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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. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
Rotunda
Esquisse
slip
Enameling
2. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Isocephaly
weft
Chiaroscuro
Home Insurance Building in NYC
3. Gouge and chisel
Paint Extender
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Turpentine
Carving Tools
4. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
Dome
Water
Islam art
Neoclassical
5. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
Armature
analogous Colors
Depression era Artists
Thomas Gainsborough
6. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
Color field painting artists
Sfumato
modeling
Another term used for buddhist temple
7. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
Linear perspective
Yarn
Van Der Zee
gouache
8. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Neoclassical
Turpentine
Forms of Charcoal
9. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Jewelry tools
Romantic Era
Rabbit Skin Glue
Mississippian
10. Neo expressionist artist - Jean - Michel Basquiat was an American painter who rose to fame in the 1980s - and was the first African - American artist to gain international acclaim. His emotionally - charged paintings gave rise to graffiti art and the
Basquiat
Stoneware
Mayan
Tint
11. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
dry - brushing
Crenellation
three point perspective
Dry Point
12. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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13. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Japanese art and buildings
Value
Frida Kahlo
Tessera
14. A school - style - or method of painting - adopted chiefly by 17th - century Spanish and Neapolitan painters - esp Caravaggio - characterized by large areas of dark colours - usually relieved with a shaft of ligh
wedging the clay
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Used to protect pastel artwork
Tenebrism
15. 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.
Facing forward and stiff
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Film Speed
16. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Romantic Era
Principle of Art
Albert Durer
Tenebrism
17. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
frisket
Motif
Scoring
Tenebrism
18. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Another term used for buddhist temple
Fire clay
kinds of stones for stone carving
Collage
19. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Parchment
Joseph Beuys
Pop artists
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
20. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
modeling
Column of Trajan
Artists associated with Pointillism
Bas
21. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Rodin
Camera Obscura
Dome
Armature
22. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
Assemblage
Turpentine
Dome
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
23. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
Rodin
Pop artists
Pastel
Ceramic - Sgraffito
24. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Gel medium
Egg Tempera
Social Murals
Isocephaly
25. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Palace of Versaille
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Thomas Gainsborough
Design Elements
26. Possin was a French painter in the classical style.Themes of tragedy and death are prevalent in Poussin's work.[13] Et in Arcadia ego - a subject he painted twice (second version is seen at right) - exemplifies his cerebral approach. In this composit
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27. Who made large portraits of friends?
David Hockney
Column of Trajan
Georgian Style
Esquisse
28. Continuous frieze
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Column of Trajan
Scoring
Shade
29. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Parchment
kinds of stones for stone carving
chromatic gray
Yarn
30. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Environmental Art
megalith
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Romanesque Cathedrals
31. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Parchment
Artist Proof
Describe the process of fresco
Principle of Art
32. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Islam art
Wood and bronze
William Blake
33. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Cement
Linear perspective
David Hockney
Sfumato
34. 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'.
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
gouache
Romantic Era
Brushed used in oil painting
35. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Dome
Value
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Romantic Era
36. 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
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Rococo
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Armature
37. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Dome
Bas
Esquisse
38. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
Frida Kahlo
Enameling
rhythm
Mississippian
39. Gray made by mixing complements
Gouache
megalith
chromatic gray
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
40. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Croquis
Collage
Wedging
kinds of stones for stone carving
41. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
kinds of stones for stone carving
Motif
Design Principles
Brown
42. 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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43. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Designed the Barcelona chair
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Depression art
kinds of stones for stone carving
44. Woven wall hangings.
Women artist of the 19th century
Tapestry
Depth of Field
scumbling
45. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
African masks
Van Der Zee
Rotunda
frisket
46. Sculptor. Major Work: The Thinker - a naturalist - less concerned with monumental expression than with character and emotion. Departing with centuries of tradition - he turned away from the idealism of the Greeks - and the decorative beauty of the Ba
Gouache
film speed
Rodin
modeling
47. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Egg Tempera
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
dry - brushing
Meyer Schapiro
48. Huge stones
intermediate colors
'fat over lean'
Color field painting artists
megalith
49. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Meyer Schapiro
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Brushed used in oil painting
50. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Corinthian columns
Social Realism
Design Principles