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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston






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






3. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels






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






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






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.






8. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows






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






10. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile






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






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






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






14. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton






15. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.






16. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?






17. What is another work for low relief?






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.






19. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof






20. What goes horizontal across a loom?






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






22. A dominant idea or central theme






23. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?






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






25. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque






26. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)






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.






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.






29. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.






30. ...






31. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?






32. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting






33. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge






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






35. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






36. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint






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'.






38. To mount a white and black photo - use...






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?






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.






42. To make a quick sketch






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






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.






45. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)






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






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.






48. Robert Smithson






49. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?






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