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Praxis 2 Art
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1. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Hardbrick
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Depth of Field
Facing forward and stiff
2. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Depression art
Color field painting
Brushed used in oil painting
Armature
3. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Japanese art and buildings
Color field painting
Appropriation Art
Islam art
4. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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5. 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
Linear perspective
balance
Grisaille
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
6. What city had the first skyscraper?
Lotus postition
Romanesque Cathedrals
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Collage
7. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
Depression era Artists
Tint
Encaustic
Degas and Cassett
8. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Rice paper
Environmental Art
Parchment
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
9. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Ceramic glaze
Another term used for buddhist temple
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Sulfur
10. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Pumice
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Fire clay
Depth of Field
11. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
Depth of Field
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Rice paper
Mississippian
12. Robert Smithson
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Batik
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Corinthian columns
13. To mount a white and black photo - use...
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
gesso
Environmental Art
Rice paper
14. A dominant idea or central theme
Egg Tempera
Motif
rhythm
Batik
15. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Armature
Ionic columns
balance
Pointillism
16. 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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17. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
Grisaille
Neoclassical
three point perspective
African Benin Sculputure
18. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Neoclassical
Stoneware
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Georgian Style
19. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Basquiat
Facing forward and stiff
Barabara Krugel
20. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Tessera
Trompe - l'oil
megalith
intermediate colors
21. Made out of Metal
Barabara Krugel
African Benin Sculputure
Armature
Artists associated with Pointillism
22. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Safety glasses
Photogravure
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
23. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Hardbrick
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Photogravure
Gothic Cathedrals
24. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Depression art
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Equipment used in oil painting
Michelangelo
25. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Cement
warp
Pumice
Meyer Schapiro
26. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Collage
weft
Yarn
Doric columns
27. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
Loom
best resolution in a digital photo?
frisket
CMYK
28. Rocks - pebbles etc - 'a hole can it self have as much shape meaning as a solid mass. The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation. The hole connects one side to the other - making it immediately more three - dimensional. A hole can i
Chiaroscuro
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
gesso
29. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Hagia Sophia
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Rabbit Skin Glue
Brushed used in oil painting
30. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
wedging the clay
Jewelry tools
Principle of Art
Facing forward and stiff
31. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Pointillism
Doric columns
Pastel
Crenellation
32. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
Appropriation Art
Design Principles
Artist Proof
Turpentine
33. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
chromatic gray
Dome
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Batik
34. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
Embroidery
Egg Tempera
rhythm
Tint
35. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
frisket
Depression art
Printmaking Techniques
gouache
36. 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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37. ...
Barabara Krugel
best resolution in a digital photo?
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
gesso
38. Statuettes were mostly used for two purposes: to incarnate a spirit of the bush - and the second was to represent a spouse from the other world 'Blolo Bla' or 'Blolo Bian'.
Crenellation
Collage
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
39. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Encaustic
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Titan's key works
Monochrome printing
40. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Women artist of the 19th century
Wedging
Pointillism
Tapestry
41. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
Corinthian columns
Isocephaly
Barabara Krugel
Assemblage
42. Cyan - Magenta - Yellow - Key (blacK). This ystem is used for printing. For mixing of pigments - it is better to use the secondary colours - since they mix subtractively instead of additively.
Rabbit Skin Glue
Facing forward and stiff
CMYK
Design Elements
43. What is another work for low relief?
Photorealism
Bas
Dagyuerrotype
Another term used for buddhist temple
44. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Albert Durer
Dry Point
Design Elements
Depression era Artists
45. 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.
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Photogravure
Palace of Versaille
Albert Durer
46. Sculptor. Major Work: The Thinker - a naturalist - less concerned with monumental expression than with character and emotion. Departing with centuries of tradition - he turned away from the idealism of the Greeks - and the decorative beauty of the Ba
Egg Tempera
Embroidery
Rodin
Used to protect pastel artwork
47. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Mayan
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Loom
Shutter Speed
48. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
gesso
Value
Environmental Art
vehicle
49. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
the golden section (architecture)
analogous Colors
nave
Stoneware properties
50. Huge stones
Meyer Schapiro
megalith
gesso
Parchment
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