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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. Rene Magritte
Pop artists
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Cement
Dome
2. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
Camera Obscura
wedging the clay
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Georgian Style
3. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
gouache
Baroque painting
chromatic gray
Elements of Art
4. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Baroque painting
Film Speed
Isocephaly
William Blake
5. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
African masks
Trompe - l'oil
Principle of Art
Rembrandt
6. Sculptor. Major Work: The Thinker - a naturalist - less concerned with monumental expression than with character and emotion. Departing with centuries of tradition - he turned away from the idealism of the Greeks - and the decorative beauty of the Ba
Appropriation Art
Rodin
Used to protect pastel artwork
Impasto
7. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
Acrylic paint
intaglio
Frida Kahlo
Corinthian columns
8. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Rice paper
Meyer Schapiro
Safety glasses
Wedging
9. 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
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
frisket
Michelangelo
Japanese art and buildings
10. 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.
dry - brushing
Environmental Art
three point perspective
Film Speed
11. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?
megalith
Dome
Sulfur
'fat over lean'
12. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
value
analogous Colors
Brushed used in oil painting
Meyer Schapiro
13. 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
rhythm
Baroque painting
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Chiaroscuro
14. AP on an art product means what
Wedging
Impasto
Artist Proof
Elements of Art
15. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Forms of Charcoal
binder
Gouache
Cement
16. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Julio Gonzalez
Tempera paint
Neoclassical
vehicle
17. What city had the first skyscraper?
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Bas
18. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Enameling
Used to protect pastel artwork
Women artist of the 19th century
Esquisse
19. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Romanesque
Rotunda
Social Murals
Depth of Field
20. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Cast concrete - modeling
Doric columns
Design Elements
I.M. Pei
21. 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
Pointillism
Wood and bronze
Column of Trajan
22. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Principle of Art
Used to protect pastel artwork
Romantic Era
Basic Elements of Sculpture
23. A dominant idea or central theme
aquatint
Photorealism
Frottage
Motif
24. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Collage
Rodin
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
A black line
25. A school - style - or method of painting - adopted chiefly by 17th - century Spanish and Neapolitan painters - esp Caravaggio - characterized by large areas of dark colours - usually relieved with a shaft of ligh
Esquisse
Tenebrism
Joseph Beuys
Palace of Versaille
26. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
Sfumato
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Rotunda
Lotus postition
27. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Women artist of the 19th century
Rococo
Batik
Dry Point
28. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Shutter Speed
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
wedging the clay
Scoring
29. Pagoda
Another term used for buddhist temple
Romanesque
Georgian Style
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
30. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Adena Indian habitats
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Palace of Versaille
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.
Enameling
chromatic gray
Acrylic paint
Dagyuerrotype
32. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
Degas and Cassett
Column of Trajan
modeling
Embroidery
33. 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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34. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Design Principles
Tint
Brown
Egg Tempera
35. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Crenellation
Hagia Sophia
Ceramic glaze
Turpentine
36. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
vehicle
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Pastel
Albert Durer
37. Who said ' less is more'?
weft
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Palace of Versaille
38. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
Cement
Batik
Meyer Schapiro
Emphasis
39. 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
chromatic gray
Crenellation
Michelangelo
Basquiat
40. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Artists associated with Pointillism
Film Speed
gesso
The Renaissance
41. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Pointillism
Describe the process of fresco
Shutter Speed
Pop artists
42. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Pointillism
Camera Obscura
Rococo
Cast concrete - modeling
43. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Loom
Tapestry
Michelangelo
Value
44. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Van Der Zee
Stoneware
Degas and Cassett
Fire clay
45. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Thomas Gainsborough
Esquisse
slip
Romantic Era
46. Who made large portraits of friends?
Michelangelo
Women artist of the 19th century
David Hockney
Rembrandt
47. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Social Murals
Degas and Cassett
intaglio
Water
48. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Fire clay
Principle of Art
The Renaissance
Designed the Barcelona chair
49. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
Forms of Charcoal
Frida Kahlo
Cast concrete - modeling
A black line
50. 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.
Parchment
Grisaille
Frottage
Stoneware