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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. Who said ' less is more'?
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Kinetic art
Home Insurance Building in NYC
2. 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.
Georgian Style
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Parchment
scumbling
3. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Romantic Era
Impasto
Julio Gonzalez
Dry Point
4. 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'.
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Rabbit Skin Glue
Women artist of the 19th century
Esquisse
5. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Design Principles
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Linseed oil
Safety glasses
6. 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
warp
Social Realism
Tenebrism
Scoring
7. 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
Rococo
Embroidery
Social Murals
Shutter Speed
8. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
value
I.M. Pei
Equipment used in oil painting
Baroque painting
9. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
vehicle
gouache
Color field painting artists
Mississippian
10. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Social Murals
Tapestry
Hagia Sophia
Camera Obscura
11. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
Ceramic - Sgraffito
three point perspective
Social Realism
weft
12. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Linear perspective
William Blake
Depression era Artists
Brushed used in oil painting
13. 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
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Color field painting
Elements of Art
14. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
Egg Tempera
Tapestry
frisket
binder
15. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
slip
Elements of Art
Depression era Artists
Depression art
16. AP on an art product means what
Tint
Artist Proof
Linear perspective
Social Realism
17. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
Linseed oil
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
gesso
Impasto
18. A painting medium in which pigment is mixed with water - soluble glutinous materials such as size or egg yolk. Also called poster color - poster paint.
Tempera paint
aquatint
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Film Speed
19. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
modeling
Bas
Depression era Artists
Charcoal pen
20. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Pop artists
Sfumato
Collage
Printmaking Techniques
21. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Tapestry
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Forms of Charcoal
Pointillism
22. 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.
Used to protect pastel artwork
Bas
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Islam art
23. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Wood and bronze
Georgian Style
I.M. Pei
Hardbrick
24. What city had the first skyscraper?
Fire clay
Scoring
Home Insurance Building in NYC
stain glass in a cathedral
25. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
A black line
Julio Gonzalez
Aperture
Parchment
26. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Photorealism
rhythm
intermediate colors
27. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Julio Gonzalez
Rotunda
The post - and - lintel system
Appropriation Art
28. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
Describe the process of fresco
Parchment
wedging the clay
William Blake
29. Gouge and chisel
Environmental Art
Tint
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Carving Tools
30. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
weft
Value
intermediate colors
Home Insurance Building in NYC
31. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
balance
wedging the clay
Batik
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
32. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Cast concrete - modeling
Design Elements
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Home Insurance Building in NYC
33. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Designed the Barcelona chair
Cement
Column of Trajan
slip
34. Who made large portraits of friends?
Loom
David Hockney
Aperture
Tapestry
35. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
William Blake
analogous Colors
Meyer Schapiro
Stoneware properties
36. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Artists associated with Pointillism
Loom
Yarn
Known Rodin prints
37. Rene Magritte
Tapestry
Encaustic
Hardbrick
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
38. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Mississippian
Design Elements
Degas and Cassett
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
39. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Dagyuerrotype
Gel medium
Tessera
constructed the Spiral Jetty
40. 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
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Color field painting
Home Insurance Building in NYC
41. The art of working raised and ornamental designs in threads of silk - cotton - gold - silver - or other material - upon any woven fabric - leather - paper - etc. - with a needle.
Color field painting
Embroidery
Egg Tempera
Abstract Expressionist Artists
42. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Egg Tempera
Sfumato
Rice paper
Rotunda
43. 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
Basquiat
Crenellation
Color field painting
Frida Kahlo
44. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Color field painting
Principle of Art
intaglio
Encaustic
45. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
modeling
Principle of Art
Islam art
Tempera paint
46. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Charcoal pen
Gouache
Bas
Emphasis
47. 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
Joseph Beuys
Home Insurance Building in NYC
wedging the clay
48. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Pumice
Color field painting
African masks
49. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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50. A dominant idea or central theme
weft
Photorealism
Motif
Basic Elements of Sculpture