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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. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
Linear perspective
Design Principles
Motif
Corinthian columns
2. 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.
Islam art
three point perspective
Appropriation Art
Assemblage
3. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
weft
Isocephaly
Safety glasses
4. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Cast concrete - modeling
Printmaking Techniques
Describe the process of fresco
Tapestry
5. 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
Basquiat
'fat over lean'
Adena Indian habitats
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
6. 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.
Scoring
Frottage
Artists associated with Pointillism
Film Speed
7. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Van Der Zee
Croquis
The Renaissance
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
8. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Mayan
Social Realism
scumbling
Enameling
9. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Julio Gonzalez
Carving Tools
Hagia Sophia
Bas
10. 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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11. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Collage
Artists associated with Pointillism
Parchment
Depression art
12. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Dry Point
Elements of Art
The Renaissance
Stoneware properties
13. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Basquiat
Shutter Speed
Depth of Field
Tapestry
14. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
value
Chiaroscuro
Appropriation Art
Tenebrism
15. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Parchment
Gouache
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Lotus postition
16. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Michelangelo
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Printmaking Techniques
Pointillism
17. 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
Joseph Beuys
scumbling
Pop artists
Crenellation
18. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Corinthian columns
Artists associated with Pointillism
Armature
best resolution in a digital photo?
19. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Women artist of the 19th century
Frottage
Grisaille
Pointillism
20. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
three point perspective
Elements of Art
Degas and Cassett
Gel medium
21. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Julio Gonzalez
Doric columns
Paint Extender
Another term used for buddhist temple
22. To make a quick sketch
vehicle
Croquis
David Hockney
Rice paper
23. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Film Speed
Yarn
Equipment used in oil painting
24. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Photogravure
CMYK
warp
Japanese art and buildings
25. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Safety glasses
intaglio
Pop artists
Egg Tempera
26. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Principle of Art
Shutter Speed
wedging the clay
slip
27. Hard - dense firebrick generally used only in high - stress areas of kiln (floor - burner ports - flues - bagwall) and for corrosive firing processes (salt - soda - wood).
Rococo
Linseed oil
Hardbrick
Ceramic glaze
28. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
David Hockney
Hagia Sophia
Thomas Gainsborough
The post - and - lintel system
29. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
Sulfur
Lotus postition
Neoclassical
Julio Gonzalez
30. Symmetrical balance
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31. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
Wood and bronze
gesso
Enameling
binder
32. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Degas and Cassett
Charcoal pen
Design Principles
William Blake
33. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
The Renaissance
African Benin Sculputure
Romanesque Cathedrals
Rough paper
34. 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
Linseed oil
aquatint
Artist Proof
Rodin
35. The central area of a church
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
nave
Kinetic art
Impasto
36. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
value
Grisaille
Paint Extender
three point perspective
37. Who made large portraits of friends?
Monochrome printing
David Hockney
Home Insurance Building in NYC
best resolution in a digital photo?
38. 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
The post - and - lintel system
Pointillism
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
39. Painter and printmaker of Romantism.Held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity - and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. Works: The Song of Los - The Lovers Whirlwind - Ancient of Days
Tapestry
Used to protect pastel artwork
William Blake
Croquis
40. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Yarn
Dome
Batik
Enameling
41. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Loom
Depth of Field
Acrylic paint
Pointillism
42. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Chiaroscuro
balance
three point perspective
The post - and - lintel system
43. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
intermediate colors
Design Principles
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Forms of Charcoal
44. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
balance
Film Speed
Charcoal pen
Social Realism
45. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Gouache
African Benin Sculputure
Frida Kahlo
Ionic columns
46. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
Parchment
intaglio
Cement
Islam art
47. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Known Rodin prints
Design Elements
'fat over lean'
Hardbrick
48. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Trompe - l'oil
Georgian Style
intaglio
African masks
49. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
vehicle
Turpentine
Van Der Zee
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
50. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
gesso
Water
Rotunda
David Hockney