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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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1. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
Rotunda
Stoneware
Egg Tempera
intaglio
2. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
Gel medium
Stoneware properties
Brown
Designed the Barcelona chair
3. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Dagyuerrotype
Stoneware properties
Artists associated with Pointillism
wedging the clay
4. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Barabara Krugel
Rabbit Skin Glue
stain glass in a cathedral
Yarn
5. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Ceramic glaze
Charcoal pen
Design Principles
6. In art - the perception of depth in nature as enhanced by haze in the atmosphere; how the appearance of objects is altered over distance by the effects of the air between the viewer and the object
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
vehicle
Environmental Art
intaglio
7. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Camera Obscura
Tint
Enameling
Esquisse
8. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Photogravure
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Tapestry
wedging the clay
9. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
wedging the clay
Rembrandt
Chiaroscuro
Depression era Artists
10. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Michelangelo
Esquisse
Gouache
11. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
analogous Colors
Appropriation Art
Tapestry
Acrylic paint
12. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
Stepped Pyramid Temples
nave
Pastel
The post - and - lintel system
13. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Pastel
Adena Indian habitats
Tenebrism
14. Origin is Mayan
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Equipment used in oil painting
William Blake
warp
15. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Design Principles
balance
Cement
16. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
Batik
Egg Tempera
Another term used for buddhist temple
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
17. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Greenware
Designed the Barcelona chair
Dome
Abstract Expressionist Artists
18. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Rotunda
Printmaking Techniques
Impasto
Palace of Versaille
19. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Charcoal pen
Pop artists
intaglio
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
20. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Charcoal pen
Color field painting artists
Rough paper
Wedging
21. 3X 5300 pixels
Scoring
Van Der Zee
Rococo
best resolution in a digital photo?
22. 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
Rodin
Rice paper
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Describe the process of fresco
23. 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)
Rembrandt
Column of Trajan
I.M. Pei
24. 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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25. Used in water printing
Motif
Rice paper
Loom
Acrylic paint
26. ...
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Croquis
Artist Proof
27. 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.
Film Speed
Crenellation
megalith
Photorealism
28. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
Romanesque
Mayan
Assemblage
gouache
29. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
nave
weft
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Charcoal pen
30. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Armature
William Blake
nave
Women artist of the 19th century
31. 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
Rough paper
Pastel
Social Realism
32. A school - style - or method of painting - adopted chiefly by 17th - century Spanish and Neapolitan painters - esp Caravaggio - characterized by large areas of dark colours - usually relieved with a shaft of ligh
Enameling
David Hockney
Tenebrism
Pop artists
33. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Jewelry tools
Camera Obscura
Barabara Krugel
Armature
34. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Baroque painting
Rotunda
Forms of Charcoal
Stoneware
35. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Rabbit Skin Glue
intaglio
balance
Loom
36. 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
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Michelangelo
Depth of Field
Another term used for buddhist temple
37. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Designed the Barcelona chair
Rabbit Skin Glue
African masks
Facing forward and stiff
38. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
nave
Cast concrete - modeling
Another term used for buddhist temple
Joseph Beuys
39. 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.
scumbling
Principle of Art
Stoneware properties
Crenellation
40. 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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41. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
binder
I.M. Pei
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Motif
42. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Albert Durer
Pop artists
African masks
Facing forward and stiff
43. A painting medium in which pigment is mixed with water - soluble glutinous materials such as size or egg yolk. Also called poster color - poster paint.
Tempera paint
dry - brushing
Neoclassical
Meyer Schapiro
44. To make a quick sketch
Croquis
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Grisaille
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
45. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Van Der Zee
Trompe - l'oil
Equipment used in oil painting
Cast concrete - modeling
46. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Scoring
Another term used for buddhist temple
Pumice
Linear perspective
47. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Appropriation Art
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Stoneware
Crenellation
48. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Sfumato
Hagia Sophia
Rococo
49. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
gesso
Tessera
Sulfur
50. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
'fat over lean'
Egg Tempera
Emphasis
Value