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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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1. Example of baroque architecture
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Palace of Versaille
Dry Point
Michelangelo
2. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Van Der Zee
Rough paper
Dome
slip
3. 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
Albert Durer
Depression art
Photorealism
the golden section (architecture)
4. 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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5. 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
Batik
Michelangelo
intermediate colors
Ceramic - Sgraffito
6. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Isocephaly
Tapestry
Turpentine
Stepped Pyramid Temples
7. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Tessera
aquatint
Mississippian
Crenellation
8. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
Design Principles
A black line
Shutter Speed
film speed
9. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Dome
Jewelry tools
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Paint Extender
10. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
'fat over lean'
A black line
Doric columns
Forms of Charcoal
11. AP on an art product means what
David Hockney
Artist Proof
Paint Extender
Stoneware properties
12. To mount a white and black photo - use...
intermediate colors
Scoring
Ceramic glaze
Rice paper
13. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
three point perspective
slip
Value
Stoneware properties
14. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Mayan
Julio Gonzalez
Scoring
megalith
15. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Barabara Krugel
Color field painting artists
Joseph Beuys
16. 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
Egg Tempera
Rodin
scumbling
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
17. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Rococo
Assemblage
Appropriation Art
Depression era Artists
18. 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
Design Elements
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Islam art
19. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Gothic Cathedrals
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Julio Gonzalez
Esquisse
20. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Sfumato
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Charcoal pen
21. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Dry Point
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Jewelry tools
Designed the Barcelona chair
22. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Collage
Frottage
Value
Describe the process of fresco
23. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
Rodin
The post - and - lintel system
Barabara Krugel
Baroque painting
24. 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.
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
balance
Depth of Field
The post - and - lintel system
25. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
Emphasis
Pastel
Linear perspective
Wedging
26. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
Lotus postition
African masks
Armature
Pastel
27. Who made large portraits of friends?
Yarn
David Hockney
Jewelry tools
gesso
28. 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
Social Realism
Basquiat
Camera Obscura
29. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
Kinetic art
Color field painting artists
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Barabara Krugel
30. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Equipment used in oil painting
Degas and Cassett
Rotunda
Palace of Versaille
31. Origin is Mayan
Meyer Schapiro
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Georgian Style
dry - brushing
32. rayons resistant to what?
megalith
Isocephaly
Water
Photogravure
33. What color do two secondary colors make?
Brown
Rembrandt
The post - and - lintel system
Rococo
34. 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.
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Photorealism
Artists associated with Pointillism
Encaustic
35. 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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36. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Depression art
Baroque painting
Romantic Era
Dagyuerrotype
37. 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
Camera Obscura
Romantic Era
Baroque painting
Rice paper
38. 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
Ceramic - Sgraffito
gesso
Embroidery
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
39. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Depth of Field
Safety glasses
Another term used for buddhist temple
40. Who said ' less is more'?
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Photorealism
Color field painting artists
Depth of Field
41. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
I.M. Pei
Croquis
Batik
Rembrandt
42. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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43. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Rococo
Social Realism
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Forms of Charcoal
44. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Titan's key works
Appropriation Art
Rice paper
Cement
45. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
Barabara Krugel
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Equipment used in oil painting
Mississippian
46. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
The Renaissance
Another term used for buddhist temple
Artists associated with Pointillism
dry - brushing
47. 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
Rococo
Corinthian columns
Yarn
Monochrome printing
48. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Cast concrete - modeling
Artist Proof
Printmaking Techniques
analogous Colors
49. 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
Romanesque Cathedrals
rhythm
Joseph Beuys
Japanese art and buildings
50. Most common oil in oil paints
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Tapestry
Tapestry
Linseed oil