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Praxis 2 Art
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1. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
Pastel
Thomas Gainsborough
Stoneware properties
Column of Trajan
2. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Gel medium
Baroque painting
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Known Rodin prints
3. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Tenebrism
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
African masks
Monochrome printing
4. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Wood and bronze
rhythm
Environmental Art
intaglio
5. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Frottage
Trompe - l'oil
Gothic Cathedrals
Thomas Gainsborough
6. 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.
Charcoal pen
balance
Tessera
Meyer Schapiro
7. 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
A black line
Isocephaly
Georgian Style
8. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Romanesque
Rough paper
balance
Aperture
9. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
Rough paper
Sfumato
Kinetic art
Forms of Charcoal
10. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Stoneware properties
Equipment used in oil painting
Hagia Sophia
Adena Indian habitats
11. Origin is Mayan
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Collage
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Crenellation
12. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
Palace of Versaille
analogous Colors
Cast concrete - modeling
Collage
13. AP on an art product means what
Used to protect pastel artwork
Artist Proof
The Renaissance
Armature
14. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Tessera
Charcoal pen
Stoneware properties
Romantic Era
15. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
The post - and - lintel system
Impasto
stain glass in a cathedral
A black line
16. Rocks - pebbles etc - 'a hole can it self have as much shape meaning as a solid mass. The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation. The hole connects one side to the other - making it immediately more three - dimensional. A hole can i
Collage
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Aperture
constructed the Spiral Jetty
17. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
binder
Depression era Artists
Women artist of the 19th century
value
18. Cyan - Magenta - Yellow - Key (blacK). This ystem is used for printing. For mixing of pigments - it is better to use the secondary colours - since they mix subtractively instead of additively.
Used to protect pastel artwork
CMYK
Mayan
Julio Gonzalez
19. 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
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
frisket
Artist Proof
Designed the Barcelona chair
20. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Tapestry
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Rabbit Skin Glue
rhythm
21. 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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22. Who made large portraits of friends?
David Hockney
analogous Colors
Wedging
Fire clay
23. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Wood and bronze
Frottage
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
value
24. Continuous frieze
stain glass in a cathedral
Equipment used in oil painting
Column of Trajan
Ionic columns
25. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
intermediate colors
Barabara Krugel
modeling
26. Robert Smithson
Dagyuerrotype
Social Realism
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Depth of Field
27. The central area of a church
nave
Dome
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Dagyuerrotype
28. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Carving Tools
Gothic Cathedrals
Equipment used in oil painting
Shutter Speed
29. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
Fire clay
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Greenware
Jewelry tools
30. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Wedging
binder
Depression art
modeling
31. 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
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
chromatic gray
Wood and bronze
Baroque painting
32. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
Describe the process of fresco
Gothic Cathedrals
intaglio
William Blake
33. In oil painting - the technique of brushing one layer of paint on top of another in a way that reveals some of the under color.
scumbling
Depression art
weft
constructed the Spiral Jetty
34. 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'.
Baroque painting
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Batik
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
35. 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
Artists associated with Pointillism
Gothic Cathedrals
William Blake
Rococo
36. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
aquatint
Color field painting artists
Color field painting
Carving Tools
37. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Emphasis
Crenellation
Paint Extender
Collage
38. A form of painting in which tiny dots of primary - colors are used to generate secondary colors. It is very similar to Divisionism - except that where Divisionism is concerned with color theory - Pointillism is more focused on the specific style of b
Appropriation Art
Loom
Pointillism
Water
39. What color do two secondary colors make?
Scoring
Brown
Pastel
Dagyuerrotype
40. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Julio Gonzalez
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Pastel
41. What is another work for low relief?
Bas
Scoring
Hardbrick
Dagyuerrotype
42. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Albert Durer
Pop artists
Degas and Cassett
intaglio
43. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Social Realism
Appropriation Art
Grisaille
Depression art
44. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?
Rembrandt
Dagyuerrotype
African masks
Sulfur
45. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Artists associated with Pointillism
Pumice
Elements of Art
Facing forward and stiff
46. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Stoneware properties
David Hockney
Loom
A black line
47. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
Stoneware properties
Tessera
Aperture
Hagia Sophia
48. 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
Van Der Zee
Greenware
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Frida Kahlo
49. Made out of Metal
African Benin Sculputure
Romantic Era
Neoclassical
Depression era Artists
50. 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.
Hagia Sophia
Albert Durer
Rococo
Japanese art and buildings