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Praxis 2 Art
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1. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Isocephaly
Color field painting artists
Tint
Romanesque
2. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Mayan
Sulfur
Romanesque Cathedrals
3. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Environmental Art
Emphasis
Safety glasses
4. Came in response to the darkness and heaviness of Baroque art - but did continue many of the ideals specified during the 17th century. Rococo related much more to decorative shapes as well as the natural and organic. Swirling shapes and asymmetrical
Rotunda
Rococo
Chiaroscuro
Basic Elements of Sculpture
5. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Thomas Gainsborough
Mississippian
stain glass in a cathedral
Turpentine
6. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Rotunda
Barabara Krugel
gouache
Egg Tempera
7. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Romanesque
Color field painting
Corinthian columns
8. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Armature
Artists associated with Pointillism
frisket
Islam art
9. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Rice paper
Pointillism
Sulfur
Pumice
10. What is another work for low relief?
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Bas
Wedging
Rice paper
11. Fix
Encaustic
Rodin
Egg Tempera
Used to protect pastel artwork
12. The laying of paint thickly
Environmental Art
Mississippian
Impasto
Designed the Barcelona chair
13. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
Assemblage
rhythm
Equipment used in oil painting
African masks
14. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Safety glasses
Frida Kahlo
I.M. Pei
15. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Equipment used in oil painting
Brushed used in oil painting
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
16. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
Social Realism
rhythm
Color field painting artists
Islam art
17. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Linear perspective
Cement
Mayan
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
18. A German performance artist - sculptor - installation artist - graphic artist - art theorist and pedagogue of art. Artwork: Performance : How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare
Dry Point
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Joseph Beuys
19. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Adena Indian habitats
gouache
intermediate colors
Wood and bronze
20. 3X 5300 pixels
Rococo
best resolution in a digital photo?
Pointillism
Abstract Expressionist Artists
21. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Crenellation
best resolution in a digital photo?
rhythm
Charcoal pen
22. 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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23. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
Photogravure
Tapestry
chromatic gray
Neoclassical
24. 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.
nave
Albert Durer
Tint
Equipment used in oil painting
25. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Principle of Art
Tapestry
Assemblage
film speed
26. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Design Principles
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Chiaroscuro
vehicle
27. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
the golden section (architecture)
Meyer Schapiro
Used to protect pastel artwork
Acrylic paint
28. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Parchment
Camera Obscura
African masks
Depth of Field
29. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Brushed used in oil painting
megalith
Cast concrete - modeling
Ceramic glaze
30. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
best resolution in a digital photo?
Romantic Era
Pop artists
Loom
31. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Degas and Cassett
Rotunda
Tessera
Frida Kahlo
32. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
Grisaille
intermediate colors
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Mississippian
33. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
rhythm
Water
Bas
Design Elements
34. Rene Magritte
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Social Murals
Frida Kahlo
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
35. 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.
Japanese art and buildings
Thomas Gainsborough
Film Speed
gouache
36. ...
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
frisket
Brushed used in oil painting
Ceramic - Sgraffito
37. Made out of Metal
Paint Extender
Meyer Schapiro
African Benin Sculputure
Fire clay
38. Woven wall hangings.
Rice paper
Column of Trajan
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Tapestry
39. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Social Murals
rhythm
Neoclassical
Describe the process of fresco
40. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
Charcoal pen
Photorealism
Pastel
Depression art
41. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Gothic Cathedrals
Artist Proof
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Another term used for buddhist temple
42. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Linear perspective
Facing forward and stiff
Grisaille
Mayan
43. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Frida Kahlo
Monochrome printing
Charcoal pen
Batik
44. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
Carving Tools
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Pastel
Palace of Versaille
45. Known by its massive quality - its thick walls - round arches - sturdy piers - groin vaults - large towers and decorative arcading. Each building has clearly defined forms and they are frequently of very regular - symmetrical plan so that the overall
frisket
Artists associated with Pointillism
Column of Trajan
Romanesque Cathedrals
46. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
intermediate colors
modeling
Brushed used in oil painting
Adena Indian habitats
47. Air - dry unfired clay
Greenware
Loom
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
scumbling
48. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Julio Gonzalez
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
film speed
Depression art
49. Gray made by mixing complements
Ceramic glaze
chromatic gray
Pop artists
Artist Proof
50. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Color field painting
Doric columns
Safety glasses
Environmental Art