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Praxis 2 Art
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1. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Pumice
Women artist of the 19th century
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Barabara Krugel
2. Italian term meaning smoke - describing a very delicate gradation of light and shade in the modeling of figures; often ascribed to Da Vinci's work.
Sfumato
Neoclassical
Social Realism
African masks
3. The genre of painting based on using the camera and photographs to gather information and then from this information - creating a painting that appears to be very realistic like a photograph.
Pumice
analogous Colors
Photorealism
Greenware
4. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Fire clay
Jewelry tools
rhythm
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
5. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Grisaille
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Pumice
6. ...
Charcoal pen
Neoclassical
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
intermediate colors
7. 3X 5300 pixels
best resolution in a digital photo?
Color field painting
rhythm
Palace of Versaille
8. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Hardbrick
aquatint
Rembrandt
Pastel
9. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Safety glasses
African Benin Sculputure
Depression art
Batik
10. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Depression era Artists
aquatint
11. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
binder
Crenellation
Trompe - l'oil
gesso
12. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
scumbling
Batik
Brushed used in oil painting
Hagia Sophia
13. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Thomas Gainsborough
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Ionic columns
Photogravure
14. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Tapestry
Known Rodin prints
Rough paper
Chiaroscuro
15. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Bas
Photorealism
Depth of Field
Facing forward and stiff
16. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Dagyuerrotype
17. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Rabbit Skin Glue
Enameling
Gouache
18. To make a quick sketch
Rough paper
Degas and Cassett
Thomas Gainsborough
Croquis
19. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
balance
Design Principles
Tempera paint
Dry Point
20. 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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21. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Rembrandt
three point perspective
Dome
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
22. What is another work for low relief?
Rembrandt
Rough paper
Bas
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
23. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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24. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Shutter Speed
Rembrandt
kinds of stones for stone carving
25. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Artist Proof
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
CMYK
Georgian Style
26. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
nave
African masks
Known Rodin prints
The post - and - lintel system
27. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Collage
Adena Indian habitats
weft
28. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
value
Armature
Georgian Style
Cast concrete - modeling
29. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Degas and Cassett
Chiaroscuro
Forms of Charcoal
the golden section (architecture)
30. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Joseph Beuys
Gothic Cathedrals
Scoring
Tessera
31. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
Social Realism
weft
chromatic gray
slip
32. 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'.
Julio Gonzalez
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
scumbling
Wedging
33. The laying of paint thickly
Tenebrism
Impasto
Shade
megalith
34. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
Gouache
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Egg Tempera
Ceramic - Sgraffito
35. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Aperture
Forms of Charcoal
A black line
stain glass in a cathedral
36. Origin is Mayan
Designed the Barcelona chair
Shutter Speed
Croquis
Stepped Pyramid Temples
37. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Water
Parchment
chromatic gray
Acrylic paint
38. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
Enameling
vehicle
Ceramic glaze
wedging the clay
39. 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.
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
chromatic gray
Equipment used in oil painting
scumbling
40. Air - dry unfired clay
Linseed oil
Greenware
Neoclassical
The post - and - lintel system
41. 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
Depression era Artists
Baroque painting
Social Realism
warp
42. Example of baroque architecture
Environmental Art
Palace of Versaille
Turpentine
Wedging
43. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
warp
Pop artists
Batik
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
44. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Grisaille
Degas and Cassett
Albert Durer
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
45. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
value
Japanese art and buildings
Ionic columns
intaglio
46. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Ionic columns
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Social Murals
Palace of Versaille
47. 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
binder
Photorealism
Assemblage
48. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Monochrome printing
Encaustic
Doric columns
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
49. 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.
Fire clay
binder
dry - brushing
Linseed oil
50. What city had the first skyscraper?
scumbling
Islam art
Embroidery
Home Insurance Building in NYC