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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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1. 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.
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Camera Obscura
Rice paper
Albert Durer
2. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
megalith
Cast concrete - modeling
Bas
Gel medium
3. Continuous frieze
Column of Trajan
Frida Kahlo
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Fire clay
4. Origin is Mayan
Stepped Pyramid Temples
value
Camera Obscura
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
5. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Monochrome printing
Cement
Social Realism
Dome
6. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Pop artists
Design Elements
Crenellation
Principle of Art
7. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Brushed used in oil painting
Egg Tempera
intaglio
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
8. To make a quick sketch
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Croquis
Lotus postition
Women artist of the 19th century
9. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
Safety glasses
wedging the clay
Value
nave
10. A ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both. Ancient Ea ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the su
the golden section (architecture)
Artists associated with Pointillism
Romanesque
Describe the process of fresco
11. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Rabbit Skin Glue
Enameling
Social Murals
scumbling
12. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston
warp
Abstract Expressionist Artists
rhythm
Photorealism
13. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
Romanesque Cathedrals
Ionic columns
Sfumato
kinds of stones for stone carving
14. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Doric columns
Michelangelo
Ionic columns
analogous Colors
15. What is another work for low relief?
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Bas
Paint Extender
16. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Mayan
Safety glasses
Greenware
17. Robert Smithson
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Tapestry
Isocephaly
constructed the Spiral Jetty
18. Gray made by mixing complements
chromatic gray
Julio Gonzalez
binder
Barabara Krugel
19. Possin was a French painter in the classical style.Themes of tragedy and death are prevalent in Poussin's work.[13] Et in Arcadia ego - a subject he painted twice (second version is seen at right) - exemplifies his cerebral approach. In this composit
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20. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Rodin
Greenware
Shade
Stoneware properties
21. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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22. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Tint
Tenebrism
Color field painting artists
Basquiat
23. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
Scoring
Design Principles
Rococo
stain glass in a cathedral
24. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Parchment
Crenellation
Known Rodin prints
Principle of Art
25. 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
Esquisse
Scoring
weft
26. What color do two secondary colors make?
Elements of Art
Known Rodin prints
Rabbit Skin Glue
Brown
27. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Assemblage
vehicle
Chiaroscuro
Van Der Zee
28. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
value
Color field painting
intermediate colors
Batik
29. 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).
Neoclassical
Bas
Egg Tempera
Rodin
30. A dominant idea or central theme
Motif
slip
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
value
31. Who said ' less is more'?
Isocephaly
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
William Blake
Scoring
32. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Fire clay
Charcoal pen
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Ceramic glaze
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
Equipment used in oil painting
Dagyuerrotype
frisket
34. Most common oil in oil paints
Linseed oil
Designed the Barcelona chair
Monochrome printing
Romantic Era
35. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Artist Proof
Monochrome printing
Romanesque Cathedrals
Appropriation Art
36. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Water
weft
Lotus postition
Yarn
37. 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
Baroque painting
Acrylic paint
Encaustic
Dagyuerrotype
38. 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
Sfumato
Pumice
Facing forward and stiff
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
39. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Rough paper
Describe the process of fresco
Artists associated with Pointillism
Women artist of the 19th century
40. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
gesso
I.M. Pei
Forms of Charcoal
Design Principles
41. 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
Color field painting
Elements of Art
Carving Tools
42. ...
Lotus postition
Pastel
Doric columns
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
43. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
Parchment
gesso
Tint
Rotunda
44. 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
Cast concrete - modeling
Artist Proof
Design Principles
Tenebrism
45. 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
Designed the Barcelona chair
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Charcoal pen
Carving Tools
46. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
Corinthian columns
three point perspective
Gel medium
Lotus postition
47. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
nave
Adena Indian habitats
Rough paper
Encaustic
48. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
The Renaissance
Romanesque
Sulfur
Environmental Art
49. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Pointillism
Acrylic paint
Rough paper
modeling
50. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Gothic Cathedrals
Albert Durer
Linear perspective
Printmaking Techniques