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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Ionic columns
Frottage
Dome
Scoring
2. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
Bas
the golden section (architecture)
The post - and - lintel system
wedging the clay
3. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
The Renaissance
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Column of Trajan
4. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
Designed the Barcelona chair
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
slip
weft
5. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Design Elements
Tenebrism
Joseph Beuys
Scoring
6. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
value
Color field painting
Value
gesso
7. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
Islam art
modeling
Color field painting
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
8. Woven wall hangings.
Frottage
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Loom
Tapestry
9. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Van Der Zee
Gel medium
value
10. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
three point perspective
Water
Tessera
Embroidery
11. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Baroque painting
frisket
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Women artist of the 19th century
12. Who said ' less is more'?
Tapestry
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Meyer Schapiro
Romanesque Cathedrals
13. Fix
Baroque painting
Used to protect pastel artwork
Environmental Art
Barabara Krugel
14. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
frisket
Monochrome printing
Michelangelo
Motif
15. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
megalith
A black line
Baroque painting
Cast concrete - modeling
16. 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
value
Design Principles
Aperture
17. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Facing forward and stiff
Michelangelo
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Romanesque
18. 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'.
wedging the clay
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Dagyuerrotype
African masks
19. 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
Stoneware
Acrylic paint
Embroidery
20. 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.
Fire clay
The post - and - lintel system
dry - brushing
African Benin Sculputure
21. 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
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
warp
Rodin
Stoneware properties
22. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Rococo
Georgian Style
I.M. Pei
megalith
23. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Cement
value
Degas and Cassett
'fat over lean'
24. Used in water printing
Acrylic paint
Rice paper
Design Principles
Embroidery
25. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Neoclassical
Design Principles
Camera Obscura
Jewelry tools
26. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Linseed oil
Gouache
Rotunda
Acrylic paint
27. Example of baroque architecture
Film Speed
Palace of Versaille
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Cast concrete - modeling
28. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
Tempera paint
Armature
warp
CMYK
29. 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
Facing forward and stiff
Hardbrick
balance
Frida Kahlo
30. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Dry Point
megalith
Romanesque
Design Principles
31. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
kinds of stones for stone carving
Tapestry
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Photorealism
32. 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
analogous Colors
Frottage
vehicle
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
33. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
Japanese art and buildings
Color field painting artists
Loom
Artist Proof
34. 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
William Blake
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Rococo
Basic Elements of Sculpture
35. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Crenellation
Romanesque Cathedrals
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Dagyuerrotype
36. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
Tapestry
Islam art
Turpentine
Sulfur
37. 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
African Benin Sculputure
Tapestry
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Japanese art and buildings
38. Rene Magritte
Another term used for buddhist temple
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Elements of Art
three point perspective
39. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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40. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Hardbrick
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
wedging the clay
41. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Water
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Assemblage
Hardbrick
42. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
Shutter Speed
Environmental Art
Linear perspective
Depression era Artists
43. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
Ceramic glaze
Kinetic art
Rembrandt
Gothic Cathedrals
44. The central area of a church
Degas and Cassett
Column of Trajan
Known Rodin prints
nave
45. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Collage
David Hockney
Hardbrick
Scoring
46. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Artist Proof
Meyer Schapiro
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Social Murals
47. 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).
Pumice
The post - and - lintel system
Hardbrick
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
48. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Van Der Zee
Another term used for buddhist temple
slip
kinds of stones for stone carving
49. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Yarn
Grisaille
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Gel medium
50. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Thomas Gainsborough
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Batik
Used to protect pastel artwork