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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. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
Collage
Emphasis
Loom
gouache
2. Gray made by mixing complements
chromatic gray
Corinthian columns
Neoclassical
Rodin
3. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Romanesque
chromatic gray
Mayan
Water
4. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
best resolution in a digital photo?
Turpentine
Gothic Cathedrals
Brushed used in oil painting
5. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Sfumato
Corinthian columns
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Stoneware
6. Who made large portraits of friends?
Gouache
Principle of Art
David Hockney
Neoclassical
7. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Baroque painting
wedging the clay
Value
8. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
Degas and Cassett
aquatint
Stoneware
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
9. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Stoneware properties
Dome
film speed
Color field painting
10. 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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11. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
nave
Hagia Sophia
Depression art
Ionic columns
12. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
film speed
Principle of Art
Assemblage
Pointillism
13. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Wedging
African Benin Sculputure
Pop artists
Titan's key works
14. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Home Insurance Building in NYC
A black line
Social Realism
weft
15. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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16. 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'.
Chiaroscuro
Acrylic paint
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Dry Point
17. Origin is Mayan
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Known Rodin prints
best resolution in a digital photo?
Designed the Barcelona chair
18. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Value
Acrylic paint
Wood and bronze
Dry Point
19. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
Rococo
Yarn
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
warp
20. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
gesso
Cement
intermediate colors
Facing forward and stiff
21. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
Depression era Artists
Water
African masks
three point perspective
22. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Rodin
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Elements of Art
Tapestry
23. Air - dry unfired clay
slip
Greenware
Depth of Field
Rodin
24. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Basquiat
Column of Trajan
binder
Yarn
25. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
Adena Indian habitats
slip
Charcoal pen
Neoclassical
26. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Albert Durer
Doric columns
Rembrandt
Impasto
27. 3X 5300 pixels
Chiaroscuro
Embroidery
best resolution in a digital photo?
Loom
28. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
wedging the clay
Hagia Sophia
gouache
Monochrome printing
29. 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.
Lotus postition
stain glass in a cathedral
Batik
Film Speed
30. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
constructed the Spiral Jetty
aquatint
Batik
Ionic columns
31. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Shutter Speed
Paint Extender
Titan's key works
32. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Printmaking Techniques
Motif
Monochrome printing
Esquisse
33. Made out of Metal
Turpentine
Embroidery
Artist Proof
African Benin Sculputure
34. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
Sulfur
Color field painting artists
Social Realism
Jewelry tools
35. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Environmental Art
Brown
Rodin
Facing forward and stiff
36. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Mayan
Yarn
Camera Obscura
Trompe - l'oil
37. ...
Value
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Social Realism
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
38. Considered one of the greatest printmakers of all time. Working with both woodcuts and copper engravings - he attained a level of detail that is virtually unsurpassed.
Albert Durer
Sfumato
Pop artists
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
39. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Design Principles
'fat over lean'
Encaustic
Paint Extender
40. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
wedging the clay
Collage
best resolution in a digital photo?
Titan's key works
41. In art - the perception of depth in nature as enhanced by haze in the atmosphere; how the appearance of objects is altered over distance by the effects of the air between the viewer and the object
Photorealism
Rotunda
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
42. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Facing forward and stiff
Gouache
Egg Tempera
rhythm
43. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Trompe - l'oil
Describe the process of fresco
Pop artists
Water
44. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Depression art
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Gothic Cathedrals
David Hockney
45. Symmetrical balance
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46. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
intaglio
Facing forward and stiff
Parchment
binder
47. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
Artist Proof
Enameling
Tapestry
I.M. Pei
48. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Shutter Speed
Acrylic paint
rhythm
binder
49. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
warp
Fire clay
Depth of Field
Romanesque Cathedrals
50. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Japanese art and buildings
slip
Yarn
Color field painting