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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. 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
Motif
Pumice
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Corinthian columns
2. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Romanesque
wedging the clay
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Describe the process of fresco
3. 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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4. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?
Hardbrick
Used to protect pastel artwork
Sulfur
rhythm
5. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Photogravure
binder
Rembrandt
gesso
6. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Van Der Zee
Dry Point
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Bas
7. Known by its massive quality - its thick walls - round arches - sturdy piers - groin vaults - large towers and decorative arcading. Each building has clearly defined forms and they are frequently of very regular - symmetrical plan so that the overall
Chiaroscuro
Photogravure
Pumice
Romanesque Cathedrals
8. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
Emphasis
Greenware
warp
Stoneware properties
9. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
chromatic gray
William Blake
Corinthian columns
Islam art
10. 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
Tenebrism
CMYK
vehicle
Wood and bronze
11. Symmetrical balance
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12. 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
Pointillism
Michelangelo
Sfumato
Stoneware properties
13. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
Sfumato
Romanesque Cathedrals
analogous Colors
Value
14. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Tint
Gel medium
Armature
Albert Durer
15. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
The post - and - lintel system
Pumice
Rembrandt
16. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Describe the process of fresco
Batik
Julio Gonzalez
African masks
17. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Hagia Sophia
Rococo
Color field painting artists
18. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Japanese art and buildings
Batik
Artist Proof
Islam art
19. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Another term used for buddhist temple
Mayan
Wood and bronze
Social Murals
20. 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
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Artists associated with Pointillism
Color field painting
binder
21. A German performance artist - sculptor - installation artist - graphic artist - art theorist and pedagogue of art. Artwork: Performance : How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare
Joseph Beuys
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Croquis
Pumice
22. rayons resistant to what?
Cast concrete - modeling
Artist Proof
Water
Esquisse
23. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Tint
Lotus postition
Principle of Art
Degas and Cassett
24. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Rabbit Skin Glue
Kinetic art
Sulfur
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
25. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
slip
the golden section (architecture)
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Collage
26. What color do two secondary colors make?
Brown
David Hockney
Rabbit Skin Glue
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
27. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Neoclassical
Rice paper
Wedging
Designed the Barcelona chair
28. Air - dry unfired clay
Column of Trajan
Greenware
Kinetic art
Tint
29. 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
Depression art
Frida Kahlo
Abstract Expressionist Artists
gouache
30. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Egg Tempera
Julio Gonzalez
Collage
Romantic Era
31. 3X 5300 pixels
Fire clay
Film Speed
Pop artists
best resolution in a digital photo?
32. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Esquisse
Brown
Enameling
African masks
33. What is another work for low relief?
Bas
Camera Obscura
gesso
Collage
34. 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.
Neoclassical
CMYK
Photogravure
Bas
35. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Georgian Style
Artists associated with Pointillism
megalith
Joseph Beuys
36. Made out of Metal
African Benin Sculputure
Julio Gonzalez
Charcoal pen
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
37. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Japanese art and buildings
aquatint
Isocephaly
Mississippian
38. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Principle of Art
intaglio
Gouache
Croquis
39. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Photogravure
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Thomas Gainsborough
Known Rodin prints
40. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
Jewelry tools
Grisaille
Gel medium
dry - brushing
41. 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.
gesso
balance
Dome
dry - brushing
42. 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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43. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
binder
Batik
Cement
Adena Indian habitats
44. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
African masks
Designed the Barcelona chair
nave
Pointillism
45. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
three point perspective
chromatic gray
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
46. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Scoring
Turpentine
David Hockney
Tessera
47. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Fire clay
Hagia Sophia
Known Rodin prints
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
48. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Joseph Beuys
Design Elements
Principle of Art
Romanesque
49. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
Armature
Tapestry
Turpentine
Encaustic
50. 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.
stain glass in a cathedral
Tempera paint
Jewelry tools
Crenellation