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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. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston
best resolution in a digital photo?
Printmaking Techniques
Abstract Expressionist Artists
The Renaissance
2. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Enameling
Armature
Cement
Elements of Art
3. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
Social Realism
Jewelry tools
Gouache
Dome
4. A school - style - or method of painting - adopted chiefly by 17th - century Spanish and Neapolitan painters - esp Caravaggio - characterized by large areas of dark colours - usually relieved with a shaft of ligh
Paint Extender
Tenebrism
Tapestry
Yarn
5. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
Rotunda
three point perspective
Emphasis
kinds of stones for stone carving
6. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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7. 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.
Croquis
Frottage
Depression art
Forms of Charcoal
8. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Rembrandt
Crenellation
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Abstract Expressionist Artists
9. Painter and printmaker of Romantism.Held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity - and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. Works: The Song of Los - The Lovers Whirlwind - Ancient of Days
Dagyuerrotype
Kinetic art
William Blake
Lotus postition
10. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Loom
Corinthian columns
Water
Mayan
11. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Wood and bronze
Batik
Cast concrete - modeling
12. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Gel medium
Mayan
Wood and bronze
Safety glasses
13. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Encaustic
Romanesque
gouache
constructed the Spiral Jetty
14. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
Depression era Artists
Dome
Women artist of the 19th century
Batik
15. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Design Elements
Lotus postition
Camera Obscura
balance
16. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Elements of Art
Rodin
Safety glasses
Isocephaly
17. What is another work for low relief?
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Bas
Adena Indian habitats
Tapestry
18. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Facing forward and stiff
Dagyuerrotype
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Ceramic - Sgraffito
19. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
warp
Monochrome printing
Cast concrete - modeling
Sulfur
20. What goes horizontal across a loom?
value
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Water
Yarn
21. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Artists associated with Pointillism
Sfumato
Fire clay
intaglio
22. A dominant idea or central theme
Known Rodin prints
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Motif
23. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Design Principles
Ionic columns
Chiaroscuro
Social Murals
24. 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
Color field painting artists
Rodin
Rococo
scumbling
25. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Gouache
value
David Hockney
film speed
26. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Safety glasses
Designed the Barcelona chair
Wedging
Wood and bronze
27. 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.
Linseed oil
Gouache
aquatint
dry - brushing
28. Considered one of the greatest printmakers of all time. Working with both woodcuts and copper engravings - he attained a level of detail that is virtually unsurpassed.
nave
Albert Durer
Principle of Art
Rotunda
29. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Elements of Art
the golden section (architecture)
Isocephaly
African Benin Sculputure
30. ...
CMYK
vehicle
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Photogravure
31. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Cast concrete - modeling
Used to protect pastel artwork
nave
'fat over lean'
32. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
frisket
Van Der Zee
Encaustic
Stoneware properties
33. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
The post - and - lintel system
gouache
Linear perspective
34. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Impasto
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Rotunda
Egg Tempera
35. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Charcoal pen
Value
A black line
Emphasis
36. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
vehicle
Rotunda
analogous Colors
37. 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'.
frisket
Artist Proof
Ceramic glaze
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
38. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Appropriation Art
Rice paper
Esquisse
Rotunda
39. Is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions.
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40. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Rough paper
modeling
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Encaustic
41. 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.
rhythm
Aperture
Photorealism
Enameling
42. To make a quick sketch
Croquis
Stoneware properties
Meyer Schapiro
megalith
43. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
William Blake
Shade
Color field painting artists
Home Insurance Building in NYC
44. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
Aperture
Palace of Versaille
Van Der Zee
rhythm
45. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Camera Obscura
Gothic Cathedrals
Enameling
Monochrome printing
46. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Collage
Photogravure
Tessera
47. Italian term meaning smoke - describing a very delicate gradation of light and shade in the modeling of figures; often ascribed to Da Vinci's work.
Cement
William Blake
Monochrome printing
Sfumato
48. Robert Smithson
Collage
Tenebrism
Water
constructed the Spiral Jetty
49. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Van Der Zee
Equipment used in oil painting
African Benin Sculputure
Gel medium
50. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
I.M. Pei
Rice paper
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