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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. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
Water
Linear perspective
The Renaissance
Assemblage
2. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
Corinthian columns
Photorealism
Batik
Romantic Era
3. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Aperture
Environmental Art
analogous Colors
wedging the clay
4. Most common oil in oil paints
Crenellation
Jewelry tools
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Linseed oil
5. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
dry - brushing
Enameling
Greenware
Frida Kahlo
6. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Shutter Speed
Crenellation
Dry Point
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
7. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
Bas
intermediate colors
Elements of Art
Palace of Versaille
8. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
binder
Rough paper
Wood and bronze
Ceramic glaze
9. Example of baroque architecture
Acrylic paint
slip
Gothic Cathedrals
Palace of Versaille
10. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
binder
Cast concrete - modeling
Motif
Parchment
11. 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
Social Realism
Photogravure
Social Murals
Pointillism
12. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
analogous Colors
Barabara Krugel
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
three point perspective
13. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
Impasto
Rabbit Skin Glue
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
warp
14. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Forms of Charcoal
Rabbit Skin Glue
Doric columns
aquatint
15. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
A black line
Design Principles
Romanesque
Monochrome printing
16. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Safety glasses
Pastel
17. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Jewelry tools
Printmaking Techniques
scumbling
Linear perspective
18. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Artists associated with Pointillism
Tint
Loom
Thomas Gainsborough
19. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Turpentine
Monochrome printing
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Shutter Speed
20. 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.
Forms of Charcoal
'fat over lean'
Albert Durer
Monochrome printing
21. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Rococo
Pumice
best resolution in a digital photo?
Camera Obscura
22. 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
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Shade
Known Rodin prints
Pastel
23. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Adena Indian habitats
Cast concrete - modeling
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
The post - and - lintel system
24. 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
Rotunda
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Romanesque Cathedrals
Romanesque
25. Who made large portraits of friends?
Frida Kahlo
Emphasis
David Hockney
Palace of Versaille
26. 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.
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Social Realism
Rembrandt
Photorealism
27. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Paint Extender
the golden section (architecture)
Emphasis
Used to protect pastel artwork
28. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Encaustic
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Stoneware
'fat over lean'
29. What city had the first skyscraper?
Ionic columns
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Home Insurance Building in NYC
gesso
30. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Georgian Style
kinds of stones for stone carving
Appropriation Art
31. 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
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
stain glass in a cathedral
scumbling
Frida Kahlo
32. Pagoda
Impasto
Dagyuerrotype
'fat over lean'
Another term used for buddhist temple
33. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
Charcoal pen
Michelangelo
Bas
gesso
34. 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.
Tempera paint
Batik
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Emphasis
35. Made out of Metal
Rembrandt
African Benin Sculputure
gouache
Meyer Schapiro
36. Who said ' less is more'?
nave
Kinetic art
Color field painting
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
37. 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.
Water
Film Speed
Rabbit Skin Glue
Photorealism
38. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Van Der Zee
Romanesque Cathedrals
Social Murals
Isocephaly
39. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
balance
Emphasis
Titan's key works
Pastel
40. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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41. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Julio Gonzalez
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Describe the process of fresco
Frida Kahlo
42. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
Color field painting artists
Trompe - l'oil
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Neoclassical
43. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
aquatint
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Shade
Photorealism
44. Rene Magritte
Rough paper
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Degas and Cassett
rhythm
45. 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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46. 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.
Islam art
Depression art
Color field painting artists
Albert Durer
47. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Stoneware properties
Rough paper
Elements of Art
Croquis
48. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Romanesque
balance
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Yarn
49. A ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both. Ancient Ea ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the su
Jewelry tools
Stoneware
Gel medium
the golden section (architecture)
50. 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
Tapestry
Rodin
Linear perspective
Albert Durer