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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 mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Hagia Sophia
Cement
nave
the golden section (architecture)
2. Continuous frieze
Pointillism
Column of Trajan
Emphasis
Color field painting
3. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Fire clay
Shutter Speed
The post - and - lintel system
Palace of Versaille
4. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Cement
Croquis
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
rhythm
5. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
film speed
Cement
dry - brushing
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
6. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Joseph Beuys
Acrylic paint
Depression art
7. The central area of a church
African masks
Linseed oil
Loom
nave
8. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
Rodin
Water
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
A black line
9. 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.
Embroidery
Doric columns
Tenebrism
Basic Elements of Sculpture
10. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Design Elements
kinds of stones for stone carving
Baroque painting
Isocephaly
11. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Design Principles
gouache
Yarn
12. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
frisket
Facing forward and stiff
Gel medium
scumbling
13. Robert Smithson
Water
Equipment used in oil painting
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Corinthian columns
14. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
Doric columns
aquatint
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Embroidery
15. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Yarn
Women artist of the 19th century
Gouache
16. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
value
Elements of Art
Tessera
Forms of Charcoal
17. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Chiaroscuro
Enameling
scumbling
Wood and bronze
18. Gray made by mixing complements
Acrylic paint
Adena Indian habitats
Pointillism
chromatic gray
19. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
Brown
I.M. Pei
Gouache
Batik
20. Rocks - pebbles etc - 'a hole can it self have as much shape meaning as a solid mass. The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation. The hole connects one side to the other - making it immediately more three - dimensional. A hole can i
Turpentine
Cement
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
21. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Design Principles
Frottage
Motif
warp
22. In oil painting - the technique of brushing one layer of paint on top of another in a way that reveals some of the under color.
Brushed used in oil painting
Color field painting
Safety glasses
scumbling
23. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Joseph Beuys
Degas and Cassett
modeling
24. 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
Pointillism
analogous Colors
Romantic Era
Parchment
25. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
binder
Impasto
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Gothic Cathedrals
26. Huge stones
Wedging
analogous Colors
Encaustic
megalith
27. What color do two secondary colors make?
Wood and bronze
Brown
Water
Stoneware
28. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
Ceramic glaze
Gel medium
Design Principles
Mississippian
29. Origin is Mayan
The post - and - lintel system
Tapestry
Stepped Pyramid Temples
megalith
30. Fix
Column of Trajan
Romanesque
Artist Proof
Used to protect pastel artwork
31. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?
Sulfur
Equipment used in oil painting
CMYK
warp
32. 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
William Blake
Isocephaly
African Benin Sculputure
stain glass in a cathedral
33. 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).
Charcoal pen
Artists associated with Pointillism
Hardbrick
Jewelry tools
34. Most common oil in oil paints
Value
Rococo
Adena Indian habitats
Linseed oil
35. AP on an art product means what
Artist Proof
Egg Tempera
Tessera
binder
36. Rene Magritte
Gouache
wedging the clay
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Charcoal pen
37. His versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man
Tempera paint
Social Realism
Rembrandt
Michelangelo
38. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Thomas Gainsborough
Michelangelo
Ionic columns
Baroque painting
39. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
A black line
Rotunda
Armature
Cast concrete - modeling
40. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Ionic columns
Islam art
Pumice
the golden section (architecture)
41. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Designed the Barcelona chair
binder
Abstract Expressionist Artists
42. Is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions.
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43. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Photogravure
Pastel
Sfumato
Grisaille
44. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Bas
Barabara Krugel
David Hockney
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
45. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
Michelangelo
wedging the clay
the golden section (architecture)
Rice paper
46. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Corinthian columns
Facing forward and stiff
Encaustic
47. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Facing forward and stiff
Cast concrete - modeling
value
Armature
48. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
three point perspective
stain glass in a cathedral
Hagia Sophia
African Benin Sculputure
49. 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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50. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Charcoal pen
Monochrome printing
Pop artists
Principle of Art