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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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1. 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
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Rococo
Gothic Cathedrals
three point perspective
2. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Turpentine
Photogravure
Gel medium
Design Principles
3. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
scumbling
Lotus postition
Gel medium
Doric columns
4. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Esquisse
Japanese art and buildings
Enameling
5. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Sfumato
Degas and Cassett
Design Principles
Embroidery
6. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Brown
Column of Trajan
Stoneware
Brushed used in oil painting
7. 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
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Linear perspective
Artists associated with Pointillism
Greenware
8. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Rodin
Safety glasses
Romantic Era
9. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Tapestry
Armature
Tessera
Gouache
10. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Thomas Gainsborough
Neoclassical
Brown
Linear perspective
11. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
The Renaissance
Georgian Style
aquatint
Hardbrick
12. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
balance
Basquiat
Tapestry
Equipment used in oil painting
13. 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
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Hagia Sophia
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
William Blake
14. Who said ' less is more'?
modeling
Artists associated with Pointillism
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
weft
15. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Julio Gonzalez
value
Isocephaly
Ionic columns
16. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Gel medium
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Chiaroscuro
Lotus postition
17. Continuous frieze
Greenware
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Color field painting artists
Column of Trajan
18. The laying of paint thickly
Shutter Speed
Trompe - l'oil
Impasto
Charcoal pen
19. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Baroque painting
Safety glasses
Tapestry
Brown
20. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Yarn
Gouache
Greenware
Barabara Krugel
21. 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
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Rabbit Skin Glue
Rough paper
22. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Shade
Gel medium
Hagia Sophia
Titan's key works
23. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
wedging the clay
Motif
Acrylic paint
Tessera
24. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Designed the Barcelona chair
Social Murals
Sfumato
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
25. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Crenellation
Forms of Charcoal
value
Abstract Expressionist Artists
26. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Julio Gonzalez
Motif
Georgian Style
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
27. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
warp
Principle of Art
Tempera paint
Wedging
28. 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.
Armature
Frottage
film speed
Color field painting
29. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
Mississippian
Social Murals
chromatic gray
Charcoal pen
30. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Printmaking Techniques
Gouache
31. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Linear perspective
Collage
Stoneware
Degas and Cassett
32. Woven wall hangings.
Tempera paint
Fire clay
Tapestry
Albert Durer
33. 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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34. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Cement
Motif
I.M. Pei
35. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Safety glasses
Depth of Field
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Social Realism
36. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
modeling
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Loom
stain glass in a cathedral
37. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
Pointillism
Brown
Basquiat
film speed
38. Made out of Metal
Emphasis
Isocephaly
Forms of Charcoal
African Benin Sculputure
39. Gouge and chisel
Carving Tools
Dome
Cement
Elements of Art
40. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Adena Indian habitats
Corinthian columns
Equipment used in oil painting
Bas
41. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
constructed the Spiral Jetty
nave
Color field painting
Barabara Krugel
42. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Barabara Krugel
Gel medium
Encaustic
Water
43. rayons resistant to what?
Water
Tapestry
Safety glasses
Charcoal pen
44. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Design Elements
Bas
Appropriation Art
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
45. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
gouache
Used to protect pastel artwork
Stoneware properties
Depression era Artists
46. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
Palace of Versaille
analogous Colors
Gothic Cathedrals
Egg Tempera
47. Symmetrical balance
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48. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
Gouache
Japanese art and buildings
Assemblage
three point perspective
49. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Rococo
Monochrome printing
Jewelry tools
Social Murals
50. 3X 5300 pixels
Rabbit Skin Glue
Grisaille
best resolution in a digital photo?
modeling