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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. Most common oil in oil paints
Linseed oil
Chiaroscuro
Tenebrism
Hardbrick
2. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
A black line
vehicle
Pointillism
Aperture
3. 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
slip
Gel medium
Joseph Beuys
Michelangelo
4. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Frida Kahlo
Facing forward and stiff
Rough paper
megalith
5. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston
stain glass in a cathedral
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Paint Extender
6. A dominant idea or central theme
Rembrandt
Motif
Turpentine
Neoclassical
7. Symmetrical balance
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8. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Meyer Schapiro
Greenware
Design Elements
9. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Depth of Field
Equipment used in oil painting
Depression era Artists
Artists associated with Pointillism
10. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
binder
Rotunda
Elements of Art
Loom
11. 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
weft
Romanesque Cathedrals
vehicle
Water
12. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
analogous Colors
Dagyuerrotype
warp
'fat over lean'
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
Egg Tempera
Charcoal pen
Paint Extender
William Blake
14. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Design Elements
wedging the clay
Impasto
Principle of Art
15. Used in water printing
Acrylic paint
Romanesque
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
16. Fix
Used to protect pastel artwork
Grisaille
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Aperture
17. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Color field painting
Design Principles
Scoring
Depth of Field
18. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
nave
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Design Principles
Encaustic
19. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Gothic Cathedrals
Kinetic art
Brushed used in oil painting
Thomas Gainsborough
20. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Depth of Field
Tint
Used to protect pastel artwork
Wedging
21. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
analogous Colors
Motif
Armature
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
22. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
frisket
Dry Point
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Japanese art and buildings
23. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
the golden section (architecture)
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Encaustic
24. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Rabbit Skin Glue
Doric columns
Dry Point
three point perspective
25. 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
Lotus postition
Rodin
Photorealism
Forms of Charcoal
26. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Dry Point
Crenellation
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Ceramic glaze
27. Who made large portraits of friends?
David Hockney
wedging the clay
Design Principles
Stepped Pyramid Temples
28. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Rembrandt
Film Speed
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
29. 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
Adena Indian habitats
Appropriation Art
Joseph Beuys
Monochrome printing
30. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Batik
Safety glasses
Corinthian columns
Greenware
31. 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
Rococo
I.M. Pei
Tempera paint
Basic Elements of Sculpture
32. ...
Michelangelo
CMYK
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Aperture
33. Made out of Metal
Collage
Rococo
three point perspective
African Benin Sculputure
34. Considered one of the greatest printmakers of all time. Working with both woodcuts and copper engravings - he attained a level of detail that is virtually unsurpassed.
megalith
Albert Durer
Neoclassical
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
35. 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
Tempera paint
Encaustic
Color field painting
36. Huge stones
megalith
Designed the Barcelona chair
nave
Japanese art and buildings
37. 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
Frida Kahlo
Gouache
scumbling
constructed the Spiral Jetty
38. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Charcoal pen
Color field painting artists
Water
Stoneware properties
39. 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
the golden section (architecture)
Grisaille
wedging the clay
Photogravure
40. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
Hardbrick
The Renaissance
Cement
Monochrome printing
41. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Stoneware properties
Chiaroscuro
Pop artists
Rice paper
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
Kinetic art
Dry Point
Acrylic paint
43. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Paint Extender
Assemblage
Palace of Versaille
Describe the process of fresco
44. Continuous frieze
Depression era Artists
Column of Trajan
Forms of Charcoal
Linseed oil
45. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Social Murals
Wedging
Pop artists
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
46. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
Ionic columns
three point perspective
Greenware
Charcoal pen
47. An art and design principle concerned with the arrangement of one or more elements in a work of art so that they appear symmetrical (even) or asymmetrical (uneven) in design and proportion.
Rice paper
Tempera paint
balance
film speed
48. rayons resistant to what?
Water
frisket
Rotunda
Tapestry
49. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Van Der Zee
Used to protect pastel artwork
Shade
Romantic Era
50. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Environmental Art
Women artist of the 19th century
Gel medium
Georgian Style