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Praxis 2 Art
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1. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Aperture
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Depth of Field
Thomas Gainsborough
2. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
CMYK
I.M. Pei
Mayan
Pointillism
3. AP on an art product means what
Linear perspective
Pointillism
Artist Proof
Depression art
4. 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
Brushed used in oil painting
Artists associated with Pointillism
Baroque painting
Describe the process of fresco
5. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
frisket
Ceramic - Sgraffito
rhythm
Stoneware
6. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
Charcoal pen
Printmaking Techniques
Design Elements
intermediate colors
7. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Rice paper
Tapestry
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Camera Obscura
8. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Design Elements
Romantic Era
Printmaking Techniques
Shade
9. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Doric columns
Rotunda
Social Realism
Croquis
10. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Depth of Field
Design Elements
kinds of stones for stone carving
11. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
Ceramic - Sgraffito
weft
Chiaroscuro
Linseed oil
12. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
David Hockney
intaglio
Paint Extender
Tapestry
13. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Armature
Ionic columns
Social Murals
14. Woven wall hangings.
Tapestry
Motif
Column of Trajan
Yarn
15. A German performance artist - sculptor - installation artist - graphic artist - art theorist and pedagogue of art. Artwork: Performance : How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare
Islam art
Joseph Beuys
Crenellation
Rococo
16. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Camera Obscura
Stepped Pyramid Temples
William Blake
Color field painting
17. 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
Shade
Frida Kahlo
Printmaking Techniques
Stoneware properties
18. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
stain glass in a cathedral
Dome
Scoring
best resolution in a digital photo?
19. 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.
Facing forward and stiff
Sfumato
megalith
Artists associated with Pointillism
20. Possin was a French painter in the classical style.Themes of tragedy and death are prevalent in Poussin's work.[13] Et in Arcadia ego - a subject he painted twice (second version is seen at right) - exemplifies his cerebral approach. In this composit
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21. ...
Linear perspective
Pumice
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Esquisse
22. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Linseed oil
Neoclassical
Dagyuerrotype
Joseph Beuys
23. Made out of Metal
Social Realism
Tapestry
Carving Tools
African Benin Sculputure
24. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Esquisse
scumbling
Tapestry
Barabara Krugel
25. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Brushed used in oil painting
Joseph Beuys
Printmaking Techniques
Chiaroscuro
26. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Albert Durer
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Stoneware
27. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Collage
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
The post - and - lintel system
Tapestry
28. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
Depression era Artists
value
Social Murals
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
29. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Bas
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Assemblage
frisket
30. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Neoclassical
best resolution in a digital photo?
modeling
31. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Barabara Krugel
Safety glasses
vehicle
Romantic Era
32. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Gothic Cathedrals
best resolution in a digital photo?
Carving Tools
33. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Crenellation
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Dagyuerrotype
Pointillism
34. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Tapestry
Corinthian columns
gouache
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
35. Harlem Renaissance artist known for etchings - was a German painter - printmaker - and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition in the first half of the 20th century. Her empathy for the less fortunate
Tapestry
frisket
Bas
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
36. 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.
Palace of Versaille
Forms of Charcoal
African Benin Sculputure
Frottage
37. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
warp
Embroidery
value
Wood and bronze
38. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Appropriation Art
stain glass in a cathedral
Trompe - l'oil
Grisaille
39. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Ceramic glaze
Motif
Another term used for buddhist temple
Camera Obscura
40. 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
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Motif
Batik
41. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Tapestry
Degas and Cassett
Carving Tools
42. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
value
Hagia Sophia
Depression era Artists
The Renaissance
43. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Printmaking Techniques
Isocephaly
Sfumato
Cast concrete - modeling
44. Gouge and chisel
Artist Proof
Carving Tools
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Barabara Krugel
45. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
Corinthian columns
CMYK
Column of Trajan
Scoring
46. 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.
Tapestry
Tempera paint
Elements of Art
Hagia Sophia
47. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Romanesque Cathedrals
Collage
Stoneware properties
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
48. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Georgian Style
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
vehicle
49. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Doric columns
Linseed oil
Cement
Stepped Pyramid Temples
50. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Pumice
Tenebrism
David Hockney
Artists who used Vamera Obscura