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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. 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.
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Safety glasses
Tempera paint
Rotunda
2. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Appropriation Art
Used to protect pastel artwork
Principle of Art
Mississippian
3. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
Facing forward and stiff
film speed
Rabbit Skin Glue
three point perspective
4. Robert Smithson
Van Der Zee
African Benin Sculputure
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Equipment used in oil painting
5. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Designed the Barcelona chair
best resolution in a digital photo?
CMYK
Frida Kahlo
6. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Water
Japanese art and buildings
Dome
Islam art
7. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
best resolution in a digital photo?
intaglio
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
8. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Assemblage
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
vehicle
Rabbit Skin Glue
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
gesso
Meyer Schapiro
Design Principles
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
10. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Film Speed
Rembrandt
Mississippian
Brushed used in oil painting
11. ...
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Water
Sulfur
Rococo
12. 3X 5300 pixels
Facing forward and stiff
Doric columns
Sfumato
best resolution in a digital photo?
13. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Adena Indian habitats
Gothic Cathedrals
Emphasis
Linseed oil
14. 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
Chiaroscuro
Michelangelo
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
rhythm
15. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
African Benin Sculputure
Grisaille
gouache
Barabara Krugel
16. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Depth of Field
Romantic Era
Linear perspective
'fat over lean'
17. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Pumice
Fire clay
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Rice paper
18. 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.
Aperture
CMYK
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Romantic Era
19. Rene Magritte
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Design Elements
The post - and - lintel system
Emphasis
20. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
Degas and Cassett
Parchment
Forms of Charcoal
warp
21. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
vehicle
Lotus postition
Enameling
Depression era Artists
22. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Thomas Gainsborough
Encaustic
Sfumato
Photogravure
23. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Social Murals
Motif
Esquisse
Enameling
24. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
Dagyuerrotype
Brushed used in oil painting
Emphasis
Julio Gonzalez
25. Woven wall hangings.
Tapestry
Adena Indian habitats
Tessera
'fat over lean'
26. Cyan - Magenta - Yellow - Key (blacK). This ystem is used for printing. For mixing of pigments - it is better to use the secondary colours - since they mix subtractively instead of additively.
Gothic Cathedrals
Van Der Zee
Adena Indian habitats
CMYK
27. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
Women artist of the 19th century
Stoneware properties
Pop artists
Turpentine
28. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
intermediate colors
Dry Point
dry - brushing
Degas and Cassett
29. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Brushed used in oil painting
best resolution in a digital photo?
Forms of Charcoal
Tessera
30. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Sfumato
Design Principles
Palace of Versaille
Ceramic - Sgraffito
31. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
intermediate colors
Degas and Cassett
chromatic gray
Loom
32. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
33. 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
chromatic gray
Frida Kahlo
Aperture
Environmental Art
34. 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.
binder
Pumice
Wood and bronze
Sfumato
35. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
frisket
Women artist of the 19th century
Barabara Krugel
Stepped Pyramid Temples
36. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Known Rodin prints
Linear perspective
Design Elements
Loom
37. 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
Rodin
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
scumbling
Dome
38. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
Mayan
vehicle
rhythm
Used to protect pastel artwork
39. Continuous frieze
Column of Trajan
Emphasis
modeling
Used to protect pastel artwork
40. Symmetrical balance
41. 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.
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Ceramic glaze
gouache
scumbling
42. 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
Kinetic art
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Baroque painting
Designed the Barcelona chair
43. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Forms of Charcoal
Loom
Depth of Field
Mississippian
44. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Dry Point
Trompe - l'oil
Used to protect pastel artwork
Gel medium
45. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Corinthian columns
intermediate colors
Tint
Egg Tempera
46. 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.
Egg Tempera
Rice paper
Another term used for buddhist temple
balance
47. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
CMYK
modeling
Camera Obscura
Embroidery
48. Huge stones
megalith
modeling
Dagyuerrotype
William Blake
49. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Principle of Art
Rembrandt
Adena Indian habitats
Crenellation
50. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Rabbit Skin Glue
Wood and bronze
frisket
Elements of Art