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Praxis 2 Art
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1. 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
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Impasto
William Blake
2. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
David Hockney
Turpentine
Photogravure
vehicle
3. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
intermediate colors
Emphasis
Palace of Versaille
Pumice
4. To mount a white and black photo - use...
analogous Colors
Rice paper
gesso
Tempera paint
5. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Cast concrete - modeling
Japanese art and buildings
stain glass in a cathedral
Design Elements
6. 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
Basquiat
warp
Japanese art and buildings
Michelangelo
7. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Printmaking Techniques
Linear perspective
Gouache
Artists associated with Pointillism
8. 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
William Blake
Mayan
Gouache
9. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Printmaking Techniques
Ceramic glaze
Artists associated with Pointillism
10. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Monochrome printing
Bas
I.M. Pei
Forms of Charcoal
11. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Color field painting
Meyer Schapiro
Scoring
three point perspective
12. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Known Rodin prints
Degas and Cassett
Environmental Art
Facing forward and stiff
13. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Rembrandt
Fire clay
Stepped Pyramid Temples
three point perspective
14. 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).
Women artist of the 19th century
Cast concrete - modeling
Hardbrick
Social Realism
15. 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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16. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Meyer Schapiro
Grisaille
vehicle
Adena Indian habitats
17. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Isocephaly
warp
Paint Extender
Known Rodin prints
18. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Value
Adena Indian habitats
Chiaroscuro
Used to protect pastel artwork
19. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
I.M. Pei
Trompe - l'oil
Facing forward and stiff
Hagia Sophia
20. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Equipment used in oil painting
Enameling
Dry Point
Hardbrick
21. 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
Photogravure
vehicle
Baroque painting
frisket
22. 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
Monochrome printing
Croquis
nave
23. To make a quick sketch
Scoring
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Croquis
Tempera paint
24. The laying of paint thickly
Gothic Cathedrals
Impasto
gouache
Linear perspective
25. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
Monochrome printing
Design Principles
A black line
Joseph Beuys
26. 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
Color field painting
Wood and bronze
Doric columns
27. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Van Der Zee
Pointillism
Appropriation Art
Forms of Charcoal
28. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
Greenware
Brushed used in oil painting
African Benin Sculputure
gouache
29. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Column of Trajan
Paint Extender
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Thomas Gainsborough
30. 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.
Kinetic art
Film Speed
weft
dry - brushing
31. 3X 5300 pixels
balance
best resolution in a digital photo?
the golden section (architecture)
Gouache
32. A dominant idea or central theme
Palace of Versaille
Doric columns
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Motif
33. Example of baroque architecture
Depression era Artists
Water
Rabbit Skin Glue
Palace of Versaille
34. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Women artist of the 19th century
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Degas and Cassett
modeling
35. AP on an art product means what
Rembrandt
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Artist Proof
African masks
36. Rene Magritte
Esquisse
Elements of Art
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
37. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Pop artists
Depth of Field
Ionic columns
Social Realism
38. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Artist Proof
gesso
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
39. A school - style - or method of painting - adopted chiefly by 17th - century Spanish and Neapolitan painters - esp Caravaggio - characterized by large areas of dark colours - usually relieved with a shaft of ligh
nave
Tapestry
Pop artists
Tenebrism
40. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Color field painting
Tapestry
Photogravure
constructed the Spiral Jetty
41. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
Mayan
Encaustic
stain glass in a cathedral
weft
42. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Hagia Sophia
Rough paper
Rodin
Collage
43. 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
the golden section (architecture)
Islam art
Depression era Artists
constructed the Spiral Jetty
44. 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
Describe the process of fresco
Yarn
Frida Kahlo
Rotunda
45. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Georgian Style
binder
Shade
wedging the clay
46. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Charcoal pen
Used to protect pastel artwork
Yarn
Designed the Barcelona chair
47. What color do two secondary colors make?
Brown
Women artist of the 19th century
Impasto
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
48. What is another work for low relief?
Bas
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Abstract Expressionist Artists
49. 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
Cast concrete - modeling
Tint
chromatic gray
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
50. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Japanese art and buildings
Gel medium
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
megalith