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Praxis 2 Art
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1. Came in response to the darkness and heaviness of Baroque art - but did continue many of the ideals specified during the 17th century. Rococo related much more to decorative shapes as well as the natural and organic. Swirling shapes and asymmetrical
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Rembrandt
Rococo
William Blake
2. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Social Murals
Kinetic art
Chiaroscuro
Dagyuerrotype
3. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Another term used for buddhist temple
value
weft
Equipment used in oil painting
4. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Photogravure
Designed the Barcelona chair
Forms of Charcoal
Column of Trajan
5. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Safety glasses
Another term used for buddhist temple
warp
6. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Armature
Barabara Krugel
Batik
Facing forward and stiff
7. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Gel medium
Hagia Sophia
David Hockney
Romantic Era
8. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light. More sensitive (faster) films have higher ISO numbers and require less exposure in order to make a properly - exposed picture.
Color field painting artists
Pop artists
Film Speed
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
9. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Social Realism
three point perspective
Gouache
Brushed used in oil painting
10. Who made large portraits of friends?
David Hockney
Forms of Charcoal
Social Realism
Tapestry
11. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Safety glasses
Georgian Style
Wedging
Social Murals
12. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Julio Gonzalez
Crenellation
balance
13. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Scoring
Yarn
14. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Baroque painting
Linseed oil
Encaustic
Frottage
15. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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16. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
three point perspective
Embroidery
Tenebrism
Batik
17. 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
David Hockney
Cement
Film Speed
18. ...
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Pumice
Julio Gonzalez
Depression art
19. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Gouache
weft
Design Principles
Wood and bronze
20. What color do two secondary colors make?
Brown
Romanesque
Carving Tools
Enameling
21. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
Tint
African masks
Tessera
Tapestry
22. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
binder
African masks
Carving Tools
Tapestry
23. 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
Printmaking Techniques
Jewelry tools
Photorealism
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
24. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Linseed oil
Stoneware
Cast concrete - modeling
Chiaroscuro
25. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Paint Extender
Armature
best resolution in a digital photo?
Design Elements
26. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Rembrandt
Doric columns
Fire clay
stain glass in a cathedral
27. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Esquisse
Greenware
Color field painting
Hardbrick
28. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Trompe - l'oil
intaglio
Michelangelo
Pumice
29. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Elements of Art
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Rough paper
Color field painting artists
30. 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.
Gel medium
Esquisse
balance
film speed
31. Huge stones
Collage
megalith
Shade
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
32. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Trompe - l'oil
Brushed used in oil painting
Grisaille
Ionic columns
33. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
A black line
Tapestry
stain glass in a cathedral
Trompe - l'oil
34. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Shade
Encaustic
Dome
Stoneware properties
35. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Linseed oil
Isocephaly
Romanesque
Equipment used in oil painting
36. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Barabara Krugel
scumbling
Meyer Schapiro
Hardbrick
37. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
Another term used for buddhist temple
Appropriation Art
Rough paper
The Renaissance
38. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Doric columns
Tapestry
Titan's key works
Stoneware
39. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Yarn
Mayan
Designed the Barcelona chair
Gel medium
40. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Meyer Schapiro
Water
Van Der Zee
Describe the process of fresco
41. 3X 5300 pixels
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
best resolution in a digital photo?
Crenellation
slip
42. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Water
weft
Pastel
Camera Obscura
43. Air - dry unfired clay
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Cast concrete - modeling
Greenware
Frottage
44. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
Depression era Artists
Rice paper
Color field painting artists
Abstract Expressionist Artists
45. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Paint Extender
Tenebrism
Shade
Barabara Krugel
46. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
Mississippian
Ceramic glaze
Women artist of the 19th century
warp
47. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Lotus postition
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Paint Extender
Greenware
48. A dominant idea or central theme
Social Murals
Tessera
Motif
Frottage
49. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Tint
Embroidery
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
50. Used in water printing
Design Elements
Acrylic paint
intaglio
Wood and bronze