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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. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
Crenellation
Color field painting artists
aquatint
The post - and - lintel system
2. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Ionic columns
Social Murals
Adena Indian habitats
Equipment used in oil painting
3. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Doric columns
Color field painting
Japanese art and buildings
Georgian Style
4. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Home Insurance Building in NYC
stain glass in a cathedral
Design Elements
Georgian Style
5. The principle in oil painting that suggests each layer of paint should contain more oil than the one beneath. Awareness of this concept helps ensure permanence.
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6. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Joseph Beuys
Rough paper
Wood and bronze
Doric columns
7. Example of baroque architecture
Grisaille
Rotunda
Palace of Versaille
Printmaking Techniques
8. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Design Principles
Forms of Charcoal
Depth of Field
Baroque painting
9. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Mayan
Isocephaly
Degas and Cassett
Neoclassical
10. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Known Rodin prints
Frida Kahlo
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
weft
11. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Aperture
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Environmental Art
Meyer Schapiro
12. 3X 5300 pixels
intermediate colors
best resolution in a digital photo?
dry - brushing
modeling
13. rayons resistant to what?
Pointillism
Water
Thomas Gainsborough
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
14. Used in water printing
Photorealism
African Benin Sculputure
Acrylic paint
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
15. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Esquisse
Collage
Describe the process of fresco
Facing forward and stiff
16. 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
Rodin
Julio Gonzalez
Color field painting
Pastel
17. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
three point perspective
Impasto
Value
Romanesque Cathedrals
18. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Loom
Pastel
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Mayan
19. 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.
David Hockney
Water
Embroidery
Color field painting
20. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
kinds of stones for stone carving
Titan's key works
Column of Trajan
CMYK
21. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Rabbit Skin Glue
scumbling
Rotunda
Parchment
22. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Safety glasses
Women artist of the 19th century
Social Murals
Thomas Gainsborough
23. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Pointillism
intaglio
Stoneware properties
24. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Acrylic paint
Women artist of the 19th century
frisket
25. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Dry Point
megalith
frisket
26. The central area of a church
Designed the Barcelona chair
Frida Kahlo
nave
Ionic columns
27. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Shade
weft
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Basic Elements of Sculpture
28. Fix
Appropriation Art
Yarn
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Used to protect pastel artwork
29. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
Hagia Sophia
Corinthian columns
Photorealism
scumbling
30. 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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31. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
Color field painting artists
Wedging
Acrylic paint
gouache
32. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Turpentine
Social Realism
CMYK
Dome
33. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
Collage
I.M. Pei
Charcoal pen
Romantic Era
34. 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.
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
dry - brushing
film speed
Pastel
35. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
Pumice
Tapestry
Stoneware
African masks
36. 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)
Emphasis
Color field painting
Armature
37. ...
gesso
Monochrome printing
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
binder
38. Continuous frieze
Rotunda
Column of Trajan
Rococo
Batik
39. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Rembrandt
Ceramic glaze
wedging the clay
Basic Elements of Sculpture
40. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Shade
Cast concrete - modeling
African Benin Sculputure
Photogravure
41. Air - dry unfired clay
Ceramic glaze
CMYK
Principle of Art
Greenware
42. 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.
Pointillism
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
wedging the clay
Photorealism
43. 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
Shutter Speed
Pointillism
Gothic Cathedrals
Design Principles
44. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
The post - and - lintel system
slip
Mayan
Croquis
45. 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
Kinetic art
gouache
Georgian Style
46. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Degas and Cassett
Camera Obscura
Esquisse
Another term used for buddhist temple
47. 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
Depression era Artists
Palace of Versaille
The Renaissance
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
48. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Chiaroscuro
Artist Proof
Another term used for buddhist temple
Women artist of the 19th century
49. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Kinetic art
Cast concrete - modeling
Doric columns
Isocephaly
50. Gouge and chisel
Carving Tools
Encaustic
Yarn
analogous Colors