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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. Woven wall hangings.
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Embroidery
Tapestry
2. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Sfumato
Tapestry
vehicle
Gel medium
3. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
Cement
Depression era Artists
Croquis
Abstract Expressionist Artists
4. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Sfumato
Trompe - l'oil
Batik
5. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
Encaustic
Jewelry tools
Photorealism
Monochrome printing
6. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Designed the Barcelona chair
African masks
intermediate colors
7. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Designed the Barcelona chair
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Parchment
Film Speed
8. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Photorealism
Linear perspective
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Principle of Art
9. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Frottage
Social Murals
Encaustic
Rembrandt
10. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Environmental Art
Photogravure
balance
film speed
11. What color do two secondary colors make?
William Blake
Hardbrick
Brown
Impasto
12. What is another work for low relief?
megalith
Fire clay
Bas
Printmaking Techniques
13. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Stoneware
Dome
Shutter Speed
14. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
Adena Indian habitats
Palace of Versaille
The Renaissance
Another term used for buddhist temple
15. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
gesso
Color field painting
Chiaroscuro
Environmental Art
16. 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.
dry - brushing
Equipment used in oil painting
Paint Extender
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
17. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
African masks
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Color field painting
18. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Ceramic glaze
Stoneware
Social Realism
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
19. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Parchment
Wedging
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
20. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
rhythm
Corinthian columns
Joseph Beuys
slip
21. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
William Blake
Forms of Charcoal
Ceramic glaze
Dagyuerrotype
22. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Ionic columns
Doric columns
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Collage
23. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Social Murals
Wood and bronze
Film Speed
intaglio
24. 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
vehicle
Armature
Baroque painting
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
25. 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).
Enameling
Hardbrick
Mississippian
I.M. Pei
26. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Collage
Artist Proof
Van Der Zee
Isocephaly
27. Air - dry unfired clay
Greenware
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Film Speed
Encaustic
28. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Rotunda
Pastel
African Benin Sculputure
value
29. rayons resistant to what?
Water
Depression era Artists
Batik
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
30. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Egg Tempera
Japanese art and buildings
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Neoclassical
31. 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
Doric columns
frisket
the golden section (architecture)
Rabbit Skin Glue
32. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
stain glass in a cathedral
Adena Indian habitats
Thomas Gainsborough
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
33. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Social Murals
Acrylic paint
three point perspective
Linseed oil
34. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Cement
Grisaille
Sfumato
Rough paper
35. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Aperture
Barabara Krugel
Dome
Linseed oil
36. 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
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Dry Point
Color field painting
Thomas Gainsborough
37. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
Tempera paint
gesso
Rembrandt
Rotunda
38. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston
film speed
Abstract Expressionist Artists
scumbling
Corinthian columns
39. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
analogous Colors
Gouache
stain glass in a cathedral
Film Speed
40. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
Tapestry
Emphasis
Gel medium
Kinetic art
41. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
Isocephaly
Julio Gonzalez
Tint
Corinthian columns
42. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Monochrome printing
dry - brushing
Mayan
Environmental Art
43. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Romanesque
Tessera
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Basic Elements of Sculpture
44. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Adena Indian habitats
aquatint
Scoring
Column of Trajan
45. 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.
Rembrandt
Film Speed
scumbling
film speed
46. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
vehicle
weft
Frottage
Facing forward and stiff
47. Origin is Mayan
Forms of Charcoal
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Hagia Sophia
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
48. AP on an art product means what
Thomas Gainsborough
warp
Corinthian columns
Artist Proof
49. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
'fat over lean'
Facing forward and stiff
Rabbit Skin Glue
50. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
Brown
Artists associated with Pointillism
Mississippian
Joseph Beuys