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Praxis 2 Art
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1. Symmetrical balance
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2. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
Social Murals
Rabbit Skin Glue
Ceramic - Sgraffito
wedging the clay
3. 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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4. Fix
rhythm
Corinthian columns
Used to protect pastel artwork
Rough paper
5. 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
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Tessera
kinds of stones for stone carving
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
6. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Women artist of the 19th century
Collage
Depression era Artists
7. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Islam art
Acrylic paint
Gel medium
Basic Elements of Sculpture
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.
rhythm
Brown
Palace of Versaille
Jewelry tools
9. 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
Romantic Era
Shade
Color field painting
Rodin
10. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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11. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Equipment used in oil painting
Cement
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Camera Obscura
12. Gouge and chisel
Stoneware properties
A black line
Armature
Carving Tools
13. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
warp
Gothic Cathedrals
Women artist of the 19th century
chromatic gray
14. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Pumice
Greenware
'fat over lean'
dry - brushing
15. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Dome
the golden section (architecture)
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Pop artists
16. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Charcoal pen
Tint
Dagyuerrotype
Appropriation Art
17. 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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18. A form of painting in which tiny dots of primary - colors are used to generate secondary colors. It is very similar to Divisionism - except that where Divisionism is concerned with color theory - Pointillism is more focused on the specific style of b
Designed the Barcelona chair
The Renaissance
Pointillism
Palace of Versaille
19. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Grisaille
nave
Rotunda
Photorealism
20. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Pop artists
Cast concrete - modeling
Albert Durer
Wedging
21. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Neoclassical
Forms of Charcoal
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
22. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
value
Wedging
Esquisse
Value
23. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Doric columns
scumbling
Design Elements
Tenebrism
24. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
kinds of stones for stone carving
Social Realism
Chiaroscuro
Brown
25. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
Loom
Mississippian
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Rococo
26. To make a quick sketch
Shutter Speed
Linseed oil
Croquis
Stepped Pyramid Temples
27. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
three point perspective
Rococo
Principle of Art
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
28. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Lotus postition
Pop artists
Scoring
29. Woven wall hangings.
Design Principles
Photogravure
Dry Point
Tapestry
30. 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
Social Realism
slip
Egg Tempera
31. Known for stone. The term was invented by 19th century art historians - especially for Romanesque architecture - which retained many basic features of Roman architectural style - most notably round - headed arches - but also barrel vaults - apses - a
Romanesque
Stoneware
Esquisse
Describe the process of fresco
32. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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33. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Embroidery
African Benin Sculputure
Greenware
value
34. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
analogous Colors
I.M. Pei
Known Rodin prints
Tempera paint
35. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Meyer Schapiro
Brushed used in oil painting
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Kinetic art
36. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Known Rodin prints
Titan's key works
Tapestry
Albert Durer
37. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
gesso
Hagia Sophia
Depression art
Joseph Beuys
38. Continuous frieze
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Column of Trajan
Charcoal pen
Van Der Zee
39. Who said ' less is more'?
Monochrome printing
Dry Point
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
40. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Romanesque
Environmental Art
Joseph Beuys
Egg Tempera
41. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
Depression era Artists
Bas
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Degas and Cassett
42. 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
Stoneware
Meyer Schapiro
Frida Kahlo
Impasto
43. 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
Dagyuerrotype
Baroque painting
Describe the process of fresco
modeling
44. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
Paint Extender
Romanesque Cathedrals
Japanese art and buildings
I.M. Pei
45. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Dagyuerrotype
Sfumato
Armature
Home Insurance Building in NYC
46. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
Tessera
kinds of stones for stone carving
Neoclassical
slip
47. rayons resistant to what?
Water
Bas
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Motif
48. 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
Georgian Style
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Rotunda
49. 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'.
Degas and Cassett
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Printmaking Techniques
Cement
50. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Acrylic paint
Elements of Art
Esquisse
Tapestry
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