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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Artist Proof
Value
Rice paper
Mayan
2. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Designed the Barcelona chair
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Tapestry
3. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
stain glass in a cathedral
weft
Jewelry tools
Depression art
4. 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.
Baroque painting
Stoneware
Water
Albert Durer
5. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Depression art
best resolution in a digital photo?
Brushed used in oil painting
Gel medium
6. Rene Magritte
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Baroque painting
Column of Trajan
Adena Indian habitats
7. What color do two secondary colors make?
Equipment used in oil painting
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Egg Tempera
Brown
8. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Pointillism
Assemblage
Stoneware properties
Meyer Schapiro
9. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
African masks
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
stain glass in a cathedral
Gel medium
10. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Rice paper
Photogravure
Brushed used in oil painting
Charcoal pen
11. rayons resistant to what?
Meyer Schapiro
Environmental Art
Water
David Hockney
12. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Romanesque Cathedrals
Charcoal pen
Linseed oil
Linear perspective
13. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Crenellation
Photogravure
Safety glasses
Paint Extender
14. Hard - dense firebrick generally used only in high - stress areas of kiln (floor - burner ports - flues - bagwall) and for corrosive firing processes (salt - soda - wood).
David Hockney
Tessera
Hardbrick
Pumice
15. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Tapestry
Michelangelo
Environmental Art
nave
16. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
I.M. Pei
Greenware
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Design Principles
17. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Doric columns
Designed the Barcelona chair
Pop artists
Dry Point
18. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Rembrandt
Jewelry tools
Gel medium
Grisaille
19. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
Color field painting artists
Sfumato
Monochrome printing
wedging the clay
20. 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.
Rabbit Skin Glue
Social Realism
Printmaking Techniques
balance
21. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Degas and Cassett
Hagia Sophia
Egg Tempera
frisket
22. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Hardbrick
Pop artists
value
Rough paper
23. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
kinds of stones for stone carving
Basquiat
Collage
Sulfur
24. Known for stone. The term was invented by 19th century art historians - especially for Romanesque architecture - which retained many basic features of Roman architectural style - most notably round - headed arches - but also barrel vaults - apses - a
Romanesque
Elements of Art
Social Realism
Sulfur
25. 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
African Benin Sculputure
Another term used for buddhist temple
Gel medium
26. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
Acrylic paint
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Isocephaly
film speed
27. Air - dry unfired clay
Hardbrick
Greenware
Grisaille
Palace of Versaille
28. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Grisaille
Depression era Artists
Julio Gonzalez
Facing forward and stiff
29. Painter and printmaker of Romantism.Held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity - and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. Works: The Song of Los - The Lovers Whirlwind - Ancient of Days
William Blake
Sfumato
Greenware
Social Murals
30. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
Japanese art and buildings
Rodin
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
vehicle
31. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Gel medium
Linear perspective
Dry Point
Rotunda
32. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Chiaroscuro
Isocephaly
Elements of Art
Adena Indian habitats
33. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Julio Gonzalez
Used to protect pastel artwork
Yarn
Grisaille
34. 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
Meyer Schapiro
slip
Aperture
35. 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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36. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Charcoal pen
best resolution in a digital photo?
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Rabbit Skin Glue
37. Made out of Metal
African Benin Sculputure
frisket
Titan's key works
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
38. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
analogous Colors
Paint Extender
gesso
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
39. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Wedging
Tint
Artist Proof
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
40. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
rhythm
Grisaille
Titan's key works
Japanese art and buildings
41. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
intermediate colors
Sulfur
Motif
Artists associated with Pointillism
42. To make a quick sketch
Jewelry tools
Rice paper
Armature
Croquis
43. Who said ' less is more'?
Ceramic glaze
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
44. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
stain glass in a cathedral
Julio Gonzalez
Film Speed
Shade
45. What is another work for low relief?
Joseph Beuys
Value
Degas and Cassett
Bas
46. ...
Value
Depth of Field
Bas
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
47. 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
Romanesque Cathedrals
three point perspective
48. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Rococo
Palace of Versaille
Dry Point
Photorealism
49. 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
Meyer Schapiro
Fire clay
Baroque painting
Describe the process of fresco
50. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
David Hockney
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Hagia Sophia
Doric columns