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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. 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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2. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Crenellation
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Social Murals
Georgian Style
3. 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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4. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Photogravure
nave
Social Murals
Armature
5. Example of baroque architecture
Romanesque
Neoclassical
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Palace of Versaille
6. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
Degas and Cassett
Pastel
Mayan
aquatint
7. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Greenware
Safety glasses
Cement
Kinetic art
8. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
Rabbit Skin Glue
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Rococo
Design Principles
9. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Pumice
Isocephaly
frisket
Environmental Art
10. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Pop artists
Hagia Sophia
aquatint
intermediate colors
11. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Stoneware properties
Charcoal pen
Depression art
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
12. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Design Elements
Van Der Zee
Pointillism
Dagyuerrotype
13. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
A black line
Charcoal pen
Water
Color field painting
14. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
intaglio
Elements of Art
Degas and Cassett
Linseed oil
15. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Mississippian
African Benin Sculputure
Monochrome printing
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
16. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Romanesque
Wedging
Romantic Era
intermediate colors
17. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
David Hockney
Gouache
Kinetic art
A black line
18. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
the golden section (architecture)
Grisaille
Basic Elements of Sculpture
stain glass in a cathedral
19. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
megalith
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Lotus postition
Safety glasses
20. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Rice paper
Trompe - l'oil
chromatic gray
Brushed used in oil painting
21. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
modeling
Titan's key works
Designed the Barcelona chair
The post - and - lintel system
22. 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.
the golden section (architecture)
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Frottage
Adena Indian habitats
23. Italian term meaning smoke - describing a very delicate gradation of light and shade in the modeling of figures; often ascribed to Da Vinci's work.
Cast concrete - modeling
Sfumato
rhythm
Assemblage
24. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Sfumato
Artists associated with Pointillism
CMYK
Depression era Artists
25. 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
Collage
William Blake
Monochrome printing
Scoring
26. rayons resistant to what?
Albert Durer
Water
Armature
Collage
27. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Thomas Gainsborough
Printmaking Techniques
Brushed used in oil painting
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
28. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Social Murals
The Renaissance
Camera Obscura
29. 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.
Dome
dry - brushing
Pumice
Joseph Beuys
30. 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.
Embroidery
Romantic Era
balance
Tint
31. 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.
Tempera paint
Kinetic art
best resolution in a digital photo?
A black line
32. 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
Doric columns
Another term used for buddhist temple
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Joseph Beuys
33. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
gouache
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
34. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Crenellation
balance
stain glass in a cathedral
Albert Durer
35. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
aquatint
Mississippian
Esquisse
Printmaking Techniques
36. 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.
Sulfur
Rice paper
scumbling
Rotunda
37. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Pointillism
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
38. Huge stones
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Parchment
Printmaking Techniques
megalith
39. 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
Safety glasses
Brushed used in oil painting
Aperture
40. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Esquisse
Describe the process of fresco
Assemblage
best resolution in a digital photo?
41. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Meyer Schapiro
Egg Tempera
Principle of Art
Baroque painting
42. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Enameling
Value
Rembrandt
Rice paper
43. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
wedging the clay
frisket
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Elements of Art
44. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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45. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Adena Indian habitats
scumbling
stain glass in a cathedral
Linseed oil
46. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Scoring
Describe the process of fresco
Social Realism
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
47. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Camera Obscura
Abstract Expressionist Artists
vehicle
Chiaroscuro
48. 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
Mayan
African Benin Sculputure
CMYK
49. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Dry Point
Value
Shutter Speed
Yarn
50. 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
Croquis
Used to protect pastel artwork
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
stain glass in a cathedral