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Praxis 2 Art
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The genre of painting based on using the camera and photographs to gather information and then from this information - creating a painting that appears to be very realistic like a photograph.
Trompe - l'oil
Photorealism
Stoneware properties
frisket
2. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Ionic columns
Pumice
Printmaking Techniques
3. 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
Julio Gonzalez
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Tenebrism
warp
4. What city had the first skyscraper?
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Carving Tools
Tempera paint
Women artist of the 19th century
5. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
analogous Colors
megalith
Ceramic - Sgraffito
CMYK
6. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Rembrandt
Islam art
Tapestry
Design Principles
7. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Pop artists
Georgian Style
rhythm
A black line
8. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
modeling
Artists associated with Pointillism
Fire clay
Lotus postition
9. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
The Renaissance
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Used to protect pastel artwork
megalith
10. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
Another term used for buddhist temple
Hardbrick
Ionic columns
intaglio
11. 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
Hardbrick
Degas and Cassett
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Islam art
12. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Crenellation
13. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Rabbit Skin Glue
Trompe - l'oil
Rotunda
Photogravure
14. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
Doric columns
Photogravure
Barabara Krugel
slip
15. 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.
Water
Albert Durer
The Renaissance
Basquiat
16. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
modeling
Barabara Krugel
Rotunda
film speed
17. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Corinthian columns
Armature
Mayan
Frottage
18. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
The Renaissance
Ionic columns
Impasto
intaglio
19. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
chromatic gray
Dome
Sfumato
Value
20. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Cast concrete - modeling
gouache
Appropriation Art
Cement
21. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
warp
Sfumato
Rice paper
kinds of stones for stone carving
22. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
gouache
Mississippian
Design Principles
Dagyuerrotype
23. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Elements of Art
Linseed oil
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Julio Gonzalez
24. rayons resistant to what?
Water
modeling
Paint Extender
Assemblage
25. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
Grisaille
African masks
weft
Social Murals
26. Origin is Mayan
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Adena Indian habitats
African masks
Islam art
27. 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.
Pointillism
Frottage
Emphasis
The post - and - lintel system
28. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Linseed oil
Wedging
Dagyuerrotype
Tessera
29. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Photogravure
Paint Extender
Titan's key works
the golden section (architecture)
30. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
I.M. Pei
Social Realism
Ceramic - Sgraffito
intermediate colors
31. 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.
The Renaissance
Depth of Field
CMYK
Stoneware
32. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Frida Kahlo
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
weft
Brushed used in oil painting
33. Used her life experiences into her artwork - including her marriage - her miscarriages - and her numerous operations - works often are characterized by their stark portrayals of pain - combined elements of the classic religious Mexican tradition with
Value
Brown
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Frida Kahlo
34. Rene Magritte
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Egg Tempera
I.M. Pei
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
35. Huge stones
megalith
Appropriation Art
Encaustic
Rembrandt
36. 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
Tempera paint
Islam art
Ionic columns
Baroque painting
37. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Printmaking Techniques
modeling
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Parchment
38. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Romanesque Cathedrals
Appropriation Art
Principle of Art
Rodin
39. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Wood and bronze
Social Murals
analogous Colors
Bas
40. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Charcoal pen
Gouache
Meyer Schapiro
Linear perspective
41. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Ionic columns
Pop artists
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Hagia Sophia
42. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Georgian Style
Cement
intermediate colors
43. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Cement
Albert Durer
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Linear perspective
44. 3X 5300 pixels
Gouache
Design Principles
best resolution in a digital photo?
Joseph Beuys
45. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
binder
Crenellation
Gothic Cathedrals
Pop artists
46. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
CMYK
Principle of Art
Doric columns
Facing forward and stiff
47. Used in water printing
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Acrylic paint
The Renaissance
The post - and - lintel system
48. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
Crenellation
Another term used for buddhist temple
Neoclassical
Color field painting
49. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
aquatint
Bas
chromatic gray
modeling
50. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Romanesque Cathedrals
Ceramic glaze
analogous Colors