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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
African masks
Egg Tempera
Monochrome printing
scumbling
2. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Brushed used in oil painting
Armature
Cement
Cast concrete - modeling
3. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Corinthian columns
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Facing forward and stiff
4. 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
Brushed used in oil painting
Motif
Islam art
5. 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.
Stoneware properties
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Islam art
Degas and Cassett
6. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Isocephaly
Crenellation
Dagyuerrotype
Hardbrick
7. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Jewelry tools
Batik
Barabara Krugel
Doric columns
8. 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
Stoneware properties
Romanesque
analogous Colors
Julio Gonzalez
9. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
Tapestry
Meyer Schapiro
Pastel
Color field painting artists
10. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Design Principles
Enameling
Van Der Zee
Equipment used in oil painting
11. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Color field painting
African masks
Frida Kahlo
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
12. Used in water printing
Principle of Art
Acrylic paint
aquatint
slip
13. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Designed the Barcelona chair
Doric columns
Dome
Gouache
14. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Cast concrete - modeling
Pastel
Rococo
Romanesque
15. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Safety glasses
Paint Extender
Rough paper
aquatint
16. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
Kinetic art
Mayan
Depression art
Chiaroscuro
17. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
African Benin Sculputure
Greenware
Social Realism
Linear perspective
18. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Batik
Film Speed
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Hagia Sophia
19. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
Principle of Art
Tapestry
Corinthian columns
Another term used for buddhist temple
20. Air - dry unfired clay
Scoring
Greenware
Crenellation
Mississippian
21. 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
Water
Joseph Beuys
Color field painting
Encaustic
22. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
analogous Colors
the golden section (architecture)
Pastel
Gothic Cathedrals
23. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
Design Elements
stain glass in a cathedral
best resolution in a digital photo?
Dome
24. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Rodin
Facing forward and stiff
Meyer Schapiro
Degas and Cassett
25. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Enameling
Rembrandt
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Facing forward and stiff
26. The central area of a church
nave
Depression era Artists
Egg Tempera
chromatic gray
27. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
Stoneware
Depression era Artists
gesso
Value
28. 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.
Artist Proof
Embroidery
Romantic Era
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
29. ...
Elements of Art
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Embroidery
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
30. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Photogravure
Artists associated with Pointillism
Grisaille
Linseed oil
31. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
warp
Social Realism
Environmental Art
Cement
32. Continuous frieze
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Depression era Artists
slip
Column of Trajan
33. What color do two secondary colors make?
Printmaking Techniques
Carving Tools
Shutter Speed
Brown
34. 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
William Blake
Michelangelo
Joseph Beuys
Romanesque Cathedrals
35. 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
Shutter Speed
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Islam art
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
36. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
Brown
wedging the clay
kinds of stones for stone carving
Home Insurance Building in NYC
37. What is another work for low relief?
Batik
Fire clay
Bas
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
38. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Thomas Gainsborough
Dry Point
nave
39. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Greenware
Linear perspective
Adena Indian habitats
Home Insurance Building in NYC
40. rayons resistant to what?
I.M. Pei
Water
Yarn
Kinetic art
41. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Depth of Field
nave
Fire clay
Ceramic - Sgraffito
42. Example of baroque architecture
Palace of Versaille
Shutter Speed
Pointillism
Artist Proof
43. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Pop artists
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Design Principles
Neoclassical
44. A form of painting in which tiny dots of primary - colors are used to generate secondary colors. It is very similar to Divisionism - except that where Divisionism is concerned with color theory - Pointillism is more focused on the specific style of b
Michelangelo
Pointillism
warp
Adena Indian habitats
45. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Designed the Barcelona chair
Depression era Artists
Aperture
Design Elements
46. 3X 5300 pixels
Grisaille
best resolution in a digital photo?
Corinthian columns
Palace of Versaille
47. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Rococo
Chiaroscuro
wedging the clay
48. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Brown
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Tapestry
Charcoal pen
49. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
intermediate colors
Artists associated with Pointillism
A black line
weft
50. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Dome
Stoneware
Neoclassical
Gothic Cathedrals