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Praxis 2 Art
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1. Rene Magritte
Depression art
Georgian Style
Adena Indian habitats
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
2. 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
rhythm
Kinetic art
Forms of Charcoal
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
3. Used in water printing
Acrylic paint
Pumice
Used to protect pastel artwork
Principle of Art
4. Air - dry unfired clay
Pointillism
Greenware
wedging the clay
Turpentine
5. 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
Charcoal pen
Assemblage
Artists associated with Pointillism
Michelangelo
6. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
Facing forward and stiff
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Van Der Zee
weft
7. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
gouache
Baroque painting
Scoring
Tenebrism
8. 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
Baroque painting
Bas
Emphasis
Rabbit Skin Glue
9. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
I.M. Pei
Monochrome printing
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
binder
10. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Depression era Artists
Adena Indian habitats
Tint
Romanesque Cathedrals
11. rayons resistant to what?
Adena Indian habitats
Water
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
12. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Pop artists
Brown
Artist Proof
Georgian Style
13. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
Scoring
Titan's key works
gesso
Pastel
14. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Sulfur
Design Principles
Environmental Art
Describe the process of fresco
15. 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.
Film Speed
Titan's key works
balance
binder
16. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Frida Kahlo
Ceramic glaze
scumbling
Bas
17. Pagoda
Georgian Style
Ceramic glaze
Another term used for buddhist temple
Wood and bronze
18. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Equipment used in oil painting
Forms of Charcoal
Embroidery
Mississippian
19. 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.
Wedging
Tessera
Monochrome printing
Photorealism
20. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Loom
Frida Kahlo
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Joseph Beuys
21. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Armature
Degas and Cassett
African masks
Wood and bronze
22. Used her life experiences into her artwork - including her marriage - her miscarriages - and her numerous operations - works often are characterized by their stark portrayals of pain - combined elements of the classic religious Mexican tradition with
Thomas Gainsborough
analogous Colors
Frida Kahlo
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
23. Origin is Mayan
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Frottage
Isocephaly
24. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Printmaking Techniques
Stoneware
Pointillism
25. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Tempera paint
Used to protect pastel artwork
Collage
Artists associated with Pointillism
26. A painting medium in which pigment is mixed with water - soluble glutinous materials such as size or egg yolk. Also called poster color - poster paint.
Tempera paint
warp
modeling
Appropriation Art
27. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Corinthian columns
stain glass in a cathedral
Esquisse
constructed the Spiral Jetty
28. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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29. Who said ' less is more'?
Appropriation Art
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Crenellation
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
30. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Dagyuerrotype
Embroidery
Rococo
Rotunda
31. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Basquiat
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Designed the Barcelona chair
Isocephaly
32. Made out of Metal
Shade
Abstract Expressionist Artists
African Benin Sculputure
modeling
33. 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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34. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
film speed
dry - brushing
Romanesque
Depth of Field
35. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Depression art
Wedging
Another term used for buddhist temple
Rembrandt
36. AP on an art product means what
Artist Proof
Cement
Depth of Field
Romanesque Cathedrals
37. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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38. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Sulfur
Cast concrete - modeling
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Neoclassical
39. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Dry Point
megalith
40. Who made large portraits of friends?
David Hockney
Julio Gonzalez
Camera Obscura
Rough paper
41. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
vehicle
Frida Kahlo
Crenellation
Scoring
42. A German performance artist - sculptor - installation artist - graphic artist - art theorist and pedagogue of art. Artwork: Performance : How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare
Linear perspective
Artist Proof
Joseph Beuys
aquatint
43. 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.
Sulfur
Thomas Gainsborough
Embroidery
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
44. The laying of paint thickly
Impasto
Ceramic glaze
Photorealism
African Benin Sculputure
45. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
Michelangelo
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
megalith
Greenware
46. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
African masks
Gouache
Film Speed
rhythm
47. A dominant idea or central theme
Baroque painting
frisket
Rodin
Motif
48. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Value
Japanese art and buildings
Mayan
49. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
rhythm
The Renaissance
Adena Indian habitats
Charcoal pen
50. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Camera Obscura
Dry Point
Gothic Cathedrals
Describe the process of fresco
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