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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
Safety glasses
kinds of stones for stone carving
Carving Tools
Aperture
2. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
value
Corinthian columns
Column of Trajan
3. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
David Hockney
I.M. Pei
Artist Proof
Grisaille
4. 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
Tenebrism
Adena Indian habitats
Cast concrete - modeling
5. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Encaustic
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Color field painting
Barabara Krugel
6. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Gouache
Depression era Artists
Acrylic paint
Forms of Charcoal
7. Rene Magritte
Tempera paint
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
CMYK
Brushed used in oil painting
8. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Shade
Rembrandt
Fire clay
Doric columns
9. 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.
Photorealism
Doric columns
Greenware
Tint
10. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
Acrylic paint
Social Realism
Hagia Sophia
three point perspective
11. 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
nave
Dry Point
Tapestry
12. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Corinthian columns
stain glass in a cathedral
Wedging
Acrylic paint
13. Most common oil in oil paints
Assemblage
Used to protect pastel artwork
gesso
Linseed oil
14. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
modeling
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Mississippian
Fire clay
15. 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
Doric columns
Basquiat
Frida Kahlo
Egg Tempera
16. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
weft
Camera Obscura
Dry Point
Grisaille
17. 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
Rembrandt
Acrylic paint
Joseph Beuys
The post - and - lintel system
18. A dominant idea or central theme
Emphasis
Gothic Cathedrals
Motif
Photorealism
19. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
The Renaissance
Isocephaly
Lotus postition
Color field painting artists
20. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
Ionic columns
film speed
Tapestry
balance
21. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
Mississippian
Social Murals
Kinetic art
Egg Tempera
22. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
Pastel
vehicle
Motif
gouache
23. ...
Barabara Krugel
Sulfur
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
megalith
24. 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'.
Loom
Titan's key works
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
gouache
25. Continuous frieze
Camera Obscura
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Column of Trajan
Gouache
26. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Doric columns
Film Speed
Van Der Zee
Tessera
27. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Designed the Barcelona chair
Linear perspective
Paint Extender
Sulfur
28. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Cast concrete - modeling
Depth of Field
Mayan
Fire clay
29. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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30. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Pumice
Greenware
CMYK
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
31. Used in water printing
Lotus postition
warp
Acrylic paint
Appropriation Art
32. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Basquiat
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Julio Gonzalez
Isocephaly
33. 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.
Albert Durer
Used to protect pastel artwork
Principle of Art
Design Elements
34. 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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35. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Shade
Rabbit Skin Glue
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Mayan
36. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston
Abstract Expressionist Artists
chromatic gray
constructed the Spiral Jetty
African masks
37. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Mayan
Baroque painting
Mississippian
Another term used for buddhist temple
38. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Shade
Georgian Style
Frida Kahlo
Michelangelo
39. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
African masks
intermediate colors
Paint Extender
stain glass in a cathedral
40. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
Scoring
vehicle
Parchment
Assemblage
41. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Isocephaly
Armature
Value
Stepped Pyramid Temples
42. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Rice paper
Gouache
Esquisse
Trompe - l'oil
43. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
Stoneware properties
African Benin Sculputure
analogous Colors
Sfumato
44. 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.
balance
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
best resolution in a digital photo?
CMYK
45. Is a circle - shaped opening in a lens (a hole - really) through which light passes to strike the film. The size of the aperture is expressed as an f - number - like f/8 or f/11.
Ceramic glaze
Aperture
Another term used for buddhist temple
Designed the Barcelona chair
46. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
Rotunda
frisket
Tenebrism
Bas
47. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Color field painting artists
Georgian Style
Meyer Schapiro
Embroidery
48. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Adena Indian habitats
Environmental Art
Hagia Sophia
49. 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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50. 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
Meyer Schapiro
scumbling
Describe the process of fresco