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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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1. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Linear perspective
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Value
Thomas Gainsborough
2. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Film Speed
Encaustic
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Parchment
3. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Romantic Era
Design Elements
film speed
Rococo
4. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
Safety glasses
film speed
Tapestry
Rice paper
5. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Tempera paint
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Van Der Zee
Monochrome printing
6. Meaning to rub a crayon or other tool onto paper or other material - which is placed onto a textured surface - in order to create the texture of that surface on the paper.
Frottage
Thomas Gainsborough
African masks
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
7. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Tessera
Degas and Cassett
Safety glasses
Brushed used in oil painting
8. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
three point perspective
scumbling
wedging the clay
Ionic columns
9. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
Palace of Versaille
William Blake
Depression era Artists
Design Principles
10. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
best resolution in a digital photo?
Enameling
Grisaille
Crenellation
11. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
Jewelry tools
Printmaking Techniques
binder
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
12. 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.
balance
Stepped Pyramid Temples
scumbling
A black line
13. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Assemblage
Rice paper
film speed
14. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Armature
Used to protect pastel artwork
Adena Indian habitats
Collage
15. The laying of paint thickly
Impasto
Social Murals
CMYK
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
16. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
three point perspective
Basquiat
Brushed used in oil painting
Grisaille
17. rayons resistant to what?
Monochrome printing
Water
Appropriation Art
Scoring
18. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
Baroque painting
Pastel
Hardbrick
Gel medium
19. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
stain glass in a cathedral
Elements of Art
Romantic Era
20. 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
balance
Frida Kahlo
Adena Indian habitats
Degas and Cassett
21. A dominant idea or central theme
Artists associated with Pointillism
Meyer Schapiro
value
Motif
22. 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).
Yarn
Stoneware
Hardbrick
Another term used for buddhist temple
23. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Doric columns
Charcoal pen
Yarn
Hardbrick
24. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Artists associated with Pointillism
CMYK
Gothic Cathedrals
Sfumato
25. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Adena Indian habitats
Film Speed
Linear perspective
Batik
26. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Tapestry
Batik
Armature
rhythm
27. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Romantic Era
Ceramic glaze
Dagyuerrotype
Another term used for buddhist temple
28. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
Esquisse
weft
Michelangelo
Jewelry tools
29. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
analogous Colors
Safety glasses
Pumice
Camera Obscura
30. Who said ' less is more'?
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Doric columns
Tapestry
Gothic Cathedrals
31. What is another work for low relief?
Pointillism
Bas
aquatint
Egg Tempera
32. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Depression art
analogous Colors
Hagia Sophia
Design Principles
33. ...
Aperture
Describe the process of fresco
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Adena Indian habitats
34. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
wedging the clay
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Pop artists
Shutter Speed
35. 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
frisket
Water
Another term used for buddhist temple
36. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
slip
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Japanese art and buildings
Gothic Cathedrals
37. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
Romanesque Cathedrals
Appropriation Art
Turpentine
three point perspective
38. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
Emphasis
Hardbrick
Meyer Schapiro
The Renaissance
39. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
Albert Durer
Mississippian
A black line
Depression art
40. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Depression era Artists
Julio Gonzalez
Wood and bronze
Brushed used in oil painting
41. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Rabbit Skin Glue
'fat over lean'
weft
42. What color do two secondary colors make?
I.M. Pei
Sulfur
Rembrandt
Brown
43. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
A black line
Corinthian columns
Camera Obscura
Romantic Era
44. To make a quick sketch
Esquisse
Croquis
Elements of Art
Motif
45. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Greenware
William Blake
Assemblage
Linseed oil
46. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Chiaroscuro
Romanesque Cathedrals
Rabbit Skin Glue
rhythm
47. Robert Smithson
the golden section (architecture)
aquatint
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Romanesque Cathedrals
48. 3X 5300 pixels
best resolution in a digital photo?
Frottage
Basquiat
Van Der Zee
49. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Rodin
Enameling
Emphasis
Japanese art and buildings
50. 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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