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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. Harlem Renaissance artist known for etchings - was a German painter - printmaker - and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition in the first half of the 20th century. Her empathy for the less fortunate
Crenellation
The Renaissance
Appropriation Art
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
2. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Lotus postition
Ceramic glaze
Social Realism
Home Insurance Building in NYC
3. Used in water printing
The post - and - lintel system
Acrylic paint
Stoneware
Barabara Krugel
4. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Designed the Barcelona chair
Sfumato
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
5. The principle in oil painting that suggests each layer of paint should contain more oil than the one beneath. Awareness of this concept helps ensure permanence.
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6. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
aquatint
Stoneware properties
Ionic columns
7. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Pop artists
Scoring
Ionic columns
Tint
8. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Hardbrick
CMYK
Safety glasses
9. rayons resistant to what?
nave
Water
analogous Colors
kinds of stones for stone carving
10. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
modeling
Pastel
Stoneware properties
Embroidery
11. 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.
William Blake
Jewelry tools
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Sfumato
12. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
dry - brushing
binder
Thomas Gainsborough
Doric columns
13. Origin is Mayan
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Rembrandt
Color field painting artists
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
14. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Depth of Field
Esquisse
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
15. Huge stones
megalith
Enameling
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Rotunda
16. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Greenware
Stoneware
Hardbrick
Rodin
17. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
film speed
Describe the process of fresco
Loom
Frida Kahlo
18. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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19. 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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20. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
Romantic Era
Islam art
Rotunda
weft
21. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
David Hockney
Chiaroscuro
Loom
Wedging
22. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?
Romanesque
Sulfur
Designed the Barcelona chair
Elements of Art
23. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Gel medium
Photorealism
Lotus postition
Meyer Schapiro
24. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Equipment used in oil painting
A black line
Water
Facing forward and stiff
25. Made out of Metal
Stepped Pyramid Temples
African Benin Sculputure
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Pumice
26. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Adena Indian habitats
Japanese art and buildings
dry - brushing
Egg Tempera
27. Robert Smithson
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Design Elements
Crenellation
Yarn
28. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Appropriation Art
Rough paper
Mississippian
Value
29. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Stoneware properties
value
30. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Brown
Scoring
Van Der Zee
Parchment
31. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Wood and bronze
Julio Gonzalez
Artists associated with Pointillism
Pumice
32. 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).
Brown
Mississippian
Egg Tempera
Gouache
33. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
Linear perspective
Water
Dry Point
The Renaissance
34. 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.
Adena Indian habitats
Linear perspective
scumbling
Hagia Sophia
35. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Depression art
Carving Tools
modeling
Artists associated with Pointillism
36. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Ionic columns
stain glass in a cathedral
A black line
37. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
The post - and - lintel system
Mayan
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Film Speed
38. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Tapestry
Isocephaly
Albert Durer
Corinthian columns
39. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Armature
Tint
Tapestry
binder
40. Continuous frieze
CMYK
Column of Trajan
Gel medium
Armature
41. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Pastel
Frida Kahlo
Principle of Art
Islam art
42. Who said ' less is more'?
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Baroque painting
43. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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44. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Printmaking Techniques
Barabara Krugel
Van Der Zee
intermediate colors
45. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
Depression era Artists
Mississippian
Acrylic paint
William Blake
46. 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
Baroque painting
Armature
Meyer Schapiro
Shade
47. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Chiaroscuro
Tessera
Brushed used in oil painting
Artists associated with Pointillism
48. 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
Shutter Speed
Enameling
Neoclassical
49. Air - dry unfired clay
modeling
Greenware
Rembrandt
Baroque painting
50. 3X 5300 pixels
Mayan
Pointillism
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
best resolution in a digital photo?