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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. A ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both. Ancient Ea ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the su
Pumice
Enameling
the golden section (architecture)
Rococo
2. Gouge and chisel
Batik
Stoneware
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Carving Tools
3. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
vehicle
Safety glasses
Used to protect pastel artwork
4. Example of baroque architecture
Camera Obscura
slip
chromatic gray
Palace of Versaille
5. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
Rotunda
Bas
A black line
the golden section (architecture)
6. The central area of a church
Tessera
Palace of Versaille
nave
Column of Trajan
7. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Shutter Speed
Social Murals
Fire clay
Cast concrete - modeling
8. What city had the first skyscraper?
megalith
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Abstract Expressionist Artists
9. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
Dagyuerrotype
kinds of stones for stone carving
film speed
Home Insurance Building in NYC
10. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
weft
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
A black line
Women artist of the 19th century
11. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
slip
Wood and bronze
Crenellation
Linear perspective
12. Is a circle - shaped opening in a lens (a hole - really) through which light passes to strike the film. The size of the aperture is expressed as an f - number - like f/8 or f/11.
Social Murals
Aperture
Printmaking Techniques
binder
13. Huge stones
Elements of Art
binder
Carving Tools
megalith
14. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
William Blake
Mississippian
Motif
analogous Colors
15. Origin is Mayan
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Stepped Pyramid Temples
analogous Colors
Doric columns
16. Pagoda
kinds of stones for stone carving
Another term used for buddhist temple
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Tapestry
17. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Michelangelo
Dry Point
Yarn
kinds of stones for stone carving
18. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Photogravure
Sulfur
Cement
Women artist of the 19th century
19. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Facing forward and stiff
Artists associated with Pointillism
'fat over lean'
African Benin Sculputure
20. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
kinds of stones for stone carving
'fat over lean'
value
I.M. Pei
21. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Joseph Beuys
Rodin
Wood and bronze
Charcoal pen
22. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
value
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Artists associated with Pointillism
Depression art
23. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Monochrome printing
Meyer Schapiro
Joseph Beuys
Georgian Style
24. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
Rotunda
Color field painting artists
stain glass in a cathedral
Home Insurance Building in NYC
25. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
scumbling
Principle of Art
stain glass in a cathedral
26. 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.
Rough paper
Michelangelo
the golden section (architecture)
Embroidery
27. Sculptor. Major Work: The Thinker - a naturalist - less concerned with monumental expression than with character and emotion. Departing with centuries of tradition - he turned away from the idealism of the Greeks - and the decorative beauty of the Ba
film speed
Rodin
Cement
Home Insurance Building in NYC
28. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Croquis
Tapestry
Degas and Cassett
Emphasis
29. 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
chromatic gray
Corinthian columns
Georgian Style
30. The second oldest medium after encaustic. It was used by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks and perfected by the icon painters during the last 100 years of the old Byzantine Empire (400 AD-1202 AD).
Van Der Zee
Egg Tempera
Women artist of the 19th century
The Renaissance
31. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
gouache
I.M. Pei
stain glass in a cathedral
Joseph Beuys
32. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Rodin
Cast concrete - modeling
Georgian Style
Ceramic glaze
33. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston
Islam art
Barabara Krugel
Bas
Abstract Expressionist Artists
34. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Enameling
Photogravure
Rough paper
Assemblage
35. A dominant idea or central theme
Motif
Embroidery
Shade
Enameling
36. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Julio Gonzalez
Pumice
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
film speed
37. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Tenebrism
Emphasis
Facing forward and stiff
Rough paper
38. 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
Frida Kahlo
Hagia Sophia
Romanesque Cathedrals
African masks
39. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Frida Kahlo
The post - and - lintel system
Van Der Zee
Loom
40. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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41. What color do two secondary colors make?
Brown
Describe the process of fresco
Aperture
Elements of Art
42. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Armature
Principle of Art
Forms of Charcoal
Depression art
43. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
Monochrome printing
Romanesque
rhythm
Rabbit Skin Glue
44. Fix
Used to protect pastel artwork
Facing forward and stiff
Albert Durer
Gothic Cathedrals
45. Air - dry unfired clay
gesso
Mississippian
Depression era Artists
Greenware
46. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Georgian Style
Romanesque
Sulfur
Equipment used in oil painting
47. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Facing forward and stiff
Palace of Versaille
modeling
48. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Tempera paint
Esquisse
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Carving Tools
49. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
Printmaking Techniques
intermediate colors
Rotunda
Women artist of the 19th century
50. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
value
Another term used for buddhist temple
Grisaille
Turpentine