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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
slip
best resolution in a digital photo?
Safety glasses
warp
2. The second oldest medium after encaustic. It was used by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks and perfected by the icon painters during the last 100 years of the old Byzantine Empire (400 AD-1202 AD).
Batik
Dome
Egg Tempera
Joseph Beuys
3. Used in water printing
The Renaissance
Acrylic paint
Collage
Isocephaly
4. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
Film Speed
Dry Point
Lotus postition
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
5. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Japanese art and buildings
Monochrome printing
I.M. Pei
Tenebrism
6. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
intaglio
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
rhythm
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
7. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Fire clay
Loom
Embroidery
David Hockney
8. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Esquisse
Pop artists
Tenebrism
gesso
9. ...
Joseph Beuys
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
chromatic gray
Charcoal pen
10. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Aperture
Frottage
Women artist of the 19th century
Croquis
11. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Aperture
David Hockney
Paint Extender
Camera Obscura
12. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Enameling
Basquiat
wedging the clay
Yarn
13. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
Cement
film speed
'fat over lean'
Rice paper
14. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
The post - and - lintel system
Appropriation Art
Wood and bronze
intermediate colors
15. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Enameling
Hagia Sophia
Julio Gonzalez
intaglio
16. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Thomas Gainsborough
Greenware
gesso
17. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Frida Kahlo
Armature
Chiaroscuro
18. What color do two secondary colors make?
Brown
Artists associated with Pointillism
Rembrandt
Crenellation
19. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Stoneware
Printmaking Techniques
Brushed used in oil painting
nave
20. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Turpentine
Baroque painting
Wedging
Depression art
21. The laying of paint thickly
Impasto
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Armature
Hardbrick
22. 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
Designed the Barcelona chair
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Tapestry
Mississippian
23. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Turpentine
Elements of Art
wedging the clay
Pumice
24. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Doric columns
Motif
Designed the Barcelona chair
A black line
25. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
Mayan
megalith
Chiaroscuro
Mississippian
26. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Degas and Cassett
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Parchment
Adena Indian habitats
27. 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.
Romantic Era
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Stoneware properties
dry - brushing
28. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
Cast concrete - modeling
Frida Kahlo
Tint
analogous Colors
29. 3X 5300 pixels
Michelangelo
best resolution in a digital photo?
intermediate colors
Known Rodin prints
30. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Rotunda
Barabara Krugel
The post - and - lintel system
best resolution in a digital photo?
31. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Georgian Style
Thomas Gainsborough
Design Elements
Ceramic - Sgraffito
32. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
gesso
Column of Trajan
best resolution in a digital photo?
binder
33. 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.
Aperture
Artists associated with Pointillism
Another term used for buddhist temple
Social Murals
34. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
analogous Colors
Japanese art and buildings
A black line
Crenellation
35. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Adena Indian habitats
Rice paper
Tempera paint
Known Rodin prints
36. 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
Known Rodin prints
Camera Obscura
Facing forward and stiff
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
37. 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
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Rococo
Georgian Style
Lotus postition
38. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Cement
analogous Colors
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Dagyuerrotype
39. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
A black line
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Sfumato
Color field painting artists
40. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston
Women artist of the 19th century
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Palace of Versaille
Neoclassical
41. Most common oil in oil paints
Linseed oil
Rembrandt
Printmaking Techniques
Mississippian
42. 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
Rodin
Depression art
kinds of stones for stone carving
43. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Kinetic art
Known Rodin prints
megalith
44. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Rococo
CMYK
Hagia Sophia
Dry Point
45. Gouge and chisel
Isocephaly
modeling
Carving Tools
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
46. Focused on the depiction of patterns and Arabic calligraphy - rather than on figures - because it is feared by many Muslims that the depiction of the human form is idolatry and thereby a sin against God - forbidden in the Qur'an.
Women artist of the 19th century
dry - brushing
Islam art
Cement
47. A dominant idea or central theme
Acrylic paint
Motif
Encaustic
Facing forward and stiff
48. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Forms of Charcoal
The Renaissance
Describe the process of fresco
Tint
49. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
analogous Colors
Brushed used in oil painting
Neoclassical
Photorealism
50. 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.
Safety glasses
balance
Equipment used in oil painting
Color field painting artists