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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Made out of Metal
weft
Social Realism
Brown
African Benin Sculputure
2. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Tenebrism
Depression era Artists
Van Der Zee
Dome
3. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Bas
wedging the clay
Equipment used in oil painting
slip
4. A form of painting in which tiny dots of primary - colors are used to generate secondary colors. It is very similar to Divisionism - except that where Divisionism is concerned with color theory - Pointillism is more focused on the specific style of b
rhythm
Pointillism
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
nave
5. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
gesso
Tessera
Printmaking Techniques
Pastel
6. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
Pastel
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Stoneware
Principle of Art
7. Woven wall hangings.
Wedging
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Tapestry
Equipment used in oil painting
8. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
chromatic gray
Paint Extender
African masks
Romanesque
9. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Rice paper
Scoring
Environmental Art
10. Who said ' less is more'?
Brown
Trompe - l'oil
Romanesque Cathedrals
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
11. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Tapestry
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Parchment
Equipment used in oil painting
12. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
rhythm
chromatic gray
Tapestry
Jewelry tools
13. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Chiaroscuro
Rough paper
Van Der Zee
Film Speed
14. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
modeling
Safety glasses
Titan's key works
Stoneware properties
15. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Degas and Cassett
Rococo
analogous Colors
Collage
16. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Islam art
Ceramic glaze
Cast concrete - modeling
dry - brushing
17. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston
Paint Extender
Carving Tools
best resolution in a digital photo?
Abstract Expressionist Artists
18. Origin is Mayan
Stoneware properties
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Tapestry
19. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Another term used for buddhist temple
Cement
Tessera
Design Principles
20. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
warp
Mayan
chromatic gray
Brown
21. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Grisaille
Camera Obscura
Bas
modeling
22. Continuous frieze
Linseed oil
gouache
Artist Proof
Column of Trajan
23. 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).
Wood and bronze
African masks
Appropriation Art
Egg Tempera
24. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
The post - and - lintel system
Depth of Field
25. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Croquis
Social Realism
Impasto
Artists associated with Pointillism
26. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Chiaroscuro
Designed the Barcelona chair
Rabbit Skin Glue
27. Symmetrical balance
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28. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Thomas Gainsborough
Motif
analogous Colors
three point perspective
29. 3X 5300 pixels
Color field painting
best resolution in a digital photo?
Doric columns
Artists associated with Pointillism
30. Possin was a French painter in the classical style.Themes of tragedy and death are prevalent in Poussin's work.[13] Et in Arcadia ego - a subject he painted twice (second version is seen at right) - exemplifies his cerebral approach. In this composit
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31. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
analogous Colors
Meyer Schapiro
Social Murals
Armature
32. 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
Tessera
Mayan
Basquiat
Julio Gonzalez
33. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Adena Indian habitats
Photogravure
Cast concrete - modeling
The post - and - lintel system
34. 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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35. Robert Smithson
Parchment
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Ceramic - Sgraffito
wedging the clay
36. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
Collage
film speed
Another term used for buddhist temple
Michelangelo
37. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Neoclassical
Encaustic
Gel medium
Doric columns
38. 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.
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
the golden section (architecture)
Romanesque Cathedrals
Tempera paint
39. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
warp
African masks
Cement
Doric columns
40. 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
Georgian Style
Corinthian columns
Romanesque
Elements of Art
41. 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.
rhythm
Monochrome printing
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
dry - brushing
42. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Environmental Art
Gel medium
value
Crenellation
43. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Safety glasses
Baroque painting
Charcoal pen
Dagyuerrotype
44. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
Depression era Artists
nave
Embroidery
wedging the clay
45. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Enameling
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Women artist of the 19th century
Carving Tools
46. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
Safety glasses
Isocephaly
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Turpentine
47. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Sulfur
Gothic Cathedrals
Neoclassical
Photogravure
48. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Pumice
Titan's key works
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Gel medium
49. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Parchment
Carving Tools
Baroque painting
Film Speed
50. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
Pastel
Appropriation Art
Lotus postition
Equipment used in oil painting