
49. 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.
Esquisse
scumbling
Pop artists
Dagyuerrotype
50. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Rough paper
vehicle
Film Speed
analogous Colors