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Praxis 2 Art
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1. A painting medium in which pigment is mixed with water - soluble glutinous materials such as size or egg yolk. Also called poster color - poster paint.
Cement
Tapestry
Tempera paint
Environmental Art
2. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Environmental Art
Enameling
Pastel
African Benin Sculputure
3. Made out of Metal
Rodin
Abstract Expressionist Artists
African Benin Sculputure
Rice paper
4. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Armature
Impasto
A black line
Assemblage
5. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Yarn
Emphasis
Hagia Sophia
Parchment
6. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
Scoring
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Mississippian
David Hockney
7. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
nave
Safety glasses
Loom
chromatic gray
8. 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
Van Der Zee
Dagyuerrotype
intermediate colors
9. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Pumice
Japanese art and buildings
warp
Assemblage
10. What is another work for low relief?
Cement
Bas
The Renaissance
Assemblage
11. Most common oil in oil paints
Linseed oil
Rabbit Skin Glue
'fat over lean'
Shade
12. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Meyer Schapiro
Column of Trajan
Brushed used in oil painting
Cast concrete - modeling
13. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
Thomas Gainsborough
aquatint
vehicle
Hardbrick
14. 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.
Aperture
Facing forward and stiff
Film Speed
Crenellation
15. Used in water printing
Adena Indian habitats
Acrylic paint
The Renaissance
Tessera
16. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Stoneware
Linear perspective
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Armature
17. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
Brown
Motif
Crenellation
warp
18. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Social Realism
Linear perspective
Corinthian columns
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
19. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
film speed
dry - brushing
gesso
African masks
20. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
best resolution in a digital photo?
Social Murals
Cement
Mayan
21. ...
Brushed used in oil painting
Bas
Romanesque Cathedrals
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
22. In oil painting - the technique of brushing one layer of paint on top of another in a way that reveals some of the under color.
scumbling
Monochrome printing
Wedging
Rice paper
23. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Shade
Embroidery
African masks
Assemblage
24. 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'.
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Esquisse
Shade
Batik
25. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
The Renaissance
Photorealism
Printmaking Techniques
weft
26. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Appropriation Art
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Safety glasses
27. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
Shutter Speed
Women artist of the 19th century
rhythm
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
28. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
Describe the process of fresco
Armature
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Kinetic art
29. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
binder
Ionic columns
Column of Trajan
Linear perspective
30. The central area of a church
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Film Speed
nave
Impasto
31. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Tenebrism
Forms of Charcoal
Artists associated with Pointillism
Dagyuerrotype
32. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Environmental Art
Chiaroscuro
intermediate colors
Baroque painting
33. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
frisket
intaglio
Facing forward and stiff
Rough paper
34. Robert Smithson
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Stoneware
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Brushed used in oil painting
35. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Encaustic
Barabara Krugel
Degas and Cassett
Embroidery
36. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
Tessera
stain glass in a cathedral
Tenebrism
Value
37. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Dry Point
Degas and Cassett
Women artist of the 19th century
Shade
38. 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
nave
Parchment
Depression era Artists
Rococo
39. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Column of Trajan
Romantic Era
Tapestry
Rice paper
40. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Stoneware
Linseed oil
analogous Colors
vehicle
41. rayons resistant to what?
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Shade
Hagia Sophia
Water
42. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Rough paper
Linear perspective
Photogravure
Rococo
43. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
Artist Proof
Stoneware properties
Degas and Cassett
Mississippian
44. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Design Principles
Yarn
Adena Indian habitats
Baroque painting
45. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
modeling
Romantic Era
Stoneware properties
Principle of Art
46. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Shutter Speed
Depression art
Isocephaly
Used to protect pastel artwork
47. What color do two secondary colors make?
Social Realism
slip
Brown
Tessera
48. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Meyer Schapiro
Rococo
Tint
Pop artists
49. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
CMYK
Meyer Schapiro
intermediate colors
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
50. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Ceramic glaze
intermediate colors
Cast concrete - modeling
Abstract Expressionist Artists
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