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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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1. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Column of Trajan
Depression art
rhythm
Armature
2. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Van Der Zee
Degas and Cassett
Linear perspective
Appropriation Art
3. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
African Benin Sculputure
Pop artists
Esquisse
A black line
4. To make a quick sketch
Croquis
Color field painting
Barabara Krugel
stain glass in a cathedral
5. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Impasto
Gel medium
Pop artists
Value
6. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Sulfur
Esquisse
Gel medium
Home Insurance Building in NYC
7. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Romantic Era
megalith
Albert Durer
Dry Point
8. 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.
CMYK
three point perspective
Islam art
Sulfur
9. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Dagyuerrotype
Tessera
Hagia Sophia
Designed the Barcelona chair
10. 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.
Jewelry tools
vehicle
Embroidery
Thomas Gainsborough
11. 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
Barabara Krugel
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Safety glasses
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
12. Fix
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Used to protect pastel artwork
Rembrandt
Islam art
13. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Turpentine
Ionic columns
14. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
gesso
Linseed oil
Georgian Style
Barabara Krugel
15. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Corinthian columns
weft
Assemblage
Gouache
16. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Carving Tools
Tempera paint
Pumice
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
17. 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.
Stepped Pyramid Temples
chromatic gray
Julio Gonzalez
Aperture
18. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Barabara Krugel
balance
Dagyuerrotype
Rice paper
19. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
Islam art
vehicle
Basquiat
Color field painting
20. 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).
Collage
Hardbrick
Depression art
analogous Colors
21. 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.
Describe the process of fresco
Depression art
Film Speed
Michelangelo
22. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Stoneware
Loom
Tapestry
kinds of stones for stone carving
23. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Design Principles
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Design Elements
Abstract Expressionist Artists
24. 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
Romanesque Cathedrals
Brown
balance
David Hockney
25. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Dry Point
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Basquiat
Designed the Barcelona chair
26. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
slip
Tempera paint
Brushed used in oil painting
'fat over lean'
27. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
The post - and - lintel system
Rough paper
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Grisaille
28. 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
I.M. Pei
Joseph Beuys
Brown
The post - and - lintel system
29. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
Impasto
Mississippian
Corinthian columns
Dome
30. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Michelangelo
Charcoal pen
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Croquis
31. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Mississippian
Camera Obscura
Environmental Art
Rabbit Skin Glue
32. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Color field painting
Japanese art and buildings
Embroidery
Tessera
33. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
intermediate colors
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Crenellation
the golden section (architecture)
34. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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35. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Hagia Sophia
Rice paper
Rembrandt
Linseed oil
36. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Shutter Speed
Environmental Art
Facing forward and stiff
Rococo
37. Continuous frieze
nave
Stoneware
Column of Trajan
slip
38. A ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both. Ancient Ea ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the su
the golden section (architecture)
Degas and Cassett
three point perspective
Women artist of the 19th century
39. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
Kinetic art
Tapestry
binder
best resolution in a digital photo?
40. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
wedging the clay
Forms of Charcoal
modeling
chromatic gray
41. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
Enameling
The Renaissance
Tempera paint
Lotus postition
42. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Rotunda
modeling
Monochrome printing
Women artist of the 19th century
43. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
CMYK
weft
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
rhythm
44. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Photogravure
Embroidery
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Artists associated with Pointillism
45. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Joseph Beuys
Neoclassical
Photorealism
Forms of Charcoal
46. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Camera Obscura
dry - brushing
Monochrome printing
Shutter Speed
47. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Embroidery
intermediate colors
Rough paper
Describe the process of fresco
48. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Batik
Rabbit Skin Glue
Photogravure
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
49. What is another work for low relief?
Photorealism
Brown
chromatic gray
Bas
50. The laying of paint thickly
Gouache
Gel medium
Impasto
chromatic gray