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Praxis 2 Art
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1. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
Palace of Versaille
frisket
gouache
African Benin Sculputure
2. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
Water
Neoclassical
African Benin Sculputure
Tessera
3. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Crenellation
Cast concrete - modeling
Design Elements
Impasto
4. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
rhythm
African Benin Sculputure
scumbling
Dry Point
5. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
Tapestry
Dry Point
Describe the process of fresco
gesso
6. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Cement
Tessera
Mayan
Depression era Artists
7. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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8. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
intermediate colors
Design Elements
Fire clay
Gothic Cathedrals
9. Pagoda
Carving Tools
scumbling
Another term used for buddhist temple
Shutter Speed
10. An art and design principle concerned with the arrangement of one or more elements in a work of art so that they appear symmetrical (even) or asymmetrical (uneven) in design and proportion.
Rough paper
Rabbit Skin Glue
balance
Tapestry
11. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Grisaille
Dry Point
Monochrome printing
Collage
12. 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
weft
Rotunda
the golden section (architecture)
Pumice
13. A dominant idea or central theme
Appropriation Art
Motif
Lotus postition
Sfumato
14. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Albert Durer
Tessera
Julio Gonzalez
Ionic columns
15. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Romanesque
Van Der Zee
Dry Point
Stepped Pyramid Temples
16. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Tempera paint
Pumice
Tint
A black line
17. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
frisket
Thomas Gainsborough
Appropriation Art
Islam art
18. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Adena Indian habitats
Shade
Esquisse
Equipment used in oil painting
19. Gouge and chisel
Carving Tools
chromatic gray
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Barabara Krugel
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).
Hardbrick
Rococo
Wood and bronze
Pumice
21. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Color field painting
Dagyuerrotype
Brushed used in oil painting
Social Realism
22. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Emphasis
Aperture
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Rough paper
23. 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.
Egg Tempera
Turpentine
Sfumato
Doric columns
24. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Describe the process of fresco
Color field painting
Julio Gonzalez
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
25. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Georgian Style
Equipment used in oil painting
Emphasis
26. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Value
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Doric columns
Social Realism
27. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Color field painting artists
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Yarn
Basic Elements of Sculpture
28. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Gel medium
Known Rodin prints
Cement
CMYK
29. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Principle of Art
Rodin
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Romanesque
30. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
The Renaissance
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Wood and bronze
Croquis
31. Neo expressionist artist - Jean - Michel Basquiat was an American painter who rose to fame in the 1980s - and was the first African - American artist to gain international acclaim. His emotionally - charged paintings gave rise to graffiti art and the
Basquiat
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Principle of Art
A black line
32. 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.
African Benin Sculputure
Charcoal pen
Embroidery
Rabbit Skin Glue
33. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
slip
Color field painting
Shutter Speed
34. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Motif
Pumice
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Photogravure
35. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
intaglio
Egg Tempera
Collage
balance
36. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Rembrandt
Social Realism
Romantic Era
37. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Linear perspective
Frida Kahlo
Scoring
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
38. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
Social Realism
Film Speed
aquatint
Mayan
39. AP on an art product means what
Gouache
Georgian Style
Impasto
Artist Proof
40. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
chromatic gray
Romantic Era
Describe the process of fresco
dry - brushing
41. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Frottage
warp
value
Aperture
42. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Emphasis
Another term used for buddhist temple
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
43. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
Wedging
intermediate colors
Wood and bronze
modeling
44. 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.
Tempera paint
Titan's key works
Sulfur
Gouache
45. A school - style - or method of painting - adopted chiefly by 17th - century Spanish and Neapolitan painters - esp Caravaggio - characterized by large areas of dark colours - usually relieved with a shaft of ligh
Appropriation Art
Corinthian columns
Environmental Art
Tenebrism
46. Huge stones
Yarn
Describe the process of fresco
Baroque painting
megalith
47. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston
Monochrome printing
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Meyer Schapiro
best resolution in a digital photo?
48. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Tenebrism
Batik
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Rice paper
49. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
megalith
Value
Dry Point
Color field painting artists
50. 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
Sfumato
Rococo
Parchment
Esquisse