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Praxis 2 Art
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1. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
A black line
Acrylic paint
Tapestry
Linear perspective
2. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
intaglio
Value
3. Considered one of the greatest printmakers of all time. Working with both woodcuts and copper engravings - he attained a level of detail that is virtually unsurpassed.
Scoring
weft
Albert Durer
Turpentine
4. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Color field painting artists
Ceramic glaze
megalith
Design Elements
5. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Monochrome printing
Chiaroscuro
intermediate colors
Stoneware
6. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Depression art
Turpentine
modeling
Yarn
7. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
Greenware
warp
Column of Trajan
Principle of Art
8. Italian term meaning smoke - describing a very delicate gradation of light and shade in the modeling of figures; often ascribed to Da Vinci's work.
gouache
Sfumato
Rodin
Column of Trajan
9. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Wedging
gesso
Chiaroscuro
Tint
10. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Rough paper
megalith
Design Elements
Van Der Zee
11. Came in response to the darkness and heaviness of Baroque art - but did continue many of the ideals specified during the 17th century. Rococo related much more to decorative shapes as well as the natural and organic. Swirling shapes and asymmetrical
Barabara Krugel
Japanese art and buildings
Pumice
Rococo
12. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
weft
Embroidery
Adena Indian habitats
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
13. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Artists associated with Pointillism
Photorealism
Design Principles
Aperture
14. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Yarn
Linseed oil
Tapestry
Camera Obscura
15. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Monochrome printing
Cast concrete - modeling
Barabara Krugel
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
16. Fix
vehicle
Elements of Art
Used to protect pastel artwork
Pastel
17. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Ceramic glaze
Kinetic art
Georgian Style
18. Who said ' less is more'?
value
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Hardbrick
Social Murals
19. Gray made by mixing complements
Lotus postition
Michelangelo
chromatic gray
Design Principles
20. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Gel medium
Column of Trajan
Design Principles
Known Rodin prints
21. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
Jewelry tools
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Trompe - l'oil
Michelangelo
22. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
film speed
Design Principles
The Renaissance
23. Pagoda
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Embroidery
Another term used for buddhist temple
24. 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)
Japanese art and buildings
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
intaglio
25. 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.
intermediate colors
Water
Aperture
Designed the Barcelona chair
26. Who made large portraits of friends?
David Hockney
Tessera
Baroque painting
Rococo
27. 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
Egg Tempera
Brushed used in oil painting
Acrylic paint
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
28. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
Mississippian
Dome
weft
three point perspective
29. A painting technique in which - as the name suggests - a little bit of paint is put on a dry brush. When applied - it produces a broken - scratchy effect.
dry - brushing
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Kinetic art
William Blake
30. 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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31. 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.
Dome
Embroidery
Basquiat
Aperture
32. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
kinds of stones for stone carving
three point perspective
Neoclassical
Basic Elements of Sculpture
33. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Depth of Field
Rembrandt
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
analogous Colors
34. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Carving Tools
Grisaille
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Wood and bronze
35. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Gouache
megalith
Ionic columns
analogous Colors
36. ...
Greenware
Equipment used in oil painting
Romanesque Cathedrals
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
37. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
Emphasis
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
CMYK
Lotus postition
38. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
slip
the golden section (architecture)
Wood and bronze
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
39. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Barabara Krugel
Women artist of the 19th century
Elements of Art
Thomas Gainsborough
40. The laying of paint thickly
Color field painting artists
Impasto
Mississippian
Pastel
41. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
Rotunda
binder
Croquis
Neoclassical
42. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
gouache
stain glass in a cathedral
Stoneware
Linear perspective
43. 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
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Rice paper
CMYK
44. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Cement
Social Murals
Tint
Photogravure
45. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
Stoneware properties
Tempera paint
Photogravure
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
46. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
David Hockney
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Romanesque Cathedrals
47. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Crenellation
A black line
African Benin Sculputure
Forms of Charcoal
48. 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.
Tessera
Armature
Film Speed
Equipment used in oil painting
49. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
Equipment used in oil painting
Depression art
Loom
Color field painting artists
50. rayons resistant to what?
Mayan
Water
best resolution in a digital photo?
Women artist of the 19th century