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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. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Tessera
Carving Tools
Social Realism
Yarn
2. 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
Michelangelo
scumbling
Van Der Zee
modeling
3. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
nave
African Benin Sculputure
megalith
Known Rodin prints
4. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
African Benin Sculputure
Barabara Krugel
Brushed used in oil painting
Bas
5. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
Depression era Artists
Rotunda
Mayan
Basic Elements of Sculpture
6. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
Assemblage
stain glass in a cathedral
Film Speed
Parchment
7. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
intaglio
Pop artists
balance
Shutter Speed
8. Gray made by mixing complements
intermediate colors
Rice paper
Rabbit Skin Glue
chromatic gray
9. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light. More sensitive (faster) films have higher ISO numbers and require less exposure in order to make a properly - exposed picture.
analogous Colors
Film Speed
Gothic Cathedrals
Stoneware
10. To mount a white and black photo - use...
I.M. Pei
Rice paper
Elements of Art
Egg Tempera
11. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Printmaking Techniques
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
African Benin Sculputure
Degas and Cassett
12. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Collage
Column of Trajan
Wedging
13. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
Palace of Versaille
Jewelry tools
warp
Sfumato
14. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Wood and bronze
Batik
Neoclassical
modeling
15. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Crenellation
Environmental Art
Principle of Art
Rabbit Skin Glue
16. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Carving Tools
gesso
Tint
Armature
17. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
Appropriation Art
best resolution in a digital photo?
slip
Dry Point
18. Gouge and chisel
vehicle
Tenebrism
A black line
Carving Tools
19. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Pop artists
Meyer Schapiro
dry - brushing
Social Realism
20. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
Printmaking Techniques
gesso
Mississippian
analogous Colors
21. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Yarn
Albert Durer
Gothic Cathedrals
Appropriation Art
22. Who said ' less is more'?
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
warp
Wedging
Emphasis
23. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
chromatic gray
Mayan
binder
Neoclassical
24. 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
Printmaking Techniques
Rotunda
Describe the process of fresco
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
25. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Barabara Krugel
Assemblage
value
Camera Obscura
26. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Rabbit Skin Glue
Brushed used in oil painting
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Romantic Era
27. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Wedging
Tessera
Chiaroscuro
intermediate colors
28. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Corinthian columns
Facing forward and stiff
Describe the process of fresco
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
29. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Georgian Style
Embroidery
Batik
Bas
30. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Known Rodin prints
Design Elements
Designed the Barcelona chair
Wedging
31. 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
Palace of Versaille
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Brown
Emphasis
32. ...
Pastel
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
David Hockney
William Blake
33. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Japanese art and buildings
modeling
Gouache
34. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Croquis
Rough paper
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Printmaking Techniques
35. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Equipment used in oil painting
Tint
Tessera
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
36. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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37. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
aquatint
Environmental Art
the golden section (architecture)
Linseed oil
38. Rene Magritte
Linear perspective
kinds of stones for stone carving
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Social Murals
39. The genre of painting based on using the camera and photographs to gather information and then from this information - creating a painting that appears to be very realistic like a photograph.
Another term used for buddhist temple
Photorealism
Kinetic art
Home Insurance Building in NYC
40. Used in water printing
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Dagyuerrotype
Greenware
Acrylic paint
41. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Paint Extender
Environmental Art
gesso
42. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
Elements of Art
Isocephaly
weft
slip
43. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
Crenellation
African masks
Sfumato
rhythm
44. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Tessera
kinds of stones for stone carving
Dome
Depression art
45. 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
Croquis
Romanesque
Gel medium
value
46. Is a circle - shaped opening in a lens (a hole - really) through which light passes to strike the film. The size of the aperture is expressed as an f - number - like f/8 or f/11.
stain glass in a cathedral
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
CMYK
Aperture
47. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
Stoneware properties
warp
scumbling
The Renaissance
48. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Rococo
Principle of Art
Isocephaly
Acrylic paint
49. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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50. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
Column of Trajan
Jewelry tools
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
intermediate colors