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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. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Thomas Gainsborough
African Benin Sculputure
Parchment
Describe the process of fresco
2. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Ionic columns
African Benin Sculputure
Printmaking Techniques
Chiaroscuro
3. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Julio Gonzalez
Depth of Field
Pop artists
Loom
4. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
aquatint
David Hockney
dry - brushing
Rembrandt
5. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
Michelangelo
three point perspective
Hardbrick
Safety glasses
6. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
Color field painting artists
Barabara Krugel
Column of Trajan
Rococo
7. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Tapestry
Impasto
Fire clay
Camera Obscura
8. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Design Elements
African Benin Sculputure
Artists associated with Pointillism
Sfumato
9. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
film speed
Wood and bronze
Social Realism
Wedging
10. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston
gesso
Abstract Expressionist Artists
megalith
Doric columns
11. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Tapestry
Isocephaly
Yarn
Wood and bronze
12. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Design Elements
African Benin Sculputure
Equipment used in oil painting
Gothic Cathedrals
13. Who made large portraits of friends?
Water
Tempera paint
David Hockney
Stoneware
14. Pagoda
Another term used for buddhist temple
Principle of Art
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
slip
15. Gouge and chisel
Pointillism
Frida Kahlo
Paint Extender
Carving Tools
16. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Parchment
Equipment used in oil painting
Safety glasses
Rabbit Skin Glue
17. 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'.
Lotus postition
Column of Trajan
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
18. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Mississippian
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
warp
Linear perspective
19. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
William Blake
Enameling
nave
vehicle
20. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Gel medium
Depression art
Motif
Color field painting artists
21. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Degas and Cassett
value
Linear perspective
Acrylic paint
22. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
William Blake
balance
Cast concrete - modeling
rhythm
23. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Sfumato
Ceramic glaze
Albert Durer
Barabara Krugel
24. Woven wall hangings.
dry - brushing
Tapestry
constructed the Spiral Jetty
three point perspective
25. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
Wedging
Design Elements
Stoneware properties
film speed
26. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
Ionic columns
film speed
slip
Shutter Speed
27. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
Linseed oil
vehicle
rhythm
Depression art
28. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Gel medium
Batik
The post - and - lintel system
29. 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
gouache
Tenebrism
Jewelry tools
30. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
chromatic gray
best resolution in a digital photo?
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Basic Elements of Sculpture
31. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Trompe - l'oil
Wedging
Japanese art and buildings
chromatic gray
32. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Romanesque
Describe the process of fresco
Column of Trajan
Design Elements
33. 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.
Kinetic art
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Paint Extender
Albert Durer
34. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Appropriation Art
Wedging
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Column of Trajan
35. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Esquisse
binder
Gothic Cathedrals
intermediate colors
36. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
Pop artists
Column of Trajan
Sulfur
African masks
37. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Rococo
A black line
Tint
38. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Doric columns
intermediate colors
Shutter Speed
Depth of Field
39. 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.
gesso
Camera Obscura
Photogravure
Tempera paint
40. 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
analogous Colors
Romanesque
Mississippian
nave
41. Continuous frieze
Camera Obscura
Column of Trajan
Impasto
Encaustic
42. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
warp
Baroque painting
Forms of Charcoal
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
43. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Dome
Chiaroscuro
Dagyuerrotype
Loom
44. 3X 5300 pixels
Color field painting
Water
best resolution in a digital photo?
Tapestry
45. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Lotus postition
Dome
Frida Kahlo
46. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Meyer Schapiro
Camera Obscura
Islam art
Rough paper
47. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
Barabara Krugel
Enameling
Turpentine
Designed the Barcelona chair
48. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Shutter Speed
balance
Degas and Cassett
intaglio
49. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Trompe - l'oil
David Hockney
Photogravure
50. Gray made by mixing complements
Collage
Used to protect pastel artwork
chromatic gray
Color field painting artists