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Praxis 2 Art
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1. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
rhythm
Pop artists
Neoclassical
Tapestry
2. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Rotunda
the golden section (architecture)
Film Speed
Sfumato
3. 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
Color field painting artists
Linear perspective
Joseph Beuys
Embroidery
4. Origin is Mayan
Artists associated with Pointillism
Mississippian
Printmaking Techniques
Stepped Pyramid Temples
5. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
megalith
Japanese art and buildings
Pumice
Sulfur
6. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Stoneware properties
Artist Proof
Artists associated with Pointillism
Rococo
7. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Social Murals
Shade
Known Rodin prints
Romanesque
8. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Hardbrick
Artist Proof
Environmental Art
Meyer Schapiro
9. 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).
Frida Kahlo
Hardbrick
Brushed used in oil painting
Rotunda
10. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
William Blake
Pumice
Known Rodin prints
aquatint
11. 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).
Croquis
scumbling
Neoclassical
Egg Tempera
12. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Yarn
three point perspective
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Printmaking Techniques
13. 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'.
Armature
binder
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Stepped Pyramid Temples
14. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
Palace of Versaille
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
film speed
slip
15. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Gel medium
binder
stain glass in a cathedral
16. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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17. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
gouache
Romantic Era
Julio Gonzalez
CMYK
18. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Describe the process of fresco
Grisaille
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Sfumato
19. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Neoclassical
Rembrandt
20. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
scumbling
Pumice
William Blake
Rembrandt
21. Woven wall hangings.
Tapestry
Impasto
Brown
Brushed used in oil painting
22. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Stepped Pyramid Temples
gouache
Parchment
Home Insurance Building in NYC
23. 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
intermediate colors
the golden section (architecture)
African masks
Camera Obscura
24. Huge stones
megalith
intermediate colors
Esquisse
Facing forward and stiff
25. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
Romanesque Cathedrals
Tenebrism
Cement
modeling
26. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
Georgian Style
Color field painting
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Depression era Artists
27. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Shutter Speed
Ionic columns
Brushed used in oil painting
slip
28. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Degas and Cassett
Design Principles
intermediate colors
Ionic columns
29. 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.
balance
Brushed used in oil painting
Photorealism
Van Der Zee
30. Meaning to rub a crayon or other tool onto paper or other material - which is placed onto a textured surface - in order to create the texture of that surface on the paper.
Rotunda
aquatint
Frottage
Islam art
31. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Elements of Art
Known Rodin prints
gouache
Loom
32. Who said ' less is more'?
Georgian Style
Enameling
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
33. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Charcoal pen
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Collage
Rough paper
34. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Degas and Cassett
Aperture
35. 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
Basquiat
Charcoal pen
Enameling
Doric columns
36. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Tessera
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Loom
Mississippian
37. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Barabara Krugel
A black line
Tenebrism
gesso
38. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Croquis
dry - brushing
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Brushed used in oil painting
39. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Value
Rococo
Depression art
intermediate colors
40. ...
Jewelry tools
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Rodin
Elements of Art
41. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Acrylic paint
Linear perspective
Charcoal pen
42. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Cement
Shutter Speed
Doric columns
Appropriation Art
43. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
film speed
Neoclassical
Scoring
Meyer Schapiro
44. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Tenebrism
Tint
Hardbrick
45. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
vehicle
Degas and Cassett
rhythm
Jewelry tools
46. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Tempera paint
Titan's key works
gesso
Georgian Style
47. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Mississippian
Romantic Era
Appropriation Art
48. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Armature
A black line
Motif
Enameling
49. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Motif
Brown
Grisaille
Wood and bronze
50. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Thomas Gainsborough
Social Murals
Forms of Charcoal