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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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1. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
slip
Dagyuerrotype
A black line
Isocephaly
2. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Georgian Style
Pumice
Tapestry
Printmaking Techniques
3. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Esquisse
Design Elements
Tapestry
Titan's key works
4. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Frida Kahlo
Safety glasses
Crenellation
constructed the Spiral Jetty
5. Woven wall hangings.
Wedging
Depression art
A black line
Tapestry
6. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Carving Tools
Isocephaly
Charcoal pen
Rough paper
7. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
David Hockney
rhythm
Romantic Era
Hagia Sophia
8. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Thomas Gainsborough
Social Realism
Palace of Versaille
Principle of Art
9. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Dry Point
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Social Realism
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
10. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Stoneware
Facing forward and stiff
Gouache
constructed the Spiral Jetty
11. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
Tempera paint
Equipment used in oil painting
film speed
Pointillism
12. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
vehicle
Corinthian columns
13. A dominant idea or central theme
Neoclassical
Meyer Schapiro
Water
Motif
14. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Ionic columns
Frottage
Depression art
Gouache
15. Hard - dense firebrick generally used only in high - stress areas of kiln (floor - burner ports - flues - bagwall) and for corrosive firing processes (salt - soda - wood).
Rembrandt
gouache
Japanese art and buildings
Hardbrick
16. ...
Equipment used in oil painting
frisket
Armature
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
17. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
intermediate colors
Dry Point
Paint Extender
Social Murals
18. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Hagia Sophia
Women artist of the 19th century
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
frisket
19. Robert Smithson
Rough paper
Color field painting
Impasto
constructed the Spiral Jetty
20. The central area of a church
Kinetic art
Isocephaly
Shutter Speed
nave
21. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Yarn
Depression era Artists
Islam art
22. Considered one of the greatest printmakers of all time. Working with both woodcuts and copper engravings - he attained a level of detail that is virtually unsurpassed.
Paint Extender
slip
Brushed used in oil painting
Albert Durer
23. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Shutter Speed
Elements of Art
Meyer Schapiro
A black line
24. A school - style - or method of painting - adopted chiefly by 17th - century Spanish and Neapolitan painters - esp Caravaggio - characterized by large areas of dark colours - usually relieved with a shaft of ligh
Barabara Krugel
Film Speed
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Tenebrism
25. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Facing forward and stiff
Tessera
Yarn
aquatint
26. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Photorealism
Meyer Schapiro
Esquisse
Rotunda
27. 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
Artists associated with Pointillism
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
William Blake
28. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Camera Obscura
Stoneware properties
scumbling
Film Speed
29. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
Grisaille
intaglio
The Renaissance
Degas and Cassett
30. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Grisaille
Neoclassical
Charcoal pen
Hagia Sophia
31. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
Jewelry tools
Shutter Speed
best resolution in a digital photo?
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
32. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Georgian Style
Column of Trajan
Safety glasses
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
33. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
Esquisse
Yarn
Water
three point perspective
34. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
Women artist of the 19th century
A black line
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Loom
35. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
wedging the clay
Grisaille
Color field painting
Brushed used in oil painting
36. Neo expressionist artist - Jean - Michel Basquiat was an American painter who rose to fame in the 1980s - and was the first African - American artist to gain international acclaim. His emotionally - charged paintings gave rise to graffiti art and the
Wedging
Basquiat
Principle of Art
Water
37. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
'fat over lean'
Rembrandt
Adena Indian habitats
aquatint
38. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
Emphasis
Japanese art and buildings
Wedging
Adena Indian habitats
39. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Cast concrete - modeling
African masks
Ceramic glaze
Hagia Sophia
40. 3X 5300 pixels
best resolution in a digital photo?
Cement
Emphasis
Romanesque Cathedrals
41. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Ceramic glaze
Depth of Field
Yarn
Safety glasses
42. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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43. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Doric columns
Column of Trajan
Scoring
Social Realism
44. Air - dry unfired clay
Pop artists
Grisaille
Design Principles
Greenware
45. 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.
Emphasis
Loom
Sfumato
Linseed oil
46. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
Rabbit Skin Glue
film speed
Lotus postition
gesso
47. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Color field painting
Esquisse
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Pop artists
48. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Kinetic art
Scoring
Encaustic
Cement
49. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
gesso
frisket
Grisaille
Rembrandt
50. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Linear perspective
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Another term used for buddhist temple
Trompe - l'oil