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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 British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Film Speed
Thomas Gainsborough
Equipment used in oil painting
Cement
2. Origin is Mayan
Collage
Brown
Value
Stepped Pyramid Temples
3. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Brown
Lotus postition
Column of Trajan
4. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
Photorealism
Dry Point
Artist Proof
African masks
5. 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.
Palace of Versaille
Armature
Croquis
Embroidery
6. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
Shade
The post - and - lintel system
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Safety glasses
7. 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.
Aperture
Color field painting
Jewelry tools
Brown
8. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
9. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Loom
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
the golden section (architecture)
Batik
10. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
frisket
intermediate colors
Albert Durer
Tempera paint
11. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Linseed oil
Scoring
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Meyer Schapiro
12. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
Rice paper
Embroidery
Women artist of the 19th century
Mississippian
13. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
Brushed used in oil painting
Lotus postition
frisket
Printmaking Techniques
14. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
Design Elements
Ceramic glaze
gesso
Safety glasses
15. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
William Blake
Tint
Pop artists
Julio Gonzalez
16. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
modeling
Dry Point
Stoneware
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
17. 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.
Cast concrete - modeling
Photorealism
Batik
Value
18. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Acrylic paint
Tint
Croquis
Yarn
19. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
nave
Dry Point
Ceramic glaze
Van Der Zee
20. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Pastel
Mayan
Degas and Cassett
21. 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
slip
Emphasis
Basquiat
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
22. What color do two secondary colors make?
Grisaille
Brown
slip
Shade
23. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Describe the process of fresco
Julio Gonzalez
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Film Speed
24. Came in response to Renaissance Art - ominous - otherworldly - and dark in subject. _________ art was heavily influenced by the Counter - reformation and thus more interested in dramatic scenes of saints and history paintings.Art from the Baroque per
Rococo
Esquisse
Baroque painting
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
25. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Home Insurance Building in NYC
slip
Used to protect pastel artwork
26. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
Emphasis
Rembrandt
Rice paper
Corinthian columns
27. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Islam art
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Rough paper
Tint
28. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Camera Obscura
Women artist of the 19th century
Pointillism
Pop artists
29. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
vehicle
Corinthian columns
Shutter Speed
Film Speed
30. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Chiaroscuro
Monochrome printing
Gouache
African Benin Sculputure
31. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Linseed oil
David Hockney
gouache
Linear perspective
32. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
kinds of stones for stone carving
Frida Kahlo
Value
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
33. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Color field painting
Value
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Rabbit Skin Glue
34. Gouge and chisel
Monochrome printing
Carving Tools
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Design Principles
35. Continuous frieze
Aperture
frisket
chromatic gray
Column of Trajan
36. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
best resolution in a digital photo?
CMYK
Brown
Depth of Field
37. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Pop artists
Used to protect pastel artwork
Mayan
Depression art
38. Is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions.
39. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Linear perspective
CMYK
Charcoal pen
Design Principles
40. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Esquisse
Printmaking Techniques
Collage
Monochrome printing
41. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Fire clay
Romanesque
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Rough paper
42. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Stoneware
Islam art
Encaustic
Value
43. Who said ' less is more'?
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Romanesque Cathedrals
Wedging
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
44. Example of baroque architecture
Rodin
Depression art
Palace of Versaille
Corinthian columns
45. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Tint
Emphasis
Scoring
Georgian Style
46. Fix
best resolution in a digital photo?
Used to protect pastel artwork
gesso
Yarn
47. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
dry - brushing
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Dry Point
Elements of Art
48. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Sfumato
Van Der Zee
Rabbit Skin Glue
Basic Elements of Sculpture
49. 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
stain glass in a cathedral
Describe the process of fresco
Pointillism
Armature
50. 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
Motif
wedging the clay
Column of Trajan
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common