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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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1. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston
film speed
Egg Tempera
Van Der Zee
Abstract Expressionist Artists
2. Robert Smithson
Dome
Photogravure
Joseph Beuys
constructed the Spiral Jetty
3. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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4. A dominant idea or central theme
Facing forward and stiff
gesso
Motif
Doric columns
5. Fix
'fat over lean'
kinds of stones for stone carving
Used to protect pastel artwork
Trompe - l'oil
6. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Design Elements
Rodin
Kinetic art
Depression era Artists
7. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
frisket
Meyer Schapiro
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Esquisse
8. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Batik
Monochrome printing
Another term used for buddhist temple
scumbling
9. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Corinthian columns
Romanesque Cathedrals
Tenebrism
Van Der Zee
10. 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
Adena Indian habitats
Linear perspective
Michelangelo
Photorealism
11. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
intermediate colors
Rabbit Skin Glue
Stoneware
Principle of Art
12. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
balance
Emphasis
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Pop artists
13. 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.
Jewelry tools
Principle of Art
balance
Croquis
14. Made by Gustav Eiffel - Eiffel - marks the centennial celebration of the French Revolution. Liberty - iconic symbol of freedom and of the United States. French gave the US - statue of liberty
Column of Trajan
The Renaissance
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Impasto
15. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Brown
Shade
Romanesque Cathedrals
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
16. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
Assemblage
Lotus postition
I.M. Pei
Thomas Gainsborough
17. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Sulfur
Photorealism
Joseph Beuys
Rough paper
18. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
Corinthian columns
Depression era Artists
Value
rhythm
19. 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
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Thomas Gainsborough
Used to protect pastel artwork
Rodin
20. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Loom
Mayan
Enameling
gesso
21. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Paint Extender
Wood and bronze
Georgian Style
Romantic Era
22. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Paint Extender
Rabbit Skin Glue
Romantic Era
wedging the clay
23. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Embroidery
Tenebrism
Parchment
Tessera
24. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Elements of Art
Titan's key works
Isocephaly
Gothic Cathedrals
25. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Julio Gonzalez
Rodin
Hagia Sophia
Linear perspective
26. 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'.
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Kinetic art
slip
27. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Stoneware
Japanese art and buildings
A black line
28. 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.
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
dry - brushing
chromatic gray
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
29. Made out of Metal
Color field painting artists
African Benin Sculputure
frisket
Yarn
30. 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
Describe the process of fresco
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
wedging the clay
Tint
31. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Brushed used in oil painting
Linear perspective
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Abstract Expressionist Artists
32. To make a quick sketch
Tapestry
Meyer Schapiro
Greenware
Croquis
33. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
CMYK
aquatint
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Brown
34. The central area of a church
Loom
Enameling
nave
scumbling
35. 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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36. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Hagia Sophia
Isocephaly
Principle of Art
Photogravure
37. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Shade
rhythm
intaglio
Dome
38. Considered one of the greatest printmakers of all time. Working with both woodcuts and copper engravings - he attained a level of detail that is virtually unsurpassed.
Tempera paint
Ceramic glaze
Albert Durer
the golden section (architecture)
39. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Adena Indian habitats
Enameling
Printmaking Techniques
gouache
40. 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.
Environmental Art
Japanese art and buildings
Rococo
Photorealism
41. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Armature
Frida Kahlo
Rice paper
Rodin
42. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
The post - and - lintel system
intermediate colors
Frida Kahlo
43. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Water
intaglio
Appropriation Art
Palace of Versaille
44. 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.
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Printmaking Techniques
Equipment used in oil painting
Islam art
45. Gouge and chisel
Monochrome printing
Loom
Carving Tools
Frottage
46. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Wedging
Column of Trajan
Brushed used in oil painting
Gel medium
47. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?
Kinetic art
Film Speed
Camera Obscura
Sulfur
48. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Another term used for buddhist temple
kinds of stones for stone carving
Design Principles
49. What color do two secondary colors make?
Design Principles
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Brown
Croquis
50. Example of baroque architecture
Rodin
Photogravure
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Palace of Versaille