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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
Enameling
binder
Linear perspective
wedging the clay
2. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
analogous Colors
Design Principles
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Rodin
3. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
Kinetic art
Stoneware properties
film speed
Neoclassical
4. Neo expressionist artist - Jean - Michel Basquiat was an American painter who rose to fame in the 1980s - and was the first African - American artist to gain international acclaim. His emotionally - charged paintings gave rise to graffiti art and the
stain glass in a cathedral
Corinthian columns
Romanesque
Basquiat
5. 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.
Film Speed
Kinetic art
Camera Obscura
Dagyuerrotype
6. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Julio Gonzalez
Brushed used in oil painting
Neoclassical
Yarn
7. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
Croquis
Corinthian columns
dry - brushing
Monochrome printing
8. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
CMYK
Thomas Gainsborough
gesso
9. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
Pointillism
intaglio
Camera Obscura
Rough paper
10. Gray made by mixing complements
Jewelry tools
chromatic gray
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Carving Tools
11. 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
chromatic gray
Shade
Linseed oil
12. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Loom
Kinetic art
Ceramic glaze
Artist Proof
13. Symmetrical balance
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14. Example of baroque architecture
Turpentine
Egg Tempera
Palace of Versaille
Photogravure
15. rayons resistant to what?
stain glass in a cathedral
Appropriation Art
Value
Water
16. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Designed the Barcelona chair
megalith
Known Rodin prints
Dry Point
17. To make a quick sketch
Women artist of the 19th century
African Benin Sculputure
Julio Gonzalez
Croquis
18. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Tint
Rococo
binder
Shade
19. 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
Mayan
Rodin
Rotunda
Brushed used in oil painting
20. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Thomas Gainsborough
Social Realism
Rococo
Design Principles
21. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Rice paper
Tapestry
Emphasis
Environmental Art
22. Continuous frieze
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Column of Trajan
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Mayan
23. 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
Parchment
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Appropriation Art
24. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Charcoal pen
Wedging
Grisaille
Turpentine
25. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Doric columns
Facing forward and stiff
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Impasto
26. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
dry - brushing
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
analogous Colors
Frida Kahlo
27. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
rhythm
Frida Kahlo
Depression era Artists
Gothic Cathedrals
28. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Tapestry
Camera Obscura
Bas
Column of Trajan
29. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Environmental Art
Design Elements
The Renaissance
Julio Gonzalez
30. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Artists associated with Pointillism
Shutter Speed
Tapestry
31. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Albert Durer
Ceramic - Sgraffito
David Hockney
value
32. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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33. 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
Rough paper
Baroque painting
Rembrandt
Designed the Barcelona chair
34. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Joseph Beuys
David Hockney
Ionic columns
binder
35. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Emphasis
Social Murals
Doric columns
Facing forward and stiff
36. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
best resolution in a digital photo?
binder
Georgian Style
Tessera
37. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
Esquisse
aquatint
Principle of Art
Water
38. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Trompe - l'oil
Japanese art and buildings
Stoneware properties
Mississippian
39. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Assemblage
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Photogravure
Dagyuerrotype
40. 3X 5300 pixels
best resolution in a digital photo?
Cast concrete - modeling
Isocephaly
three point perspective
41. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Gothic Cathedrals
weft
Esquisse
warp
42. 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'.
rhythm
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
stain glass in a cathedral
Tenebrism
43. Rene Magritte
Thomas Gainsborough
Photorealism
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
A black line
44. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Charcoal pen
intaglio
weft
Dry Point
45. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
Shade
Design Elements
Jewelry tools
The post - and - lintel system
46. 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.
Shade
Neoclassical
Grisaille
dry - brushing
47. Huge stones
megalith
Rembrandt
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Neoclassical
48. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Tint
Baroque painting
Safety glasses
Rough paper
49. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
Thomas Gainsborough
Adena Indian habitats
warp
intermediate colors
50. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Trompe - l'oil
Designed the Barcelona chair
Grisaille