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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. What city had the first skyscraper?
Embroidery
Joseph Beuys
Tapestry
Home Insurance Building in NYC
2. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Turpentine
megalith
Tenebrism
Depression art
3. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Rice paper
wedging the clay
Design Elements
4. Symmetrical balance
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5. 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.
Bas
Frottage
analogous Colors
Home Insurance Building in NYC
6. Rene Magritte
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Ceramic glaze
Isocephaly
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
7. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
dry - brushing
CMYK
vehicle
Georgian Style
8. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
Describe the process of fresco
Mississippian
chromatic gray
Julio Gonzalez
9. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
Printmaking Techniques
Facing forward and stiff
gesso
Tapestry
10. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Color field painting artists
Depression art
Enameling
Jewelry tools
11. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
vehicle
Social Realism
Pumice
Basic Elements of Sculpture
12. What color do two secondary colors make?
Turpentine
Brown
Monochrome printing
Depression era Artists
13. 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
Michelangelo
analogous Colors
I.M. Pei
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
14. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Ceramic glaze
Romanesque Cathedrals
Tenebrism
Monochrome printing
15. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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16. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Printmaking Techniques
Encaustic
film speed
analogous Colors
17. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
Armature
Egg Tempera
Wood and bronze
Ceramic - Sgraffito
18. 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.
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
David Hockney
Islam art
Forms of Charcoal
19. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Bas
Wood and bronze
'fat over lean'
CMYK
20. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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21. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Fire clay
kinds of stones for stone carving
the golden section (architecture)
Brushed used in oil painting
22. 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
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Rough paper
23. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
Brushed used in oil painting
modeling
Croquis
Rembrandt
24. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
Fire clay
Gothic Cathedrals
wedging the clay
Ceramic - Sgraffito
25. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
Brown
Trompe - l'oil
Stoneware properties
Enameling
26. In oil painting - the technique of brushing one layer of paint on top of another in a way that reveals some of the under color.
Rough paper
Pop artists
scumbling
Used to protect pastel artwork
27. The central area of a church
gouache
Aperture
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
nave
28. Known for stone. The term was invented by 19th century art historians - especially for Romanesque architecture - which retained many basic features of Roman architectural style - most notably round - headed arches - but also barrel vaults - apses - a
three point perspective
Romanesque
value
African Benin Sculputure
29. Robert Smithson
Shutter Speed
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Known Rodin prints
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
30. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Parchment
Baroque painting
value
Design Principles
31. 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
Doric columns
A black line
Romantic Era
Baroque painting
32. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Degas and Cassett
Cement
Islam art
33. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Armature
Thomas Gainsborough
Water
Adena Indian habitats
34. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Cast concrete - modeling
Tint
Value
Environmental Art
35. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Acrylic paint
African Benin Sculputure
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Van Der Zee
36. A dominant idea or central theme
Motif
Describe the process of fresco
gesso
aquatint
37. What is another work for low relief?
Georgian Style
I.M. Pei
A black line
Bas
38. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Adena Indian habitats
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Linear perspective
Appropriation Art
39. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Photorealism
value
Equipment used in oil painting
frisket
40. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Scoring
Camera Obscura
Designed the Barcelona chair
Principle of Art
41. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Dry Point
Sfumato
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Enameling
42. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Pop artists
Value
Joseph Beuys
Embroidery
43. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
nave
Depth of Field
Safety glasses
Tapestry
44. 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
Wedging
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Rembrandt
Romanesque Cathedrals
45. 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
Mayan
gouache
Meyer Schapiro
46. 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.
Albert Durer
Tint
William Blake
Appropriation Art
47. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Rembrandt
three point perspective
kinds of stones for stone carving
Design Principles
48. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
Rough paper
Camera Obscura
Pastel
Color field painting artists
49. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
The Renaissance
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Pastel
50. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Linear perspective
Rembrandt
Tapestry
Tint