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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
Another term used for buddhist temple
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
I.M. Pei
2. Air - dry unfired clay
Yarn
Michelangelo
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Greenware
3. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Fire clay
Yarn
Pop artists
Basquiat
4. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Dome
Brown
Fire clay
Film Speed
5. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
warp
'fat over lean'
Loom
Mississippian
6. Used in water printing
weft
Albert Durer
Romanesque
Acrylic paint
7. 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
Baroque painting
Known Rodin prints
Japanese art and buildings
frisket
8. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
Color field painting artists
Pastel
Designed the Barcelona chair
Depression art
9. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
Neoclassical
Sulfur
the golden section (architecture)
Isocephaly
10. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Depression art
Linear perspective
Joseph Beuys
Shutter Speed
11. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Emphasis
Pumice
Isocephaly
Barabara Krugel
12. 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
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Rococo
Thomas Gainsborough
Julio Gonzalez
13. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Known Rodin prints
scumbling
Collage
film speed
14. Huge stones
Emphasis
Tempera paint
Grisaille
megalith
15. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
African masks
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Turpentine
weft
16. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Column of Trajan
Paint Extender
Depression era Artists
Van Der Zee
17. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Ceramic glaze
Gouache
Rotunda
Bas
18. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Artists associated with Pointillism
Camera Obscura
Shade
The post - and - lintel system
19. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
The Renaissance
David Hockney
Kinetic art
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
20. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Barabara Krugel
Fire clay
Linear perspective
Bas
21. To make a quick sketch
Another term used for buddhist temple
dry - brushing
Croquis
Acrylic paint
22. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Stepped Pyramid Temples
William Blake
The post - and - lintel system
Loom
23. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Japanese art and buildings
Stoneware
Describe the process of fresco
Baroque painting
24. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
'fat over lean'
slip
Describe the process of fresco
Emphasis
25. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Barabara Krugel
Pop artists
'fat over lean'
Parchment
26. A form of painting in which tiny dots of primary - colors are used to generate secondary colors. It is very similar to Divisionism - except that where Divisionism is concerned with color theory - Pointillism is more focused on the specific style of b
Monochrome printing
Pointillism
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Hardbrick
27. 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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28. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Wedging
Kinetic art
Sfumato
Tapestry
29. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
Ionic columns
Mississippian
Kinetic art
binder
30. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Printmaking Techniques
Depression era Artists
Armature
modeling
31. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Degas and Cassett
Sulfur
Rembrandt
Neoclassical
32. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Acrylic paint
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Batik
33. 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
Social Murals
Trompe - l'oil
Romanesque Cathedrals
Rodin
34. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
aquatint
three point perspective
wedging the clay
gesso
35. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
intermediate colors
Rough paper
Thomas Gainsborough
kinds of stones for stone carving
36. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Pop artists
Tapestry
Frida Kahlo
Cast concrete - modeling
37. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Encaustic
Stoneware
weft
Forms of Charcoal
38. ...
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
best resolution in a digital photo?
Hardbrick
Turpentine
39. A dominant idea or central theme
Used to protect pastel artwork
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Motif
Collage
40. Focused on the depiction of patterns and Arabic calligraphy - rather than on figures - because it is feared by many Muslims that the depiction of the human form is idolatry and thereby a sin against God - forbidden in the Qur'an.
Color field painting
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Islam art
Mississippian
41. 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.
Tenebrism
Sfumato
Greenware
Pumice
42. 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.
CMYK
Frida Kahlo
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Impasto
43. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Stoneware properties
Brushed used in oil painting
Color field painting
analogous Colors
44. 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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45. 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.
Forms of Charcoal
Frottage
African Benin Sculputure
Tapestry
46. Gouge and chisel
Used to protect pastel artwork
Carving Tools
Stoneware properties
Depression era Artists
47. 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
Assemblage
Depression era Artists
frisket
Romanesque Cathedrals
48. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Women artist of the 19th century
Equipment used in oil painting
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Social Murals
49. What is another work for low relief?
Bas
Grisaille
Joseph Beuys
warp
50. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Armature
Degas and Cassett
Rice paper
film speed