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Praxis 2 Art
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
frisket
Water
David Hockney
Chiaroscuro
2. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Color field painting artists
Stoneware
Stoneware properties
3. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
Rotunda
Stoneware properties
Photorealism
Pop artists
4. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
Assemblage
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Kinetic art
Ceramic - Sgraffito
5. 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).
Designed the Barcelona chair
Dome
Acrylic paint
Hardbrick
6. 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
weft
Rococo
CMYK
Thomas Gainsborough
7. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Degas and Cassett
Camera Obscura
Basquiat
Esquisse
8. ...
Charcoal pen
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Tempera paint
Doric columns
9. The laying of paint thickly
Social Murals
Pumice
Neoclassical
Impasto
10. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Women artist of the 19th century
Crenellation
Frottage
Gel medium
11. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Social Realism
Brushed used in oil painting
Crenellation
Printmaking Techniques
12. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
modeling
film speed
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Rembrandt
13. Fix
Linseed oil
Used to protect pastel artwork
scumbling
nave
14. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Cement
Gel medium
Barabara Krugel
15. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
Tapestry
Dome
rhythm
Linseed oil
16. Made out of Metal
Esquisse
Kinetic art
Paint Extender
African Benin Sculputure
17. 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
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Barabara Krugel
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
the golden section (architecture)
18. 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
Pop artists
Dome
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Enameling
19. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Depression art
Mayan
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Armature
20. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Gel medium
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Depth of Field
Known Rodin prints
21. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
slip
Mayan
Tempera paint
Stoneware
22. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
weft
Pointillism
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Hagia Sophia
23. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Facing forward and stiff
weft
dry - brushing
24. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Charcoal pen
Motif
Lotus postition
Water
25. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Artists associated with Pointillism
Facing forward and stiff
Gouache
Charcoal pen
26. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Shutter Speed
Women artist of the 19th century
Basic Elements of Sculpture
kinds of stones for stone carving
27. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Brown
Enameling
Parchment
Aperture
28. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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29. Gouge and chisel
Carving Tools
Social Murals
Palace of Versaille
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
30. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
Enameling
Elements of Art
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Depression era Artists
31. Symmetrical balance
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32. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Dry Point
Pastel
Forms of Charcoal
Cast concrete - modeling
33. AP on an art product means what
The Renaissance
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Artist Proof
Dry Point
34. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Column of Trajan
Photogravure
Batik
Pastel
35. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Rough paper
Thomas Gainsborough
Wood and bronze
36. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Tempera paint
Value
Yarn
Armature
37. What city had the first skyscraper?
Artists associated with Pointillism
Home Insurance Building in NYC
megalith
Another term used for buddhist temple
38. Origin is Mayan
Dry Point
Joseph Beuys
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Film Speed
39. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
Known Rodin prints
Turpentine
A black line
Another term used for buddhist temple
40. Example of baroque architecture
CMYK
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Palace of Versaille
41. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Social Murals
Wood and bronze
Printmaking Techniques
megalith
42. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Sfumato
Artist Proof
Pumice
Film Speed
43. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Mayan
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Elements of Art
Photogravure
44. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
Japanese art and buildings
intermediate colors
Corinthian columns
Camera Obscura
45. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Shade
Yarn
Batik
46. A dominant idea or central theme
Georgian Style
Meyer Schapiro
Motif
Safety glasses
47. 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.
Tempera paint
Charcoal pen
Michelangelo
Stoneware properties
48. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
kinds of stones for stone carving
Pop artists
Croquis
Design Elements
49. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Equipment used in oil painting
Pop artists
Artists associated with Pointillism
Photogravure
50. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
The Renaissance
Stoneware properties
Van Der Zee
Appropriation Art