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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. What city had the first skyscraper?
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
The post - and - lintel system
Julio Gonzalez
2. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Shade
Loom
modeling
Barabara Krugel
3. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
rhythm
Romantic Era
Mississippian
4. 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).
Albert Durer
modeling
Wood and bronze
Egg Tempera
5. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Color field painting
Wedging
Frida Kahlo
Facing forward and stiff
6. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
David Hockney
megalith
Shade
Artists associated with Pointillism
7. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Pastel
Safety glasses
Assemblage
Rice paper
8. rayons resistant to what?
Batik
Water
Scoring
Charcoal pen
9. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Known Rodin prints
Romanesque Cathedrals
Degas and Cassett
Isocephaly
10. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Julio Gonzalez
Color field painting artists
Dagyuerrotype
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
11. 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
nave
A black line
Jewelry tools
Basquiat
12. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Michelangelo
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Armature
Van Der Zee
13. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Motif
Linear perspective
Enameling
constructed the Spiral Jetty
14. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
modeling
Doric columns
15. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
frisket
Stoneware properties
Armature
Charcoal pen
16. 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
Hagia Sophia
Encaustic
the golden section (architecture)
chromatic gray
17. Most common oil in oil paints
Linseed oil
Corinthian columns
Color field painting artists
balance
18. 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.
Photorealism
Stoneware properties
gesso
Barabara Krugel
19. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
modeling
I.M. Pei
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Pastel
20. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Gel medium
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Crenellation
Frottage
21. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Impasto
Tapestry
Japanese art and buildings
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
22. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
Safety glasses
Pumice
Dagyuerrotype
The Renaissance
23. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
Aperture
Color field painting artists
slip
the golden section (architecture)
24. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
Armature
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Facing forward and stiff
Jewelry tools
25. 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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26. Woven wall hangings.
Tapestry
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
wedging the clay
Egg Tempera
27. 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.
kinds of stones for stone carving
scumbling
Sulfur
Mayan
28. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Ceramic glaze
Crenellation
Greenware
African Benin Sculputure
29. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Adena Indian habitats
Stoneware properties
Wood and bronze
Trompe - l'oil
30. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
modeling
Titan's key works
Fire clay
Scoring
31. Who made large portraits of friends?
Depression art
Equipment used in oil painting
Adena Indian habitats
David Hockney
32. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Shutter Speed
Grisaille
Facing forward and stiff
Japanese art and buildings
33. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Romanesque Cathedrals
Aperture
Degas and Cassett
Encaustic
34. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Tenebrism
stain glass in a cathedral
Palace of Versaille
Mayan
35. Gouge and chisel
Women artist of the 19th century
warp
Carving Tools
Aperture
36. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Loom
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Known Rodin prints
Embroidery
37. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Tessera
frisket
Rococo
Design Elements
38. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
film speed
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Corinthian columns
Parchment
39. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Environmental Art
Depression era Artists
Gothic Cathedrals
I.M. Pei
40. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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41. Fix
Brushed used in oil painting
Design Elements
Camera Obscura
Used to protect pastel artwork
42. Robert Smithson
Artists associated with Pointillism
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Stoneware properties
film speed
43. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Thomas Gainsborough
Rococo
Egg Tempera
Environmental Art
44. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
Islam art
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
frisket
Emphasis
45. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Rembrandt
Neoclassical
binder
Doric columns
46. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
Adena Indian habitats
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
balance
Basquiat
47. Example of baroque architecture
Dome
Lotus postition
Palace of Versaille
Linseed oil
48. Continuous frieze
William Blake
Column of Trajan
Scoring
Motif
49. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Brushed used in oil painting
Women artist of the 19th century
Romanesque
Grisaille
50. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Gel medium
Principle of Art
African masks
Doric columns