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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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2. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Hagia Sophia
A black line
Film Speed
Joseph Beuys
3. 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
Photorealism
Dagyuerrotype
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Baroque painting
4. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Embroidery
Shade
Environmental Art
Brown
5. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
David Hockney
Tapestry
Paint Extender
Environmental Art
6. 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
frisket
Romanesque
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Hardbrick
7. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
Lotus postition
Tint
Sulfur
Shutter Speed
8. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Ceramic glaze
Stepped Pyramid Temples
'fat over lean'
Shutter Speed
9. rayons resistant to what?
Collage
Mississippian
Water
kinds of stones for stone carving
10. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
aquatint
Tempera paint
Camera Obscura
intaglio
11. What city had the first skyscraper?
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Loom
binder
Dome
12. 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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13. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Rice paper
Photogravure
Facing forward and stiff
Describe the process of fresco
14. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
stain glass in a cathedral
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Motif
Home Insurance Building in NYC
15. 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.
Aperture
Rotunda
Emphasis
Value
16. 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
frisket
Column of Trajan
Baroque painting
Brown
17. Known by its massive quality - its thick walls - round arches - sturdy piers - groin vaults - large towers and decorative arcading. Each building has clearly defined forms and they are frequently of very regular - symmetrical plan so that the overall
Wood and bronze
Romanesque Cathedrals
Photorealism
Islam art
18. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Frida Kahlo
analogous Colors
Water
Design Principles
19. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
Environmental Art
Artist Proof
Kinetic art
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
20. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Gel medium
Loom
Rabbit Skin Glue
Dry Point
21. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Meyer Schapiro
Frottage
Encaustic
William Blake
22. Focused on the depiction of patterns and Arabic calligraphy - rather than on figures - because it is feared by many Muslims that the depiction of the human form is idolatry and thereby a sin against God - forbidden in the Qur'an.
Islam art
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Design Elements
Environmental Art
23. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
scumbling
Known Rodin prints
Artist Proof
Doric columns
24. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
Embroidery
frisket
Stoneware properties
Egg Tempera
25. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Cement
Paint Extender
Pointillism
Stoneware
26. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
Water
Color field painting artists
Pointillism
Describe the process of fresco
27. 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
Tapestry
Photorealism
Albert Durer
28. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Paint Extender
Armature
Tenebrism
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
29. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Dagyuerrotype
Printmaking Techniques
Ceramic glaze
weft
30. 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
Japanese art and buildings
Film Speed
vehicle
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
31. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Social Murals
Wedging
Shade
Islam art
32. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Photorealism
Degas and Cassett
Isocephaly
Frida Kahlo
33. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
wedging the clay
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Linear perspective
Dome
34. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Crenellation
Social Murals
Bas
Facing forward and stiff
35. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Adena Indian habitats
Mayan
Scoring
Isocephaly
36. Made out of Metal
African Benin Sculputure
Sfumato
Grisaille
Neoclassical
37. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Pop artists
Julio Gonzalez
Depth of Field
Designed the Barcelona chair
38. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Linear perspective
Pumice
Romanesque
39. 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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40. Who said ' less is more'?
Trompe - l'oil
Color field painting
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Gothic Cathedrals
41. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
Turpentine
Grisaille
film speed
balance
42. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
wedging the clay
Neoclassical
Artists associated with Pointillism
43. Gray made by mixing complements
chromatic gray
stain glass in a cathedral
Parchment
Linseed oil
44. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Collage
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Value
45. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Isocephaly
Neoclassical
Wood and bronze
46. Fix
Used to protect pastel artwork
Aperture
Sfumato
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
47. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
gouache
Rough paper
Michelangelo
scumbling
48. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Doric columns
Column of Trajan
Environmental Art
Shade
49. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Rough paper
Meyer Schapiro
Designed the Barcelona chair
Pastel
50. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
A black line
dry - brushing
Ceramic glaze
Ceramic - Sgraffito