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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. To make a quick sketch
Gothic Cathedrals
weft
Rodin
Croquis
2. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Albert Durer
Chiaroscuro
Shutter Speed
binder
3. Rocks - pebbles etc - 'a hole can it self have as much shape meaning as a solid mass. The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation. The hole connects one side to the other - making it immediately more three - dimensional. A hole can i
Shutter Speed
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Scoring
Facing forward and stiff
4. 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.
Yarn
Chiaroscuro
Film Speed
Aperture
5. 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.
Rococo
Sfumato
Shade
Used to protect pastel artwork
6. Air - dry unfired clay
intaglio
Michelangelo
Greenware
Rodin
7. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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8. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
Rice paper
weft
Chiaroscuro
intermediate colors
9. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Jewelry tools
Principle of Art
William Blake
Camera Obscura
10. Origin is Mayan
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Rembrandt
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
11. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
Water
Kinetic art
Artists associated with Pointillism
African Benin Sculputure
12. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Romantic Era
Artists associated with Pointillism
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Neoclassical
13. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
Aperture
A black line
Loom
Greenware
14. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Water
Armature
Photogravure
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
15. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Islam art
Photorealism
Julio Gonzalez
Mayan
16. 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
Pastel
nave
Grisaille
17. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Forms of Charcoal
wedging the clay
Tessera
Safety glasses
18. The laying of paint thickly
Impasto
Corinthian columns
megalith
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
19. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Ionic columns
Rodin
20. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Elements of Art
Encaustic
best resolution in a digital photo?
Design Elements
21. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
the golden section (architecture)
Fire clay
Value
warp
22. A school - style - or method of painting - adopted chiefly by 17th - century Spanish and Neapolitan painters - esp Caravaggio - characterized by large areas of dark colours - usually relieved with a shaft of ligh
aquatint
Tenebrism
Linseed oil
Kinetic art
23. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Baroque painting
Tapestry
Degas and Cassett
24. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Camera Obscura
Tapestry
Esquisse
Romantic Era
25. Painter and printmaker of Romantism.Held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity - and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. Works: The Song of Los - The Lovers Whirlwind - Ancient of Days
Appropriation Art
William Blake
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Depth of Field
26. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
chromatic gray
Describe the process of fresco
Islam art
Batik
27. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Van Der Zee
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Romanesque
the golden section (architecture)
28. rayons resistant to what?
Corinthian columns
Water
Gel medium
Facing forward and stiff
29. Meaning to rub a crayon or other tool onto paper or other material - which is placed onto a textured surface - in order to create the texture of that surface on the paper.
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Frottage
Wedging
Palace of Versaille
30. Symmetrical balance
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31. What city had the first skyscraper?
Sulfur
best resolution in a digital photo?
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Parchment
32. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Baroque painting
Facing forward and stiff
Degas and Cassett
Sfumato
33. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Camera Obscura
Turpentine
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Dry Point
34. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Ceramic glaze
intaglio
Rough paper
Julio Gonzalez
35. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Social Murals
aquatint
Brushed used in oil painting
Barabara Krugel
36. 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.
Charcoal pen
gesso
Depth of Field
dry - brushing
37. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Mayan
Elements of Art
Isocephaly
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
38. 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
chromatic gray
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Romanesque Cathedrals
the golden section (architecture)
39. What is another work for low relief?
Turpentine
Color field painting artists
David Hockney
Bas
40. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Gothic Cathedrals
Collage
Doric columns
41. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Baroque painting
Color field painting
Appropriation Art
Photorealism
42. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
Linear perspective
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
CMYK
43. 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
balance
Monochrome printing
Michelangelo
megalith
44. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Adena Indian habitats
gouache
Value
Rodin
45. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Women artist of the 19th century
best resolution in a digital photo?
stain glass in a cathedral
Pumice
46. Huge stones
Lotus postition
megalith
Artists associated with Pointillism
Gel medium
47. 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).
Egg Tempera
Emphasis
warp
rhythm
48. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Brown
Photogravure
Tessera
constructed the Spiral Jetty
49. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Charcoal pen
analogous Colors
Motif
Designed the Barcelona chair
50. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
slip
Elements of Art
modeling
Cement