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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. What color do two secondary colors make?
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Brown
Facing forward and stiff
Assemblage
2. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Loom
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Isocephaly
3. 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
Impasto
Loom
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
the golden section (architecture)
4. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Brown
Safety glasses
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Pop artists
5. 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
Pumice
African masks
Mississippian
Baroque painting
6. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Rotunda
Gel medium
Designed the Barcelona chair
Sulfur
7. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
Frida Kahlo
Titan's key works
Corinthian columns
Enameling
8. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
Tapestry
Emphasis
value
Doric columns
9. The central area of a church
Croquis
nave
Shutter Speed
Tessera
10. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Design Elements
warp
11. 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.
Doric columns
Forms of Charcoal
dry - brushing
value
12. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
Charcoal pen
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Tessera
Mississippian
13. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Grisaille
Armature
Crenellation
David Hockney
14. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Women artist of the 19th century
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Brushed used in oil painting
Yarn
15. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Depth of Field
balance
Design Principles
Rough paper
16. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Hardbrick
Baroque painting
Emphasis
Assemblage
17. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Isocephaly
Fire clay
18. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
three point perspective
modeling
Photogravure
vehicle
19. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
Camera Obscura
Kinetic art
Titan's key works
Used to protect pastel artwork
20. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
frisket
Adena Indian habitats
I.M. Pei
Forms of Charcoal
21. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Tapestry
Hagia Sophia
Barabara Krugel
Linseed oil
22. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
Georgian Style
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
aquatint
William Blake
23. Who made large portraits of friends?
Greenware
wedging the clay
Impasto
David Hockney
24. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
A black line
Film Speed
Hardbrick
Sfumato
25. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Stoneware
Artists associated with Pointillism
frisket
Isocephaly
26. 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
Cement
William Blake
Wedging
Frida Kahlo
27. Rene Magritte
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Appropriation Art
Rembrandt
28. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Joseph Beuys
Dry Point
Depth of Field
African masks
29. Example of baroque architecture
Palace of Versaille
Joseph Beuys
David Hockney
Van Der Zee
30. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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31. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Romanesque
Wedging
Degas and Cassett
32. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
wedging the clay
balance
analogous Colors
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
33. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Environmental Art
analogous Colors
Gothic Cathedrals
Color field painting
34. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
intermediate colors
Appropriation Art
frisket
Romanesque Cathedrals
35. 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.
Scoring
Wood and bronze
Frottage
three point perspective
36. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Depression era Artists
Palace of Versaille
weft
Parchment
37. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Emphasis
Meyer Schapiro
Thomas Gainsborough
Dome
38. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
Used to protect pastel artwork
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Carving Tools
Tapestry
39. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
value
Pumice
Tenebrism
Gouache
40. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Design Principles
Hagia Sophia
Dome
Egg Tempera
41. 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.
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Hardbrick
Film Speed
42. Used in water printing
African masks
Linear perspective
Acrylic paint
Pop artists
43. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Value
Egg Tempera
Artists associated with Pointillism
analogous Colors
44. 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
Michelangelo
Linear perspective
Film Speed
45. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Wood and bronze
Shade
Cast concrete - modeling
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
46. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Doric columns
Artist Proof
Pointillism
Dagyuerrotype
47. 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
Romanesque Cathedrals
Ionic columns
Photorealism
48. Origin is Mayan
Social Realism
kinds of stones for stone carving
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Barabara Krugel
49. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Doric columns
Adena Indian habitats
stain glass in a cathedral
Wood and bronze
50. What is another work for low relief?
Bas
best resolution in a digital photo?
Thomas Gainsborough
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue