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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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1. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Ionic columns
Shade
Principle of Art
scumbling
2. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Column of Trajan
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Cement
Fire clay
3. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
warp
Gel medium
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
4. Who made large portraits of friends?
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Julio Gonzalez
Artists associated with Pointillism
David Hockney
5. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
film speed
Bas
Shutter Speed
gouache
6. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
intermediate colors
Women artist of the 19th century
Brushed used in oil painting
Basquiat
7. 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
the golden section (architecture)
Ionic columns
Carving Tools
Batik
8. 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
Rodin
the golden section (architecture)
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Dome
9. To make a quick sketch
Dry Point
Croquis
Ionic columns
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
10. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Color field painting artists
Photogravure
Scoring
nave
11. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Photorealism
Gothic Cathedrals
Another term used for buddhist temple
Degas and Cassett
12. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
three point perspective
David Hockney
Gouache
13. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
Acrylic paint
vehicle
Design Principles
weft
14. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Facing forward and stiff
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Julio Gonzalez
frisket
15. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
Tapestry
stain glass in a cathedral
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Pastel
16. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
Sulfur
Neoclassical
Gouache
African masks
17. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Rough paper
value
Photogravure
Linear perspective
18. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Aperture
Known Rodin prints
Artists associated with Pointillism
Sfumato
19. What city had the first skyscraper?
Ionic columns
Trompe - l'oil
Rotunda
Home Insurance Building in NYC
20. 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
Rough paper
Baroque painting
Pastel
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
21. 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'.
Aperture
William Blake
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Crenellation
22. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
The Renaissance
Collage
aquatint
gouache
23. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
African Benin Sculputure
modeling
Dagyuerrotype
stain glass in a cathedral
24. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
I.M. Pei
Photorealism
Frottage
25. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Julio Gonzalez
Thomas Gainsborough
Describe the process of fresco
26. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Embroidery
Chiaroscuro
Titan's key works
analogous Colors
27. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light. More sensitive (faster) films have higher ISO numbers and require less exposure in order to make a properly - exposed picture.
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Frottage
Rice paper
Film Speed
28. What is another work for low relief?
Describe the process of fresco
Bas
Color field painting
the golden section (architecture)
29. Rene Magritte
Wedging
Charcoal pen
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Tapestry
30. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
Japanese art and buildings
Romanesque
Monochrome printing
Turpentine
31. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Croquis
Rembrandt
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
film speed
32. 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
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
wedging the clay
the golden section (architecture)
33. 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.
African masks
Cement
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Frottage
34. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
nave
Isocephaly
Rabbit Skin Glue
chromatic gray
35. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Romanesque
Ceramic glaze
Cast concrete - modeling
Gel medium
36. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
Kinetic art
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Jewelry tools
Color field painting
37. 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.
balance
Tenebrism
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Grisaille
38. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Romanesque Cathedrals
Rice paper
Depression era Artists
Esquisse
39. Used in water printing
Yarn
Crenellation
Acrylic paint
Collage
40. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Used to protect pastel artwork
Shade
Design Elements
Mississippian
41. Robert Smithson
Cement
Impasto
film speed
constructed the Spiral Jetty
42. 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.
Printmaking Techniques
Photorealism
nave
Aperture
43. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Romanesque
Shade
Emphasis
Women artist of the 19th century
44. The principle in oil painting that suggests each layer of paint should contain more oil than the one beneath. Awareness of this concept helps ensure permanence.
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45. Made out of Metal
Cement
African Benin Sculputure
slip
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
46. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
Palace of Versaille
Yarn
frisket
Trompe - l'oil
47. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Parchment
dry - brushing
48. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
Neoclassical
Thomas Gainsborough
Color field painting artists
Corinthian columns
49. What color do two secondary colors make?
Color field painting artists
Used to protect pastel artwork
The post - and - lintel system
Brown
50. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Acrylic paint
Degas and Cassett
Water
Islam art