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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. Most common oil in oil paints
aquatint
Cement
Linseed oil
Greenware
2. 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
warp
Frottage
Rodin
Linseed oil
3. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Titan's key works
Kinetic art
The Renaissance
Meyer Schapiro
4. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Brown
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Batik
Design Elements
5. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Principle of Art
Pointillism
Another term used for buddhist temple
Monochrome printing
6. Continuous frieze
Camera Obscura
Esquisse
Sulfur
Column of Trajan
7. 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
slip
William Blake
Palace of Versaille
Gouache
8. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Joseph Beuys
Mayan
Artist Proof
Film Speed
9. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Design Principles
Tempera paint
Grisaille
10. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
Abstract Expressionist Artists
dry - brushing
frisket
Color field painting artists
11. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
Emphasis
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Rembrandt
Rotunda
12. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Pumice
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Trompe - l'oil
Tapestry
13. 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.
CMYK
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Georgian Style
Motif
14. To make a quick sketch
Croquis
Printmaking Techniques
Corinthian columns
Gouache
15. 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
Titan's key works
Rough paper
Photorealism
16. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
Stoneware properties
best resolution in a digital photo?
intermediate colors
The Renaissance
17. 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
chromatic gray
Mississippian
Romanesque
Photogravure
18. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
analogous Colors
Sfumato
Ionic columns
19. 3X 5300 pixels
best resolution in a digital photo?
gouache
Dagyuerrotype
kinds of stones for stone carving
20. 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).
Carving Tools
David Hockney
Hardbrick
Color field painting artists
21. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Crenellation
stain glass in a cathedral
constructed the Spiral Jetty
22. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
best resolution in a digital photo?
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Chiaroscuro
Lotus postition
23. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
Assemblage
The Renaissance
Carving Tools
intermediate colors
24. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Ceramic - Sgraffito
nave
Japanese art and buildings
Rembrandt
25. Known by its massive quality - its thick walls - round arches - sturdy piers - groin vaults - large towers and decorative arcading. Each building has clearly defined forms and they are frequently of very regular - symmetrical plan so that the overall
film speed
Romanesque Cathedrals
Mayan
Artist Proof
26. The laying of paint thickly
Joseph Beuys
Impasto
Ceramic - Sgraffito
aquatint
27. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
Gouache
Depression era Artists
Tenebrism
Pumice
28. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
Georgian Style
modeling
Islam art
Corinthian columns
29. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Assemblage
Embroidery
Hardbrick
kinds of stones for stone carving
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. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
value
Dome
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
32. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
Charcoal pen
Esquisse
gesso
Corinthian columns
33. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Baroque painting
Cement
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Gothic Cathedrals
34. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
intaglio
Corinthian columns
Crenellation
Artists associated with Pointillism
35. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Ceramic glaze
Dry Point
Describe the process of fresco
Photorealism
36. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
Charcoal pen
The post - and - lintel system
Chiaroscuro
Artist Proof
37. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
Stoneware
Corinthian columns
A black line
Titan's key works
38. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Another term used for buddhist temple
Rough paper
Rice paper
Camera Obscura
39. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
gesso
scumbling
Rococo
Rembrandt
40. What color do two secondary colors make?
Brown
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Fire clay
Degas and Cassett
41. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Printmaking Techniques
Neoclassical
Rabbit Skin Glue
Impasto
42. Who said ' less is more'?
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Tessera
Pop artists
Wood and bronze
43. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Design Elements
CMYK
Film Speed
Georgian Style
44. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
Egg Tempera
Tapestry
Tessera
A black line
45. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Tapestry
Used to protect pastel artwork
best resolution in a digital photo?
Environmental Art
46. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Crenellation
Trompe - l'oil
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Elements of Art
47. 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.
slip
dry - brushing
Islam art
gouache
48. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Tapestry
Chiaroscuro
Color field painting
intermediate colors
49. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Wedging
Turpentine
Rococo
Degas and Cassett
50. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
vehicle
Dagyuerrotype
best resolution in a digital photo?