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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?






2. A dominant idea or central theme






3. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?






4. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?






5. Continuous frieze






6. 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






7. Monticello was build in what architectual style?






8. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.






9. Rene Magritte






10. Made out of Metal






11. What goes horizontal across a loom?






12. Is a circle - shaped opening in a lens (a hole - really) through which light passes to strike the film. The size of the aperture is expressed as an f - number - like f/8 or f/11.






13. Who said ' less is more'?






14. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork






15. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.






16. The second oldest medium after encaustic. It was used by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks and perfected by the icon painters during the last 100 years of the old Byzantine Empire (400 AD-1202 AD).






17. Origin is Mayan






18. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.






19. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint






20. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.






21. Italian term meaning smoke - describing a very delicate gradation of light and shade in the modeling of figures; often ascribed to Da Vinci's work.






22. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile






23. Symmetrical balance


24. A painting medium in which pigment is mixed with water - soluble glutinous materials such as size or egg yolk. Also called poster color - poster paint.






25. 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'.






26. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque






27. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?






28. 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






29. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans






30. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer






31. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space






32. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels






33. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.






34. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points






35. What city had the first skyscraper?






36. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.






37. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein






38. Huge stones






39. 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






40. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome






41. 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






42. Is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions.


43. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?






44. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.






45. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.






46. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton






47. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.






48. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world






49. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio






50. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)






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