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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Romanesque
Basquiat
Pumice
Environmental Art
2. 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.
Croquis
Aperture
Mississippian
Depression era Artists
3. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
Turpentine
Pointillism
Cast concrete - modeling
binder
4. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Batik
Pastel
Forms of Charcoal
Design Elements
5. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Pastel
Turpentine
chromatic gray
6. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Turpentine
Appropriation Art
modeling
Isocephaly
7. rayons resistant to what?
Monochrome printing
Water
Printmaking Techniques
Photogravure
8. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Enameling
Forms of Charcoal
rhythm
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
9. Fix
Embroidery
Aperture
Tessera
Used to protect pastel artwork
10. Origin is Mayan
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Thomas Gainsborough
frisket
Artists associated with Pointillism
11. AP on an art product means what
balance
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Palace of Versaille
Artist Proof
12. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Van Der Zee
Degas and Cassett
Film Speed
Tint
13. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Rough paper
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Facing forward and stiff
Tessera
14. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Dagyuerrotype
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Mayan
Appropriation Art
15. 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
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Rococo
three point perspective
aquatint
16. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Isocephaly
Stoneware
Camera Obscura
Shade
17. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Ceramic glaze
Photogravure
Impasto
CMYK
18. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Carving Tools
Equipment used in oil painting
Charcoal pen
warp
19. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Yarn
Stoneware
Ceramic glaze
Basic Elements of Sculpture
20. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Gouache
weft
Depression art
Japanese art and buildings
21. 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
Water
The post - and - lintel system
Carving Tools
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
22. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Gouache
Carving Tools
Rabbit Skin Glue
Stoneware properties
23. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Hagia Sophia
Principle of Art
Linear perspective
African Benin Sculputure
24. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Design Principles
Mississippian
Frottage
CMYK
25. The central area of a church
Photorealism
Depression era Artists
nave
Water
26. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
Kinetic art
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Paint Extender
Acrylic paint
27. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
scumbling
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
rhythm
frisket
28. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
I.M. Pei
Scoring
A black line
29. 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).
Yarn
Hardbrick
Stoneware
Acrylic paint
30. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
Egg Tempera
scumbling
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Turpentine
31. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
gesso
Color field painting artists
weft
Design Elements
32. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Tenebrism
Grisaille
Kinetic art
Rough paper
33. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Social Realism
Sfumato
Baroque painting
scumbling
34. The art of working raised and ornamental designs in threads of silk - cotton - gold - silver - or other material - upon any woven fabric - leather - paper - etc. - with a needle.
Embroidery
Croquis
Jewelry tools
Rough paper
35. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Romanesque
Shade
The Renaissance
Tapestry
36. Woven wall hangings.
Tapestry
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Sfumato
Frida Kahlo
37. Gray made by mixing complements
chromatic gray
Gouache
Brushed used in oil painting
I.M. Pei
38. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Principle of Art
Jewelry tools
Rotunda
39. 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.
Value
intaglio
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Sfumato
40. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Cast concrete - modeling
gouache
Equipment used in oil painting
Camera Obscura
41. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
Depression era Artists
Artist Proof
The Renaissance
Neoclassical
42. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Design Principles
aquatint
Cement
Degas and Cassett
43. 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.
Facing forward and stiff
The post - and - lintel system
Dagyuerrotype
dry - brushing
44. Who made large portraits of friends?
Turpentine
film speed
Principle of Art
David Hockney
45. Example of baroque architecture
Palace of Versaille
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Neoclassical
vehicle
46. 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
Barabara Krugel
Charcoal pen
value
Frida Kahlo
47. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Assemblage
Gel medium
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Color field painting
48. 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
Hagia Sophia
Known Rodin prints
Trompe - l'oil
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
49. Most common oil in oil paints
Motif
Equipment used in oil painting
Appropriation Art
Linseed oil
50. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Rembrandt
Islam art
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Frottage