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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. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
Cast concrete - modeling
Film Speed
intaglio
Rotunda
2. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Gel medium
CMYK
Brushed used in oil painting
Meyer Schapiro
3. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Film Speed
Baroque painting
Tempera paint
Environmental Art
4. Used her life experiences into her artwork - including her marriage - her miscarriages - and her numerous operations - works often are characterized by their stark portrayals of pain - combined elements of the classic religious Mexican tradition with
Social Realism
Frida Kahlo
David Hockney
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
5. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Forms of Charcoal
Mayan
Trompe - l'oil
Aperture
6. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Dome
Charcoal pen
Palace of Versaille
Color field painting
7. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
film speed
Linear perspective
David Hockney
value
8. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Brushed used in oil painting
Frottage
Albert Durer
Julio Gonzalez
9. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
analogous Colors
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Gothic Cathedrals
Carving Tools
10. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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11. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Pop artists
Basic Elements of Sculpture
I.M. Pei
Tint
12. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
Basquiat
Pointillism
modeling
Mayan
13. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Pop artists
Loom
Forms of Charcoal
Grisaille
14. Origin is Mayan
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Crenellation
aquatint
Egg Tempera
15. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
film speed
Yarn
Photogravure
Ionic columns
16. To make a quick sketch
Stoneware
Croquis
megalith
Meyer Schapiro
17. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Used to protect pastel artwork
Rabbit Skin Glue
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Sulfur
18. Pagoda
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Rabbit Skin Glue
megalith
Another term used for buddhist temple
19. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Crenellation
Shutter Speed
film speed
CMYK
20. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
analogous Colors
Film Speed
Printmaking Techniques
Turpentine
21. 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
best resolution in a digital photo?
Motif
Ionic columns
22. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Depth of Field
Women artist of the 19th century
Degas and Cassett
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
23. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Column of Trajan
Environmental Art
Doric columns
Fire clay
24. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
chromatic gray
Pumice
Parchment
rhythm
25. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Shade
warp
Facing forward and stiff
Turpentine
26. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Barabara Krugel
Bas
I.M. Pei
Photogravure
27. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
African masks
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
African Benin Sculputure
The post - and - lintel system
28. The central area of a church
Egg Tempera
Design Elements
Kinetic art
nave
29. 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.
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Film Speed
Tempera paint
Tessera
30. 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.
CMYK
scumbling
Rough paper
intermediate colors
31. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
intermediate colors
Rough paper
frisket
Corinthian columns
32. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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33. 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
Romanesque Cathedrals
Julio Gonzalez
weft
dry - brushing
34. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
wedging the clay
Water
Tessera
Social Realism
35. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Assemblage
Loom
Value
intaglio
36. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
kinds of stones for stone carving
Gouache
frisket
Gel medium
37. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
scumbling
best resolution in a digital photo?
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Brushed used in oil painting
38. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
Sulfur
wedging the clay
kinds of stones for stone carving
Shade
39. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Photorealism
Rotunda
Appropriation Art
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
40. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
kinds of stones for stone carving
Used to protect pastel artwork
intermediate colors
Emphasis
41. What city had the first skyscraper?
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Home Insurance Building in NYC
David Hockney
42. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
African masks
Basquiat
Adena Indian habitats
A black line
43. The second oldest medium after encaustic. It was used by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks and perfected by the icon painters during the last 100 years of the old Byzantine Empire (400 AD-1202 AD).
Frottage
Assemblage
Egg Tempera
Michelangelo
44. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
Tempera paint
the golden section (architecture)
The Renaissance
weft
45. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Albert Durer
Equipment used in oil painting
intaglio
Enameling
46. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Ionic columns
African Benin Sculputure
Rough paper
Design Elements
47. Cyan - Magenta - Yellow - Key (blacK). This ystem is used for printing. For mixing of pigments - it is better to use the secondary colours - since they mix subtractively instead of additively.
Crenellation
Safety glasses
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
CMYK
48. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Corinthian columns
Egg Tempera
Turpentine
Designed the Barcelona chair
49. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Dry Point
gesso
William Blake
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
50. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
Forms of Charcoal
Paint Extender
Sfumato
Mississippian