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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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1. Who said ' less is more'?
Principle of Art
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Neoclassical
Gouache
2. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Thomas Gainsborough
Pop artists
Esquisse
Used to protect pastel artwork
3. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Isocephaly
Islam art
Lotus postition
4. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Camera Obscura
weft
Gothic Cathedrals
African masks
5. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Batik
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Rabbit Skin Glue
Parchment
6. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Shutter Speed
megalith
Artists associated with Pointillism
analogous Colors
7. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Grisaille
intermediate colors
Cast concrete - modeling
Turpentine
8. 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.
Van Der Zee
Rabbit Skin Glue
Corinthian columns
Islam art
9. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Equipment used in oil painting
Women artist of the 19th century
Cement
Tessera
10. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Albert Durer
Basic Elements of Sculpture
balance
11. Rene Magritte
Elements of Art
Loom
Used to protect pastel artwork
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
12. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
Another term used for buddhist temple
stain glass in a cathedral
Printmaking Techniques
Tenebrism
13. 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.
balance
Film Speed
Facing forward and stiff
best resolution in a digital photo?
14. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Dagyuerrotype
Emphasis
Elements of Art
Brown
15. Meaning to rub a crayon or other tool onto paper or other material - which is placed onto a textured surface - in order to create the texture of that surface on the paper.
Frottage
Wood and bronze
Film Speed
Gel medium
16. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Stoneware
Enameling
Meyer Schapiro
Dome
17. Fix
gesso
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Armature
Used to protect pastel artwork
18. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
megalith
William Blake
Bas
Brushed used in oil painting
19. A form of painting in which tiny dots of primary - colors are used to generate secondary colors. It is very similar to Divisionism - except that where Divisionism is concerned with color theory - Pointillism is more focused on the specific style of b
Artists associated with Pointillism
Encaustic
Pointillism
intermediate colors
20. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Depression art
Dome
Adena Indian habitats
Turpentine
21. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Scoring
William Blake
Sulfur
Crenellation
22. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Adena Indian habitats
Forms of Charcoal
Michelangelo
23. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Carving Tools
Degas and Cassett
'fat over lean'
A black line
24. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Artists associated with Pointillism
Dry Point
Esquisse
Thomas Gainsborough
25. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Meyer Schapiro
Wood and bronze
Rough paper
Hardbrick
26. Gray made by mixing complements
Barabara Krugel
Hardbrick
chromatic gray
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
27. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
intaglio
vehicle
Rough paper
Dry Point
28. 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
Tenebrism
Sfumato
Tint
Georgian Style
29. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Color field painting
scumbling
Elements of Art
Chiaroscuro
30. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Safety glasses
Dagyuerrotype
modeling
Social Murals
31. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Printmaking Techniques
Color field painting
Egg Tempera
Michelangelo
32. 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
Michelangelo
Baroque painting
Crenellation
Rotunda
33. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Rembrandt
Linear perspective
Collage
Known Rodin prints
34. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Designed the Barcelona chair
Scoring
Romanesque
dry - brushing
35. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Ionic columns
Turpentine
Impasto
Gothic Cathedrals
36. Air - dry unfired clay
Greenware
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Degas and Cassett
Van Der Zee
37. Harlem Renaissance artist known for etchings - was a German painter - printmaker - and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition in the first half of the 20th century. Her empathy for the less fortunate
Forms of Charcoal
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Hardbrick
Ceramic - Sgraffito
38. 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
weft
Rococo
Wedging
Aperture
39. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Doric columns
nave
Bas
Color field painting artists
40. 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.
wedging the clay
Van Der Zee
Water
Albert Durer
41. To make a quick sketch
Forms of Charcoal
Gel medium
Hardbrick
Croquis
42. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Rodin
Equipment used in oil painting
Design Elements
Turpentine
43. Most common oil in oil paints
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Linseed oil
A black line
film speed
44. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Rice paper
analogous Colors
wedging the clay
45. The genre of painting based on using the camera and photographs to gather information and then from this information - creating a painting that appears to be very realistic like a photograph.
Photorealism
best resolution in a digital photo?
Adena Indian habitats
Parchment
46. The laying of paint thickly
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
The Renaissance
Impasto
Women artist of the 19th century
47. A painting technique in which - as the name suggests - a little bit of paint is put on a dry brush. When applied - it produces a broken - scratchy effect.
dry - brushing
Japanese art and buildings
Describe the process of fresco
Hardbrick
48. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
Fire clay
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Pastel
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
49. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
Column of Trajan
frisket
CMYK
megalith
50. 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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