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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Example of baroque architecture
Egg Tempera
Aperture
three point perspective
Palace of Versaille
2. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Crenellation
Value
Principle of Art
Wedging
3. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Encaustic
Photogravure
rhythm
Paint Extender
4. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
Turpentine
Another term used for buddhist temple
Hagia Sophia
Shade
5. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Armature
Forms of Charcoal
William Blake
Esquisse
6. 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
Photorealism
Charcoal pen
intaglio
7. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Tapestry
weft
Wood and bronze
frisket
8. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Brown
Artists associated with Pointillism
Jewelry tools
Croquis
9. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
The Renaissance
Rodin
Loom
analogous Colors
10. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Elements of Art
scumbling
Safety glasses
Photorealism
11. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Tapestry
Turpentine
Enameling
Monochrome printing
12. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
modeling
Emphasis
Georgian Style
Julio Gonzalez
13. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Croquis
Camera Obscura
Depression art
Hardbrick
14. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Artists associated with Pointillism
Thomas Gainsborough
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Depression art
15. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Motif
slip
Adena Indian habitats
Julio Gonzalez
16. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Equipment used in oil painting
Tessera
Pointillism
17. 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
Women artist of the 19th century
Grisaille
Romanesque Cathedrals
Basquiat
18. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
Enameling
Impasto
frisket
Grisaille
19. Rocks - pebbles etc - 'a hole can it self have as much shape meaning as a solid mass. The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation. The hole connects one side to the other - making it immediately more three - dimensional. A hole can i
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Acrylic paint
Charcoal pen
20. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Turpentine
Gouache
Dome
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
21. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
balance
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Principle of Art
Loom
22. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
Parchment
Romanesque
Designed the Barcelona chair
Stoneware properties
23. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
Another term used for buddhist temple
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Enameling
24. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Shade
Photogravure
Basic Elements of Sculpture
three point perspective
25. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
The Renaissance
Color field painting artists
Rembrandt
kinds of stones for stone carving
26. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Stoneware properties
Doric columns
Forms of Charcoal
Wood and bronze
27. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Isocephaly
David Hockney
Rough paper
28. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Tenebrism
value
Tint
Esquisse
29. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Doric columns
weft
the golden section (architecture)
Romantic Era
30. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Batik
Ionic columns
nave
Frottage
31. 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
Motif
Dagyuerrotype
Appropriation Art
Michelangelo
32. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Facing forward and stiff
Dagyuerrotype
Social Murals
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
33. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Chiaroscuro
Linear perspective
Shutter Speed
Printmaking Techniques
34. Known for stone. The term was invented by 19th century art historians - especially for Romanesque architecture - which retained many basic features of Roman architectural style - most notably round - headed arches - but also barrel vaults - apses - a
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Romanesque
Gothic Cathedrals
Jewelry tools
35. The central area of a church
nave
Japanese art and buildings
Stoneware properties
Pointillism
36. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
Rice paper
rhythm
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Stoneware
37. Pagoda
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Another term used for buddhist temple
Appropriation Art
Ceramic - Sgraffito
38. 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
Ionic columns
three point perspective
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
39. 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.
Linear perspective
Depression art
Esquisse
Aperture
40. AP on an art product means what
Tessera
Artist Proof
Tapestry
Column of Trajan
41. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Julio Gonzalez
Neoclassical
Water
Japanese art and buildings
42. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
Emphasis
Safety glasses
binder
Lotus postition
43. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
Thomas Gainsborough
Isocephaly
Ionic columns
The Renaissance
44. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Social Realism
Shade
Palace of Versaille
Barabara Krugel
45. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
Frida Kahlo
Brown
kinds of stones for stone carving
Hagia Sophia
46. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Mayan
weft
constructed the Spiral Jetty
47. 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.
Tapestry
Depression art
Islam art
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
48. What goes horizontal across a loom?
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Michelangelo
best resolution in a digital photo?
Yarn
49. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Rococo
Gel medium
The post - and - lintel system
Tessera
50. 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
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Principle of Art
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Artist Proof