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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. 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
Michelangelo
Forms of Charcoal
Rembrandt
Value
2. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Rough paper
Mayan
Artists associated with Pointillism
Sfumato
3. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
Social Murals
Equipment used in oil painting
Mississippian
Abstract Expressionist Artists
4. A painting medium in which pigment is mixed with water - soluble glutinous materials such as size or egg yolk. Also called poster color - poster paint.
Chiaroscuro
dry - brushing
Tempera paint
Isocephaly
5. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Rotunda
Depression art
Palace of Versaille
Rembrandt
6. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
Tenebrism
Facing forward and stiff
Film Speed
intermediate colors
7. rayons resistant to what?
Water
Japanese art and buildings
Romantic Era
African Benin Sculputure
8. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Photogravure
Chiaroscuro
9. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
Describe the process of fresco
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Croquis
Color field painting artists
10. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Assemblage
Ionic columns
Acrylic paint
Scoring
11. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
Environmental Art
Artist Proof
Isocephaly
Emphasis
12. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Acrylic paint
Facing forward and stiff
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Value
13. Origin is Mayan
David Hockney
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Artist Proof
Stoneware
14. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Rotunda
Design Principles
weft
15. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Tempera paint
Romantic Era
Design Elements
Designed the Barcelona chair
16. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Artist Proof
Social Murals
gesso
Environmental Art
17. Air - dry unfired clay
Greenware
Value
Artists associated with Pointillism
Elements of Art
18. 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.
Islam art
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Social Realism
Shade
19. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
frisket
Loom
Thomas Gainsborough
Tapestry
20. 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
Tint
The post - and - lintel system
William Blake
Shade
21. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Women artist of the 19th century
gouache
Stoneware properties
African masks
22. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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23. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Gothic Cathedrals
warp
Adena Indian habitats
kinds of stones for stone carving
24. 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
Rembrandt
Japanese art and buildings
Van Der Zee
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
25. An art and design principle concerned with the arrangement of one or more elements in a work of art so that they appear symmetrical (even) or asymmetrical (uneven) in design and proportion.
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Pop artists
balance
Basic Elements of Sculpture
26. A dominant idea or central theme
Designed the Barcelona chair
stain glass in a cathedral
Motif
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
27. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Lotus postition
Motif
Pop artists
Ionic columns
28. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Fire clay
Women artist of the 19th century
Describe the process of fresco
Doric columns
29. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Julio Gonzalez
Color field painting
Neoclassical
Grisaille
30. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Frida Kahlo
Palace of Versaille
Pastel
Shade
31. Rene Magritte
Chiaroscuro
Stoneware properties
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
the golden section (architecture)
32. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
Jewelry tools
Dome
Known Rodin prints
binder
33. 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.
kinds of stones for stone carving
CMYK
Depression art
The Renaissance
34. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
Stoneware properties
The Renaissance
Hardbrick
modeling
35. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Neoclassical
Hagia Sophia
Stoneware properties
Barabara Krugel
36. Is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions.
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37. Fix
Photorealism
The post - and - lintel system
Tenebrism
Used to protect pastel artwork
38. Example of baroque architecture
Meyer Schapiro
Collage
Parchment
Palace of Versaille
39. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Tempera paint
Parchment
Isocephaly
African Benin Sculputure
40. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
weft
Design Principles
dry - brushing
Environmental Art
41. 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.
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Collage
dry - brushing
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
42. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Rabbit Skin Glue
intaglio
Islam art
Greenware
43. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Bas
Dome
Assemblage
the golden section (architecture)
44. Woven wall hangings.
best resolution in a digital photo?
Michelangelo
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Tapestry
45. What is another work for low relief?
Rough paper
I.M. Pei
Aperture
Bas
46. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
Georgian Style
rhythm
Doric columns
slip
47. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
vehicle
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Artist Proof
48. The principle in oil painting that suggests each layer of paint should contain more oil than the one beneath. Awareness of this concept helps ensure permanence.
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49. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Cement
Appropriation Art
Elements of Art
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
50. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Linear perspective
Another term used for buddhist temple
Tapestry
Facing forward and stiff