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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Cement
Used to protect pastel artwork
Stoneware
scumbling
2. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Forms of Charcoal
gesso
Trompe - l'oil
Van Der Zee
3. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Pastel
best resolution in a digital photo?
Social Realism
4. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Linear perspective
Artist Proof
Mayan
5. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Yarn
Collage
Thomas Gainsborough
Stoneware
6. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Dry Point
Stoneware properties
Rotunda
Encaustic
7. Pagoda
Another term used for buddhist temple
Stoneware
Camera Obscura
David Hockney
8. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston
Degas and Cassett
A black line
Collage
Abstract Expressionist Artists
9. Gray made by mixing complements
Titan's key works
David Hockney
Hagia Sophia
chromatic gray
10. Air - dry unfired clay
Chiaroscuro
Tenebrism
Dagyuerrotype
Greenware
11. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Forms of Charcoal
Encaustic
Water
Elements of Art
12. 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).
Hardbrick
binder
Turpentine
Basquiat
13. The laying of paint thickly
Impasto
Loom
Albert Durer
Linear perspective
14. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
wedging the clay
weft
Equipment used in oil painting
15. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
African Benin Sculputure
Emphasis
Stoneware
Describe the process of fresco
16. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Rabbit Skin Glue
Known Rodin prints
Armature
analogous Colors
17. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Rabbit Skin Glue
Julio Gonzalez
Hagia Sophia
Collage
18. The central area of a church
weft
nave
Egg Tempera
intaglio
19. Who said ' less is more'?
Crenellation
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Tapestry
Value
20. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
film speed
Croquis
weft
Elements of Art
21. Is a circle - shaped opening in a lens (a hole - really) through which light passes to strike the film. The size of the aperture is expressed as an f - number - like f/8 or f/11.
Aperture
Armature
Dry Point
Esquisse
22. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Frida Kahlo
value
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Sulfur
23. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Wood and bronze
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Frottage
Rodin
24. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Wedging
Loom
Tessera
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
25. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Japanese art and buildings
The Renaissance
Home Insurance Building in NYC
26. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
scumbling
Trompe - l'oil
Rabbit Skin Glue
Gel medium
27. What city had the first skyscraper?
Romanesque Cathedrals
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Color field painting
28. 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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29. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Turpentine
Parchment
Isocephaly
Forms of Charcoal
30. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
Rodin
kinds of stones for stone carving
Georgian Style
Adena Indian habitats
31. Continuous frieze
Rembrandt
Stoneware
Column of Trajan
Impasto
32. 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.
Depth of Field
Chiaroscuro
intaglio
Film Speed
33. 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.
Titan's key works
balance
Depression art
Albert Durer
34. Used in water printing
Acrylic paint
Shade
Facing forward and stiff
Monochrome printing
35. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
David Hockney
film speed
Armature
Hardbrick
36. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Equipment used in oil painting
Describe the process of fresco
Dagyuerrotype
Frottage
37. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Safety glasses
Appropriation Art
Isocephaly
Hardbrick
38. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Crenellation
Linear perspective
Romantic Era
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
39. 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
Japanese art and buildings
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Hagia Sophia
40. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Social Murals
Artists associated with Pointillism
Brown
Home Insurance Building in NYC
41. 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.
Islam art
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Linear perspective
42. 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.
Basic Elements of Sculpture
scumbling
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
43. The principle in oil painting that suggests each layer of paint should contain more oil than the one beneath. Awareness of this concept helps ensure permanence.
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44. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Gothic Cathedrals
Elements of Art
Japanese art and buildings
Meyer Schapiro
45. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
intaglio
Ionic columns
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Romanesque
46. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Photogravure
Pop artists
Equipment used in oil painting
Brushed used in oil painting
47. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Elements of Art
Japanese art and buildings
Carving Tools
Acrylic paint
48. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Assemblage
Van Der Zee
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Dome
49. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Yarn
Romanesque Cathedrals
Wedging
Rodin
50. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Fire clay
Dry Point
Sulfur