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Praxis 2 Art
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1. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
The Renaissance
Batik
Baroque painting
Lotus postition
2. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Loom
Cement
gesso
3. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
binder
Enameling
Sulfur
Romantic Era
4. Robert Smithson
warp
Photorealism
Tapestry
constructed the Spiral Jetty
5. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Adena Indian habitats
weft
aquatint
Equipment used in oil painting
6. Meaning to rub a crayon or other tool onto paper or other material - which is placed onto a textured surface - in order to create the texture of that surface on the paper.
Corinthian columns
Frottage
Rembrandt
gouache
7. Air - dry unfired clay
Brown
Film Speed
Greenware
Basquiat
8. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Tempera paint
Doric columns
Dome
Printmaking Techniques
9. 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.
best resolution in a digital photo?
Tempera paint
Women artist of the 19th century
Enameling
10. 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.
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
balance
Chiaroscuro
'fat over lean'
11. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Scoring
African Benin Sculputure
Stoneware
Facing forward and stiff
12. A dominant idea or central theme
Motif
chromatic gray
Principle of Art
Armature
13. Used in water printing
wedging the clay
Acrylic paint
Thomas Gainsborough
Rough paper
14. 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.
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Motif
scumbling
analogous Colors
15. Fix
Impasto
Used to protect pastel artwork
Esquisse
Paint Extender
16. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
gouache
Gothic Cathedrals
Mayan
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
17. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Column of Trajan
Rough paper
Printmaking Techniques
Batik
18. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
The post - and - lintel system
I.M. Pei
Tempera paint
Rotunda
19. 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
Water
'fat over lean'
Tenebrism
Motif
20. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
three point perspective
Aperture
Depression art
21. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Rembrandt
Esquisse
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Wood and bronze
22. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
A black line
Rough paper
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Brown
23. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
film speed
Rotunda
Pointillism
Pastel
24. 3X 5300 pixels
Brushed used in oil painting
best resolution in a digital photo?
Stoneware
Hagia Sophia
25. rayons resistant to what?
Rembrandt
Water
Pumice
Barabara Krugel
26. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston
Rough paper
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Shutter Speed
Charcoal pen
27. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Esquisse
Mississippian
Trompe - l'oil
Isocephaly
28. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Paint Extender
Hardbrick
Design Principles
29. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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30. Symmetrical balance
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31. 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
'fat over lean'
Tenebrism
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
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'.
Rembrandt
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Tint
Meyer Schapiro
33. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Frottage
Artists associated with Pointillism
Hardbrick
Fire clay
34. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Encaustic
Facing forward and stiff
Jewelry tools
Ceramic glaze
35. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Scoring
Principle of Art
three point perspective
36. The central area of a church
nave
African masks
Degas and Cassett
Used to protect pastel artwork
37. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Depression era Artists
Camera Obscura
binder
Georgian Style
38. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
best resolution in a digital photo?
Gel medium
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Monochrome printing
39. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
Social Murals
Titan's key works
Gel medium
Corinthian columns
40. 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).
gesso
Shade
Brushed used in oil painting
Egg Tempera
41. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Armature
Environmental Art
Encaustic
scumbling
42. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Rabbit Skin Glue
Hardbrick
Water
Value
43. 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
Tapestry
Joseph Beuys
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Gouache
44. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Facing forward and stiff
Enameling
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Romanesque
45. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Safety glasses
Joseph Beuys
Dry Point
Gouache
46. 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).
Hardbrick
Elements of Art
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
intaglio
47. 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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48. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
The post - and - lintel system
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Bas
Croquis
49. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Chiaroscuro
Gel medium
Rodin
David Hockney
50. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Yarn
Equipment used in oil painting
Cement
Abstract Expressionist Artists