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Praxis 2 Art
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1. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Gel medium
Georgian Style
Facing forward and stiff
Social Realism
2. 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
Ionic columns
Elements of Art
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Michelangelo
3. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Romantic Era
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Frottage
Tenebrism
4. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Appropriation Art
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Titan's key works
5. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Isocephaly
Designed the Barcelona chair
frisket
I.M. Pei
6. 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.
Tessera
balance
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Egg Tempera
7. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Tint
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Environmental Art
Chiaroscuro
8. Statuettes were mostly used for two purposes: to incarnate a spirit of the bush - and the second was to represent a spouse from the other world 'Blolo Bla' or 'Blolo Bian'.
scumbling
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Greenware
William Blake
9. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Monochrome printing
Japanese art and buildings
Chiaroscuro
10. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Social Realism
Dagyuerrotype
11. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Enameling
Crenellation
Turpentine
Forms of Charcoal
12. 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
Describe the process of fresco
the golden section (architecture)
Doric columns
13. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
scumbling
Chiaroscuro
wedging the clay
Basic Elements of Sculpture
14. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
Dome
Michelangelo
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
15. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Pop artists
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Fire clay
Pumice
16. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
Elements of Art
analogous Colors
Printmaking Techniques
Parchment
17. Example of baroque architecture
slip
Palace of Versaille
megalith
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
18. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Pop artists
Tessera
Paint Extender
The post - and - lintel system
19. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Palace of Versaille
Tempera paint
Grisaille
Value
20. Hard - dense firebrick generally used only in high - stress areas of kiln (floor - burner ports - flues - bagwall) and for corrosive firing processes (salt - soda - wood).
Hardbrick
Georgian Style
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
three point perspective
21. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
Equipment used in oil painting
Chiaroscuro
Mississippian
Greenware
22. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
Stoneware properties
Tapestry
Mississippian
megalith
23. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Palace of Versaille
Safety glasses
Sulfur
Depression art
24. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
Forms of Charcoal
Grisaille
Enameling
intaglio
25. The laying of paint thickly
'fat over lean'
Impasto
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Photorealism
26. Came in response to the darkness and heaviness of Baroque art - but did continue many of the ideals specified during the 17th century. Rococo related much more to decorative shapes as well as the natural and organic. Swirling shapes and asymmetrical
Rococo
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Kinetic art
27. Fix
Esquisse
Chiaroscuro
Used to protect pastel artwork
Fire clay
28. 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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29. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Color field painting artists
best resolution in a digital photo?
Depth of Field
Doric columns
30. ...
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
stain glass in a cathedral
aquatint
31. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
film speed
Dagyuerrotype
Croquis
Yarn
32. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
Scoring
Bas
warp
Pumice
33. Robert Smithson
balance
Mississippian
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Linseed oil
34. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Environmental Art
Pastel
Barabara Krugel
Appropriation Art
35. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Grisaille
Tapestry
value
Color field painting
36. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Rabbit Skin Glue
Esquisse
kinds of stones for stone carving
Stoneware
37. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
Neoclassical
Meyer Schapiro
Thomas Gainsborough
Ceramic glaze
38. 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
Frida Kahlo
Depression era Artists
African Benin Sculputure
stain glass in a cathedral
39. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
Ceramic glaze
slip
Artist Proof
aquatint
40. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
weft
Wedging
Isocephaly
stain glass in a cathedral
41. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Brushed used in oil painting
Dagyuerrotype
wedging the clay
Van Der Zee
42. rayons resistant to what?
Water
Thomas Gainsborough
balance
Enameling
43. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
Romantic Era
Stoneware
vehicle
analogous Colors
44. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Dry Point
Crenellation
Ceramic - Sgraffito
scumbling
45. 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
Charcoal pen
Baroque painting
Thomas Gainsborough
warp
46. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
Charcoal pen
I.M. Pei
stain glass in a cathedral
film speed
47. A dominant idea or central theme
Pumice
Armature
Motif
Forms of Charcoal
48. 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
Gouache
Mayan
Crenellation
the golden section (architecture)
49. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Safety glasses
chromatic gray
gouache
Sfumato
50. Most common oil in oil paints
Pastel
intaglio
Linseed oil
I.M. Pei