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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. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
Shade
aquatint
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Baroque painting
2. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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3. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Yarn
Grisaille
Lotus postition
Another term used for buddhist temple
4. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Degas and Cassett
Social Realism
Armature
Titan's key works
5. 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.
stain glass in a cathedral
Designed the Barcelona chair
Charcoal pen
Aperture
6. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
intaglio
Women artist of the 19th century
CMYK
I.M. Pei
7. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Design Elements
Linear perspective
Principle of Art
rhythm
8. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
weft
'fat over lean'
Cast concrete - modeling
Van Der Zee
9. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
Motif
rhythm
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Gel medium
10. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
chromatic gray
Color field painting artists
William Blake
Value
11. Woven wall hangings.
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
gesso
Dagyuerrotype
Tapestry
12. Harlem Renaissance artist known for etchings - was a German painter - printmaker - and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition in the first half of the 20th century. Her empathy for the less fortunate
slip
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Neoclassical
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
13. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Ionic columns
Facing forward and stiff
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Romantic Era
14. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
best resolution in a digital photo?
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Romanesque
Linseed oil
15. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
Sfumato
Baroque painting
intaglio
Cement
16. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
Value
wedging the clay
Hardbrick
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
17. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
Yarn
Romanesque Cathedrals
gesso
Loom
18. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Frida Kahlo
Social Realism
intermediate colors
Gel medium
19. 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.
Film Speed
Depression art
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
frisket
20. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Paint Extender
the golden section (architecture)
Baroque painting
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
21. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Column of Trajan
megalith
The Renaissance
Fire clay
22. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Tapestry
African masks
Rabbit Skin Glue
23. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
Linseed oil
Design Elements
Lotus postition
Yarn
24. A dominant idea or central theme
Column of Trajan
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Depression art
Motif
25. What city had the first skyscraper?
Value
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Basquiat
binder
26. 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'.
gesso
wedging the clay
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
warp
27. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Gouache
Dome
Principle of Art
kinds of stones for stone carving
28. 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
Linear perspective
kinds of stones for stone carving
Romanesque
Loom
29. Fix
Safety glasses
Used to protect pastel artwork
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Sulfur
30. To make a quick sketch
Encaustic
Croquis
Gouache
Gel medium
31. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Value
Depression art
David Hockney
Impasto
32. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
The post - and - lintel system
Tessera
Batik
Assemblage
33. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
Linseed oil
Shutter Speed
three point perspective
Charcoal pen
34. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Tessera
Turpentine
'fat over lean'
Shade
35. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
modeling
balance
film speed
Photogravure
36. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Rembrandt
Scoring
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Assemblage
37. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Design Principles
Depression era Artists
Stoneware properties
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
38. Focused on the depiction of patterns and Arabic calligraphy - rather than on figures - because it is feared by many Muslims that the depiction of the human form is idolatry and thereby a sin against God - forbidden in the Qur'an.
Design Elements
Islam art
Thomas Gainsborough
Value
39. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Wood and bronze
The Renaissance
nave
Designed the Barcelona chair
40. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
Tint
analogous Colors
the golden section (architecture)
Dry Point
41. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
analogous Colors
Forms of Charcoal
Describe the process of fresco
Artist Proof
42. 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
Dry Point
Gouache
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
'fat over lean'
43. 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.
Sfumato
Baroque painting
Tessera
Abstract Expressionist Artists
44. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Encaustic
Cast concrete - modeling
Doric columns
three point perspective
45. His versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man
Appropriation Art
Michelangelo
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Stoneware
46. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Van Der Zee
Gothic Cathedrals
Another term used for buddhist temple
Forms of Charcoal
47. The central area of a church
best resolution in a digital photo?
nave
Rodin
Joseph Beuys
48. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
African Benin Sculputure
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Van Der Zee
Equipment used in oil painting
49. Most common oil in oil paints
Isocephaly
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Sulfur
Linseed oil
50. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Esquisse
'fat over lean'
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Brown