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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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1. 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
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Pastel
Basquiat
2. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
Chiaroscuro
Stoneware
Brown
Turpentine
3. A ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both. Ancient Ea ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the su
Rough paper
African masks
the golden section (architecture)
Tessera
4. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Equipment used in oil painting
Dry Point
Rococo
Brushed used in oil painting
5. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
three point perspective
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Abstract Expressionist Artists
frisket
6. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Equipment used in oil painting
Rodin
Georgian Style
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
7. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Wood and bronze
Japanese art and buildings
scumbling
binder
8. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
Design Principles
intaglio
Environmental Art
Crenellation
9. Who made large portraits of friends?
Chiaroscuro
Rotunda
Rodin
David Hockney
10. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Armature
Hagia Sophia
Ionic columns
Elements of Art
11. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Gothic Cathedrals
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Forms of Charcoal
gouache
12. Woven wall hangings.
Social Murals
Emphasis
Sfumato
Tapestry
13. 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.
slip
Sfumato
Depression art
Pumice
14. ...
Film Speed
Artists associated with Pointillism
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
15. Huge stones
weft
Designed the Barcelona chair
Brown
megalith
16. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Kinetic art
Pop artists
Tint
Women artist of the 19th century
17. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Rabbit Skin Glue
megalith
Assemblage
analogous Colors
18. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
Frida Kahlo
'fat over lean'
Ceramic - Sgraffito
film speed
19. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Pop artists
Dome
film speed
Tessera
20. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
slip
Emphasis
Assemblage
William Blake
21. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
Elements of Art
modeling
film speed
Design Elements
22. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Elements of Art
megalith
Design Principles
William Blake
23. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston
Sfumato
Croquis
Abstract Expressionist Artists
I.M. Pei
24. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Social Realism
Another term used for buddhist temple
Japanese art and buildings
Depression era Artists
25. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Environmental Art
Barabara Krugel
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
'fat over lean'
26. Rene Magritte
Albert Durer
Dagyuerrotype
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Home Insurance Building in NYC
27. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Dry Point
Joseph Beuys
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Rococo
28. 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
Parchment
vehicle
Printmaking Techniques
29. Made by Gustav Eiffel - Eiffel - marks the centennial celebration of the French Revolution. Liberty - iconic symbol of freedom and of the United States. French gave the US - statue of liberty
Stoneware
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Depth of Field
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
30. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
CMYK
Principle of Art
Describe the process of fresco
31. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
African masks
Jewelry tools
Embroidery
Tenebrism
32. Used in water printing
Meyer Schapiro
Acrylic paint
gesso
Joseph Beuys
33. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Isocephaly
Assemblage
megalith
34. His versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man
Pastel
Another term used for buddhist temple
Michelangelo
Rough paper
35. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Encaustic
Yarn
Paint Extender
Tapestry
36. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Grisaille
Rabbit Skin Glue
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Lotus postition
37. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Frida Kahlo
Film Speed
Design Elements
Pop artists
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.
Loom
rhythm
Trompe - l'oil
Abstract Expressionist Artists
39. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
CMYK
Monochrome printing
Depression art
Safety glasses
40. To make a quick sketch
Croquis
Julio Gonzalez
Tapestry
Shade
41. 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
Wood and bronze
Brushed used in oil painting
Stoneware
42. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Trompe - l'oil
intermediate colors
Shade
Michelangelo
43. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Rotunda
Social Realism
Jewelry tools
Rococo
44. Example of baroque architecture
Dry Point
nave
Palace of Versaille
Used to protect pastel artwork
45. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Elements of Art
Yarn
Parchment
Scoring
46. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
The post - and - lintel system
Armature
Georgian Style
Pop artists
47. Hard - dense firebrick generally used only in high - stress areas of kiln (floor - burner ports - flues - bagwall) and for corrosive firing processes (salt - soda - wood).
Tapestry
Hardbrick
Column of Trajan
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
48. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Another term used for buddhist temple
Social Murals
Principle of Art
49. 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
rhythm
Sulfur
Romanesque Cathedrals
Equipment used in oil painting
50. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
Neoclassical
Equipment used in oil painting
Rabbit Skin Glue
Frida Kahlo