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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Jewelry tools
Dome
Designed the Barcelona chair
2. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Lotus postition
Gothic Cathedrals
Crenellation
Linseed oil
3. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Color field painting artists
Women artist of the 19th century
scumbling
Known Rodin prints
4. Rocks - pebbles etc - 'a hole can it self have as much shape meaning as a solid mass. The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation. The hole connects one side to the other - making it immediately more three - dimensional. A hole can i
Mayan
slip
Joseph Beuys
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
5. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Van Der Zee
Pastel
Social Murals
Doric columns
6. 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
'fat over lean'
Romanesque Cathedrals
Principle of Art
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
7. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Printmaking Techniques
Charcoal pen
Meyer Schapiro
Batik
8. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Batik
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Mayan
Rembrandt
9. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
CMYK
Printmaking Techniques
vehicle
Tapestry
10. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Paint Extender
Describe the process of fresco
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Frida Kahlo
11. 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.
value
Rice paper
Home Insurance Building in NYC
scumbling
12. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Gel medium
weft
Basquiat
Collage
13. Meaning to rub a crayon or other tool onto paper or other material - which is placed onto a textured surface - in order to create the texture of that surface on the paper.
Describe the process of fresco
Frottage
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Ionic columns
14. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Facing forward and stiff
Pop artists
Encaustic
CMYK
15. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
Shade
A black line
Emphasis
Color field painting artists
16. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
Another term used for buddhist temple
Equipment used in oil painting
weft
Kinetic art
17. 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.
Forms of Charcoal
Film Speed
value
Van Der Zee
18. 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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19. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Color field painting
Elements of Art
Column of Trajan
Tint
20. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Palace of Versaille
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Environmental Art
Tessera
21. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Carving Tools
Artist Proof
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Design Principles
22. The art of working raised and ornamental designs in threads of silk - cotton - gold - silver - or other material - upon any woven fabric - leather - paper - etc. - with a needle.
stain glass in a cathedral
Embroidery
warp
Acrylic paint
23. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Motif
Enameling
Sfumato
Croquis
24. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Women artist of the 19th century
warp
Linseed oil
Yarn
25. 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
Rabbit Skin Glue
Rembrandt
Meyer Schapiro
Romanesque Cathedrals
26. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Shutter Speed
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Artists associated with Pointillism
The post - and - lintel system
27. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Monochrome printing
Rotunda
Pop artists
28. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Rembrandt
Monochrome printing
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Croquis
29. 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.
Fire clay
Sfumato
Aperture
stain glass in a cathedral
30. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Photogravure
Depression era Artists
megalith
31. rayons resistant to what?
Loom
I.M. Pei
Water
Abstract Expressionist Artists
32. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Pumice
Greenware
value
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
33. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
Emphasis
Frida Kahlo
Paint Extender
I.M. Pei
34. ...
Principle of Art
warp
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Tenebrism
35. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Depth of Field
chromatic gray
Appropriation Art
Grisaille
36. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Crenellation
CMYK
37. Rene Magritte
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Paint Extender
Equipment used in oil painting
Mayan
38. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
Film Speed
Neoclassical
Dry Point
Adena Indian habitats
39. 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
three point perspective
Baroque painting
Value
Describe the process of fresco
40. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Charcoal pen
Printmaking Techniques
megalith
vehicle
41. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
African Benin Sculputure
Jewelry tools
Lotus postition
Cast concrete - modeling
42. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
gouache
Grisaille
Batik
Wedging
43. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Parchment
Isocephaly
binder
analogous Colors
44. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
Crenellation
warp
Social Realism
Pointillism
45. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Romanesque Cathedrals
scumbling
Mayan
Michelangelo
46. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Women artist of the 19th century
rhythm
Bas
Film Speed
47. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
Scoring
Emphasis
Albert Durer
Degas and Cassett
48. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
Turpentine
Stepped Pyramid Temples
binder
Acrylic paint
49. Pagoda
Appropriation Art
Another term used for buddhist temple
Dagyuerrotype
best resolution in a digital photo?
50. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
Depression art
African masks
value
Stoneware