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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
Chiaroscuro
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Stoneware properties
Dagyuerrotype
2. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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3. 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
Titan's key works
Forms of Charcoal
Pointillism
intaglio
4. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Batik
Principle of Art
the golden section (architecture)
Motif
5. 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
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Principle of Art
Titan's key works
Frida Kahlo
6. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
weft
Sfumato
7. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
I.M. Pei
Grisaille
Stoneware properties
Gothic Cathedrals
8. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Michelangelo
Artist Proof
Dagyuerrotype
Georgian Style
9. 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
Yarn
Tempera paint
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Column of Trajan
10. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
megalith
film speed
Stoneware properties
Hagia Sophia
11. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Gouache
Wedging
Meyer Schapiro
aquatint
12. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Tempera paint
Degas and Cassett
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
scumbling
13. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Women artist of the 19th century
Environmental Art
Frottage
14. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
gesso
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Photorealism
Enameling
15. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
Known Rodin prints
gouache
Wedging
Artist Proof
16. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Rough paper
Shade
Value
rhythm
17. Example of baroque architecture
Palace of Versaille
Assemblage
analogous Colors
Artist Proof
18. 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)
Photogravure
Design Principles
Pumice
19. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
Pastel
A black line
gesso
Titan's key works
20. 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
Artist Proof
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Tenebrism
Rough paper
21. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Kinetic art
Stoneware
Frottage
Dagyuerrotype
22. AP on an art product means what
Rabbit Skin Glue
Assemblage
Artist Proof
Lotus postition
23. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
Photorealism
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Neoclassical
modeling
24. The laying of paint thickly
Impasto
A black line
Romanesque Cathedrals
Enameling
25. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
Doric columns
analogous Colors
frisket
Environmental Art
26. Symmetrical balance
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27. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Loom
Rice paper
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Social Realism
28. Made out of Metal
Linseed oil
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
African Benin Sculputure
Appropriation Art
29. 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.
The Renaissance
Scoring
Aperture
frisket
30. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
Known Rodin prints
Film Speed
kinds of stones for stone carving
Rabbit Skin Glue
31. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Brushed used in oil painting
Bas
Shade
Paint Extender
32. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
Enameling
Japanese art and buildings
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
A black line
33. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
weft
Dome
Depth of Field
Yarn
34. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
Barabara Krugel
Sulfur
three point perspective
Adena Indian habitats
35. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Romantic Era
Photogravure
Armature
Color field painting artists
36. Origin is Mayan
Dagyuerrotype
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Loom
slip
37. 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.
Mississippian
Frottage
Frida Kahlo
Barabara Krugel
38. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Loom
Color field painting
Rabbit Skin Glue
Egg Tempera
39. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
Printmaking Techniques
vehicle
Monochrome printing
slip
40. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Gothic Cathedrals
Armature
Bas
Michelangelo
41. 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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42. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Dome
Tint
Depression art
Encaustic
43. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Facing forward and stiff
Gouache
Fire clay
44. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Cement
Chiaroscuro
Known Rodin prints
I.M. Pei
45. 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.
Assemblage
Romantic Era
Tempera paint
weft
46. 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
Acrylic paint
Basquiat
Hagia Sophia
Depression era Artists
47. Who made large portraits of friends?
Dagyuerrotype
David Hockney
Shutter Speed
Monochrome printing
48. Pagoda
Linseed oil
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Another term used for buddhist temple
49. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Albert Durer
gouache
Meyer Schapiro
value
50. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Barabara Krugel
scumbling
Dome
Tint