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Praxis 2 Art
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1. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Equipment used in oil painting
Carving Tools
Tapestry
Thomas Gainsborough
2. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Brushed used in oil painting
Pointillism
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Appropriation Art
3. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Jewelry tools
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
aquatint
Meyer Schapiro
4. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Photogravure
Dry Point
Depth of Field
intermediate colors
5. Used her life experiences into her artwork - including her marriage - her miscarriages - and her numerous operations - works often are characterized by their stark portrayals of pain - combined elements of the classic religious Mexican tradition with
stain glass in a cathedral
African Benin Sculputure
Monochrome printing
Frida Kahlo
6. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
Gouache
film speed
Elements of Art
Romanesque
7. Woven wall hangings.
Emphasis
Ceramic glaze
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Tapestry
8. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
megalith
Principle of Art
Adena Indian habitats
Depression era Artists
9. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Column of Trajan
analogous Colors
Barabara Krugel
Basquiat
10. 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
Designed the Barcelona chair
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Egg Tempera
11. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Scoring
Embroidery
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Rococo
12. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Dome
binder
Home Insurance Building in NYC
value
13. 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
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Photogravure
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Tenebrism
14. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light. More sensitive (faster) films have higher ISO numbers and require less exposure in order to make a properly - exposed picture.
Film Speed
Rembrandt
Tapestry
Environmental Art
15. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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16. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Rabbit Skin Glue
Yarn
Brushed used in oil painting
Lotus postition
17. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Isocephaly
value
Adena Indian habitats
Wood and bronze
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
I.M. Pei
chromatic gray
nave
the golden section (architecture)
19. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Paint Extender
Crenellation
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
slip
20. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Tint
Mayan
value
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
21. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
nave
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Used to protect pastel artwork
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
22. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
The post - and - lintel system
Mayan
kinds of stones for stone carving
best resolution in a digital photo?
23. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Ceramic glaze
Design Elements
the golden section (architecture)
Mississippian
24. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
Turpentine
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Pastel
25. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
stain glass in a cathedral
Dry Point
three point perspective
Adena Indian habitats
26. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Facing forward and stiff
Assemblage
Designed the Barcelona chair
Elements of Art
27. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Armature
Brown
Sfumato
Describe the process of fresco
28. 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
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Cast concrete - modeling
three point perspective
Romanesque Cathedrals
29. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Facing forward and stiff
Romantic Era
Camera Obscura
Rotunda
30. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
binder
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Sfumato
Basquiat
31. 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
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
nave
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Column of Trajan
32. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
Lotus postition
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Loom
Jewelry tools
33. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
Kinetic art
Safety glasses
Albert Durer
Social Realism
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.
analogous Colors
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Photorealism
African masks
35. The laying of paint thickly
Brown
the golden section (architecture)
Impasto
stain glass in a cathedral
36. 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
Another term used for buddhist temple
Tempera paint
Column of Trajan
37. Is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions.
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38. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
weft
Shade
Michelangelo
Baroque painting
39. To make a quick sketch
Croquis
Japanese art and buildings
gesso
Cast concrete - modeling
40. Air - dry unfired clay
The post - and - lintel system
African Benin Sculputure
aquatint
Greenware
41. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Motif
Turpentine
Describe the process of fresco
Chiaroscuro
42. Pagoda
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Another term used for buddhist temple
Environmental Art
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
43. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Cast concrete - modeling
Emphasis
Ionic columns
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
44. Robert Smithson
Linear perspective
binder
Basic Elements of Sculpture
constructed the Spiral Jetty
45. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
Encaustic
Depression era Artists
Aperture
Scoring
46. Huge stones
Ionic columns
balance
megalith
Wedging
47. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Degas and Cassett
African masks
Cast concrete - modeling
Tempera paint
48. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Motif
Gouache
Rough paper
Dagyuerrotype
49. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Van Der Zee
Corinthian columns
Loom
50. What city had the first skyscraper?
Home Insurance Building in NYC
'fat over lean'
Artists associated with Pointillism
A black line