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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. 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).
David Hockney
Egg Tempera
Tenebrism
Safety glasses
2. 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
Baroque painting
gouache
Brown
Fire clay
3. 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
Meyer Schapiro
Used to protect pastel artwork
Dome
Rococo
4. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Corinthian columns
'fat over lean'
Another term used for buddhist temple
Value
5. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Romantic Era
intaglio
Rice paper
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
6. 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.
Baroque painting
Islam art
Trompe - l'oil
wedging the clay
7. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Wedging
Parchment
Social Realism
Bas
8. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Monochrome printing
value
binder
9. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
Printmaking Techniques
Gothic Cathedrals
gouache
Appropriation Art
10. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
stain glass in a cathedral
Tapestry
African Benin Sculputure
Rembrandt
11. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Used to protect pastel artwork
Environmental Art
Georgian Style
warp
12. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
Chiaroscuro
Corinthian columns
African Benin Sculputure
Frida Kahlo
13. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Charcoal pen
Cement
Scoring
Paint Extender
14. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Michelangelo
Gothic Cathedrals
Rodin
Women artist of the 19th century
15. Pagoda
Another term used for buddhist temple
Equipment used in oil painting
Hagia Sophia
wedging the clay
16. A painting technique in which - as the name suggests - a little bit of paint is put on a dry brush. When applied - it produces a broken - scratchy effect.
Thomas Gainsborough
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
dry - brushing
Artists associated with Pointillism
17. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
Romantic Era
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
analogous Colors
Turpentine
18. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
nave
Armature
African masks
Fire clay
19. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
Depression era Artists
aquatint
Degas and Cassett
Jewelry tools
20. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
film speed
frisket
Romanesque Cathedrals
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
21. The genre of painting based on using the camera and photographs to gather information and then from this information - creating a painting that appears to be very realistic like a photograph.
Brushed used in oil painting
dry - brushing
Croquis
Photorealism
22. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Hardbrick
Emphasis
Barabara Krugel
Wood and bronze
23. Most common oil in oil paints
Cast concrete - modeling
Linseed oil
Assemblage
Armature
24. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Monochrome printing
Encaustic
Pointillism
Color field painting artists
25. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
Brushed used in oil painting
Scoring
three point perspective
Tapestry
26. AP on an art product means what
Artist Proof
Titan's key works
slip
film speed
27. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Frottage
Appropriation Art
Encaustic
Gothic Cathedrals
28. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
Gothic Cathedrals
Neoclassical
intermediate colors
Used to protect pastel artwork
29. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Palace of Versaille
Lotus postition
Social Murals
Cement
30. What color do two secondary colors make?
Tapestry
Rodin
Brown
gesso
31. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Another term used for buddhist temple
Japanese art and buildings
Rabbit Skin Glue
Stoneware
32. Example of baroque architecture
Acrylic paint
Charcoal pen
Impasto
Palace of Versaille
33. Woven wall hangings.
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Tapestry
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Paint Extender
34. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
stain glass in a cathedral
Joseph Beuys
gesso
Assemblage
35. 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
Water
Jewelry tools
Elements of Art
36. Who made large portraits of friends?
Safety glasses
slip
David Hockney
Egg Tempera
37. 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)
Mississippian
Tenebrism
Value
38. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
kinds of stones for stone carving
weft
vehicle
Depression era Artists
39. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
Cast concrete - modeling
Color field painting artists
stain glass in a cathedral
Depression art
40. 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
Emphasis
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Depression era Artists
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
41. Sculptor. Major Work: The Thinker - a naturalist - less concerned with monumental expression than with character and emotion. Departing with centuries of tradition - he turned away from the idealism of the Greeks - and the decorative beauty of the Ba
Gothic Cathedrals
Rodin
nave
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
42. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
Depression era Artists
Jewelry tools
William Blake
Gel medium
43. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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44. 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
modeling
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Joseph Beuys
Romantic Era
45. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Facing forward and stiff
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Ceramic glaze
Grisaille
46. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Ionic columns
Dome
Linseed oil
film speed
47. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Embroidery
the golden section (architecture)
Brown
Linear perspective
48. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Principle of Art
Depression art
Frottage
49. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Shutter Speed
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
modeling
Fire clay
50. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
warp
Rough paper
I.M. Pei
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio