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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. Woven wall hangings.
Embroidery
Hagia Sophia
Joseph Beuys
Tapestry
2. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
Film Speed
Another term used for buddhist temple
three point perspective
Ceramic glaze
3. Made by Gustav Eiffel - Eiffel - marks the centennial celebration of the French Revolution. Liberty - iconic symbol of freedom and of the United States. French gave the US - statue of liberty
Gouache
Depression era Artists
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
megalith
4. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Women artist of the 19th century
Corinthian columns
Dry Point
Cement
5. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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6. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
The post - and - lintel system
Color field painting
gesso
Brown
7. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Wood and bronze
Rabbit Skin Glue
Linear perspective
8. 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
Meyer Schapiro
Parchment
Brushed used in oil painting
the golden section (architecture)
9. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
balance
Emphasis
Describe the process of fresco
Used to protect pastel artwork
10. ...
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Elements of Art
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Hagia Sophia
11. 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.
Neoclassical
nave
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Aperture
12. rayons resistant to what?
Impasto
Artists associated with Pointillism
Water
African masks
13. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Scoring
Tint
Chiaroscuro
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
14. AP on an art product means what
Artist Proof
Assemblage
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Sfumato
15. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
megalith
Grisaille
Design Principles
16. Gouge and chisel
Carving Tools
gesso
aquatint
Home Insurance Building in NYC
17. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
three point perspective
Dome
Social Murals
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
18. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Degas and Cassett
Equipment used in oil painting
modeling
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
19. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
The post - and - lintel system
Pumice
Safety glasses
Emphasis
20. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
Photogravure
Sulfur
Mississippian
Aperture
21. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Value
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Design Elements
Social Realism
22. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
Monochrome printing
megalith
intaglio
nave
23. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Sfumato
Artists associated with Pointillism
Principle of Art
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
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'.
Adena Indian habitats
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Describe the process of fresco
Rembrandt
25. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Sulfur
Rough paper
Tapestry
26. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Artists associated with Pointillism
slip
Rembrandt
Loom
27. To make a quick sketch
Croquis
megalith
Ionic columns
kinds of stones for stone carving
28. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Monochrome printing
Tempera paint
Meyer Schapiro
Ceramic - Sgraffito
29. Rene Magritte
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Hardbrick
nave
stain glass in a cathedral
30. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Encaustic
Michelangelo
value
Tessera
31. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Batik
vehicle
Grisaille
Facing forward and stiff
32. Meaning to rub a crayon or other tool onto paper or other material - which is placed onto a textured surface - in order to create the texture of that surface on the paper.
Hardbrick
Parchment
Egg Tempera
Frottage
33. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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34. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
Stoneware properties
gesso
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Shade
35. 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
wedging the clay
Romanesque
Bas
Principle of Art
36. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
chromatic gray
stain glass in a cathedral
Photogravure
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
37. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston
African Benin Sculputure
Design Elements
Romantic Era
Abstract Expressionist Artists
38. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Degas and Cassett
Egg Tempera
Gothic Cathedrals
scumbling
39. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
African Benin Sculputure
Brushed used in oil painting
Assemblage
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
40. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Color field painting
gouache
Designed the Barcelona chair
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
41. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
Crenellation
Color field painting artists
Turpentine
Ceramic - Sgraffito
42. Pagoda
Known Rodin prints
Elements of Art
Carving Tools
Another term used for buddhist temple
43. Possin was a French painter in the classical style.Themes of tragedy and death are prevalent in Poussin's work.[13] Et in Arcadia ego - a subject he painted twice (second version is seen at right) - exemplifies his cerebral approach. In this composit
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44. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Artist Proof
Dagyuerrotype
45. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Fire clay
Collage
rhythm
Batik
46. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Degas and Cassett
Monochrome printing
Cast concrete - modeling
47. Who said ' less is more'?
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Doric columns
intaglio
Social Murals
48. Robert Smithson
aquatint
Armature
Paint Extender
constructed the Spiral Jetty
49. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
Tessera
analogous Colors
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
African masks
50. 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
Baroque painting
Frida Kahlo
Neoclassical
Gothic Cathedrals