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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Is a circle - shaped opening in a lens (a hole - really) through which light passes to strike the film. The size of the aperture is expressed as an f - number - like f/8 or f/11.






2. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome






3. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel






4. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.






5. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.






6. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.






7. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.






8. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.






9. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?






10. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution






11. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel






12. 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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13. What is another work for low relief?






14. Polystyrene -Polyurethane






15. 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






16. 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.






17. Gouge and chisel






18. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.






19. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points






20. 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






21. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric






22. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended






23. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite






24. AP on an art product means what






25. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.






26. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint






27. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.






28. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.






29. 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






30. Paint thinner and brush cleaner






31. 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






32. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam






33. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space






34. 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






35. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






36. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?






37. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?






38. 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.






39. The capital building was built in what architectual style?






40. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society






41. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv






42. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.






43. Pagoda






44. 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.






45. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax






46. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.






47. What city had the first skyscraper?






48. 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.






49. Most common oil in oil paints






50. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work