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Praxis 2 Art
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1. 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
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Islam art
Baroque painting
Photogravure
2. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Rodin
Water
binder
Japanese art and buildings
3. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
Depression art
Armature
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
warp
4. AP on an art product means what
Artist Proof
kinds of stones for stone carving
Gouache
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
5. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Shutter Speed
Paint Extender
Turpentine
African masks
6. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Color field painting
Facing forward and stiff
Linseed oil
chromatic gray
7. A dominant idea or central theme
Motif
Mississippian
Bas
wedging the clay
8. 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
Baroque painting
Describe the process of fresco
William Blake
Corinthian columns
9. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Chiaroscuro
CMYK
Georgian Style
Cement
10. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
balance
gouache
Design Principles
David Hockney
11. What goes horizontal across a loom?
William Blake
Elements of Art
Artist Proof
Yarn
12. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Describe the process of fresco
Design Elements
Romanesque Cathedrals
Corinthian columns
13. 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.
Embroidery
Elements of Art
Printmaking Techniques
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
14. 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).
aquatint
Hardbrick
Depth of Field
Pumice
15. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
three point perspective
Motif
Collage
Romantic Era
16. A form of painting in which tiny dots of primary - colors are used to generate secondary colors. It is very similar to Divisionism - except that where Divisionism is concerned with color theory - Pointillism is more focused on the specific style of b
Enameling
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Pointillism
Egg Tempera
17. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
African Benin Sculputure
William Blake
Dry Point
modeling
18. Huge stones
Enameling
Mayan
megalith
Used to protect pastel artwork
19. Fix
Dome
Used to protect pastel artwork
Depression era Artists
A black line
20. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
The post - and - lintel system
Artists associated with Pointillism
intaglio
Brushed used in oil painting
21. 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.
Pumice
Mayan
Albert Durer
aquatint
22. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
Charcoal pen
Basquiat
frisket
Turpentine
23. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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24. Origin is Mayan
Esquisse
Pop artists
Croquis
Stepped Pyramid Temples
25. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
intaglio
Mississippian
Romanesque
Color field painting
26. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Georgian Style
Charcoal pen
Baroque painting
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.
rhythm
Tint
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
28. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
A black line
Hagia Sophia
scumbling
Basic Elements of Sculpture
29. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Forms of Charcoal
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Pumice
Baroque painting
30. What city had the first skyscraper?
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Rough paper
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
31. 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.
Depression era Artists
Photorealism
Aperture
Artists associated with Pointillism
32. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
Pumice
African Benin Sculputure
Van Der Zee
frisket
33. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
nave
kinds of stones for stone carving
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Impasto
34. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Croquis
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Tapestry
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
35. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Julio Gonzalez
Value
Mississippian
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
36. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Greenware
Scoring
Cast concrete - modeling
37. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Basquiat
Grisaille
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Known Rodin prints
38. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Linear perspective
best resolution in a digital photo?
Palace of Versaille
Rembrandt
39. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Artist Proof
Corinthian columns
Pumice
Printmaking Techniques
40. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Gothic Cathedrals
Islam art
Basic Elements of Sculpture
megalith
41. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
analogous Colors
megalith
vehicle
Social Realism
42. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Turpentine
Embroidery
African Benin Sculputure
Mayan
43. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
Georgian Style
Depression era Artists
Batik
Barabara Krugel
44. 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
Emphasis
gesso
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
dry - brushing
45. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Cement
Pointillism
Color field painting
Ceramic glaze
46. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
Printmaking Techniques
Depth of Field
Batik
gesso
47. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
Tint
Women artist of the 19th century
balance
gouache
48. Who made large portraits of friends?
David Hockney
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Corinthian columns
49. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Pop artists
Aperture
Fire clay
Linseed oil
50. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
Neoclassical
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
The Renaissance
William Blake