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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. 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
analogous Colors
Used to protect pastel artwork
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Joseph Beuys
2. 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.
three point perspective
Palace of Versaille
Women artist of the 19th century
balance
3. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Enameling
Dry Point
Aperture
Rodin
4. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Georgian Style
Assemblage
Color field painting
Basic Elements of Sculpture
5. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Printmaking Techniques
Known Rodin prints
rhythm
Batik
6. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
the golden section (architecture)
Color field painting artists
Safety glasses
Ionic columns
7. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
African masks
warp
Linear perspective
Michelangelo
8. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Tapestry
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Brown
Shade
9. Made out of Metal
best resolution in a digital photo?
African Benin Sculputure
Embroidery
Frottage
10. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
Dry Point
warp
The Renaissance
Jewelry tools
11. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Croquis
Isocephaly
Parchment
Rabbit Skin Glue
12. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Esquisse
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Safety glasses
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
13. 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
CMYK
Grisaille
Water
14. 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
Value
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Rococo
Georgian Style
15. Continuous frieze
Gothic Cathedrals
Parchment
Column of Trajan
Croquis
16. Air - dry unfired clay
Social Realism
the golden section (architecture)
Greenware
Fire clay
17. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
weft
Camera Obscura
analogous Colors
Julio Gonzalez
18. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Yarn
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Isocephaly
19. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
intaglio
Isocephaly
Carving Tools
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
20. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
kinds of stones for stone carving
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
vehicle
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
21. 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
value
film speed
modeling
Michelangelo
22. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
African masks
Chiaroscuro
Batik
Palace of Versaille
23. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
Facing forward and stiff
binder
Chiaroscuro
the golden section (architecture)
24. Example of baroque architecture
Trompe - l'oil
Camera Obscura
Palace of Versaille
Julio Gonzalez
25. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
gouache
gesso
Fire clay
CMYK
26. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
megalith
dry - brushing
Shutter Speed
Meyer Schapiro
27. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Ceramic - Sgraffito
The Renaissance
Frida Kahlo
28. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
kinds of stones for stone carving
Depth of Field
Rice paper
Motif
29. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Mississippian
Assemblage
Social Murals
Thomas Gainsborough
30. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Wood and bronze
dry - brushing
Gel medium
Rembrandt
31. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
gesso
Thomas Gainsborough
modeling
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
32. 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
wedging the clay
slip
Romanesque Cathedrals
Cast concrete - modeling
33. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
Mississippian
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Social Realism
Depression era Artists
34. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Assemblage
Chiaroscuro
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Rodin
35. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Collage
gesso
CMYK
Rotunda
36. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
chromatic gray
Photorealism
'fat over lean'
Paint Extender
37. What city had the first skyscraper?
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Baroque painting
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
38. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
Van Der Zee
Mississippian
wedging the clay
dry - brushing
39. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Social Murals
Cement
'fat over lean'
kinds of stones for stone carving
40. Pagoda
Another term used for buddhist temple
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Cement
Japanese art and buildings
41. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Hagia Sophia
Facing forward and stiff
Frida Kahlo
Isocephaly
42. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
Titan's key works
intermediate colors
Wedging
film speed
43. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Yarn
Women artist of the 19th century
Meyer Schapiro
Cement
44. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Pumice
Dry Point
Gothic Cathedrals
Rough paper
45. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Rodin
Barabara Krugel
Cast concrete - modeling
megalith
46. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Dry Point
Gouache
Yarn
Islam art
47. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Barabara Krugel
Aperture
intermediate colors
Adena Indian habitats
48. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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49. 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
Egg Tempera
The post - and - lintel system
Acrylic paint
50. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Shade
Crenellation
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Carving Tools