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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Tint
Palace of Versaille
Used to protect pastel artwork
Degas and Cassett
2. Huge stones
Rough paper
Carving Tools
value
megalith
3. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Titan's key works
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Crenellation
scumbling
4. Made out of Metal
Brushed used in oil painting
nave
Cement
African Benin Sculputure
5. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Mississippian
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
three point perspective
Batik
6. 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.
Albert Durer
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Describe the process of fresco
Aperture
7. Symmetrical balance
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8. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light. More sensitive (faster) films have higher ISO numbers and require less exposure in order to make a properly - exposed picture.
Sulfur
warp
Aperture
Film Speed
9. 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.
CMYK
Albert Durer
Ceramic - Sgraffito
three point perspective
10. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
Tapestry
The Renaissance
vehicle
slip
11. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
African masks
Ceramic glaze
Another term used for buddhist temple
best resolution in a digital photo?
12. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Dagyuerrotype
Grisaille
Loom
Michelangelo
13. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
best resolution in a digital photo?
Titan's key works
Ionic columns
Artists associated with Pointillism
14. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
analogous Colors
Pastel
CMYK
15. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
intaglio
Social Realism
Column of Trajan
Assemblage
16. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
African Benin Sculputure
Facing forward and stiff
frisket
Forms of Charcoal
17. Statuettes were mostly used for two purposes: to incarnate a spirit of the bush - and the second was to represent a spouse from the other world 'Blolo Bla' or 'Blolo Bian'.
modeling
Meyer Schapiro
Esquisse
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
18. Gouge and chisel
chromatic gray
Carving Tools
slip
Wedging
19. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
Dagyuerrotype
nave
kinds of stones for stone carving
Julio Gonzalez
20. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
Wedging
Rodin
aquatint
Rotunda
21. Gray made by mixing complements
intermediate colors
Fire clay
Meyer Schapiro
chromatic gray
22. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
Hardbrick
Photogravure
kinds of stones for stone carving
warp
23. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Column of Trajan
Yarn
Scoring
Corinthian columns
24. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
Impasto
Tapestry
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Cast concrete - modeling
25. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
Facing forward and stiff
Georgian Style
Palace of Versaille
Lotus postition
26. 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
Appropriation Art
Elements of Art
Aperture
27. Example of baroque architecture
Palace of Versaille
Rabbit Skin Glue
warp
Dagyuerrotype
28. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Photogravure
David Hockney
Basquiat
Equipment used in oil painting
29. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
Printmaking Techniques
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
slip
Dry Point
30. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
Gel medium
gouache
Baroque painting
Home Insurance Building in NYC
31. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Gouache
balance
Rough paper
Social Realism
32. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
analogous Colors
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Mayan
33. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Romantic Era
Cast concrete - modeling
Women artist of the 19th century
stain glass in a cathedral
34. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Pumice
Carving Tools
Parchment
35. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
Depression era Artists
Tempera paint
Assemblage
Depression art
36. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
megalith
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Rembrandt
Wood and bronze
37. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Fire clay
Encaustic
Social Murals
Enameling
38. 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.
Rodin
weft
Embroidery
Carving Tools
39. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
intaglio
weft
Forms of Charcoal
Islam art
40. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Esquisse
Social Murals
Known Rodin prints
Elements of Art
41. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Forms of Charcoal
Thomas Gainsborough
Jewelry tools
42. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Hagia Sophia
Environmental Art
Crenellation
43. 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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44. Who said ' less is more'?
Meyer Schapiro
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
kinds of stones for stone carving
Gel medium
45. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Chiaroscuro
Aperture
Grisaille
Barabara Krugel
46. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
Equipment used in oil painting
three point perspective
Palace of Versaille
modeling
47. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
Cast concrete - modeling
Neoclassical
rhythm
Women artist of the 19th century
48. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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49. Who made large portraits of friends?
Tessera
David Hockney
Wood and bronze
dry - brushing
50. Possin was a French painter in the classical style.Themes of tragedy and death are prevalent in Poussin's work.[13] Et in Arcadia ego - a subject he painted twice (second version is seen at right) - exemplifies his cerebral approach. In this composit
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