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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. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Grisaille
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Dagyuerrotype
Stoneware
2. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
Armature
Depression era Artists
Depression art
Tempera paint
3. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
Neoclassical
Wood and bronze
film speed
Titan's key works
4. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Color field painting artists
Principle of Art
Dome
Rough paper
5. Used in water printing
Assemblage
chromatic gray
Albert Durer
Acrylic paint
6. 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
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Printmaking Techniques
the golden section (architecture)
wedging the clay
7. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
Thomas Gainsborough
I.M. Pei
slip
Chiaroscuro
8. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Film Speed
Mississippian
Dry Point
Ceramic - Sgraffito
9. Pagoda
three point perspective
gesso
Principle of Art
Another term used for buddhist temple
10. To make a quick sketch
Dome
Pop artists
A black line
Croquis
11. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Pop artists
Rotunda
Julio Gonzalez
Egg Tempera
12. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
frisket
balance
Principle of Art
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
13. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Appropriation Art
Photogravure
Neoclassical
Wood and bronze
14. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
'fat over lean'
Gel medium
Islam art
Doric columns
15. 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
Scoring
Greenware
wedging the clay
Basquiat
16. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Adena Indian habitats
Mississippian
Thomas Gainsborough
Tint
17. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Kinetic art
Degas and Cassett
Frida Kahlo
Emphasis
18. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Design Principles
Charcoal pen
Environmental Art
Sfumato
19. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Doric columns
Paint Extender
Rembrandt
African masks
20. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
African masks
Gothic Cathedrals
Design Principles
Georgian Style
21. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
Enameling
gesso
stain glass in a cathedral
Design Elements
22. 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
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Islam art
intaglio
Rodin
23. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
Used to protect pastel artwork
Photorealism
The post - and - lintel system
vehicle
24. 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
Shutter Speed
Assemblage
Known Rodin prints
25. Huge stones
African masks
megalith
Camera Obscura
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
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
Loom
Pointillism
Monochrome printing
27. A dominant idea or central theme
aquatint
Motif
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Equipment used in oil painting
28. Made by Gustav Eiffel - Eiffel - marks the centennial celebration of the French Revolution. Liberty - iconic symbol of freedom and of the United States. French gave the US - statue of liberty
Designed the Barcelona chair
Dry Point
Sulfur
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
29. 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
Motif
Joseph Beuys
modeling
30. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Designed the Barcelona chair
Hardbrick
Parchment
Facing forward and stiff
31. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Yarn
binder
Depression art
Islam art
32. Made out of Metal
three point perspective
African masks
Greenware
African Benin Sculputure
33. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Basic Elements of Sculpture
I.M. Pei
Crenellation
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
34. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
Rembrandt
David Hockney
kinds of stones for stone carving
Batik
35. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
The post - and - lintel system
Cast concrete - modeling
Romanesque Cathedrals
gesso
36. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Safety glasses
Japanese art and buildings
Lotus postition
Gothic Cathedrals
37. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Depression art
warp
Depth of Field
Frottage
38. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Artists associated with Pointillism
slip
Meyer Schapiro
Equipment used in oil painting
39. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Romanesque Cathedrals
Mayan
Greenware
aquatint
40. Painter and printmaker of Romantism.Held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity - and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. Works: The Song of Los - The Lovers Whirlwind - Ancient of Days
Egg Tempera
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
William Blake
Gel medium
41. 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
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
A black line
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Rodin
42. Who made large portraits of friends?
Dagyuerrotype
Environmental Art
David Hockney
The post - and - lintel system
43. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
Romanesque Cathedrals
Fire clay
Pastel
Facing forward and stiff
44. 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
Color field painting artists
the golden section (architecture)
Rice paper
Depression era Artists
45. Symmetrical balance
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46. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Value
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Meyer Schapiro
47. 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.
Albert Durer
Fire clay
Gothic Cathedrals
Principle of Art
48. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Collage
Dry Point
Artists associated with Pointillism
49. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Carving Tools
Scoring
Known Rodin prints
Albert Durer
50. 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'.
Color field painting artists
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Cast concrete - modeling
Hagia Sophia