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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. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Parchment
Designed the Barcelona chair
Women artist of the 19th century
intermediate colors
2. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Rabbit Skin Glue
Baroque painting
Cast concrete - modeling
nave
3. Used her life experiences into her artwork - including her marriage - her miscarriages - and her numerous operations - works often are characterized by their stark portrayals of pain - combined elements of the classic religious Mexican tradition with
vehicle
Designed the Barcelona chair
Frida Kahlo
analogous Colors
4. Rocks - pebbles etc - 'a hole can it self have as much shape meaning as a solid mass. The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation. The hole connects one side to the other - making it immediately more three - dimensional. A hole can i
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Column of Trajan
Scoring
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
5. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Emphasis
Ceramic glaze
Safety glasses
Shutter Speed
6. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Van Der Zee
Photorealism
Film Speed
7. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Islam art
Julio Gonzalez
Enameling
Home Insurance Building in NYC
8. 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
Depth of Field
Basquiat
Romanesque
Basic Elements of Sculpture
9. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
binder
Social Realism
stain glass in a cathedral
gouache
10. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
Photorealism
Mississippian
megalith
Emphasis
11. Continuous frieze
Column of Trajan
Gothic Cathedrals
Printmaking Techniques
Gel medium
12. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Ionic columns
Acrylic paint
Esquisse
Basic Elements of Sculpture
13. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Jewelry tools
Brushed used in oil painting
Enameling
14. His versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man
Tenebrism
Rodin
Michelangelo
Assemblage
15. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
intermediate colors
Titan's key works
Ionic columns
Scoring
16. Made out of Metal
Social Murals
African Benin Sculputure
Palace of Versaille
Color field painting
17. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Design Principles
Equipment used in oil painting
Frida Kahlo
Dome
18. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Another term used for buddhist temple
Appropriation Art
Photogravure
Artist Proof
19. Rene Magritte
Tapestry
Used to protect pastel artwork
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Isocephaly
20. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
A black line
Charcoal pen
Georgian Style
African Benin Sculputure
21. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Michelangelo
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Pumice
Ceramic - Sgraffito
22. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Color field painting artists
Gel medium
Frottage
best resolution in a digital photo?
23. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Van Der Zee
dry - brushing
Environmental Art
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
24. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Describe the process of fresco
Grisaille
Brown
25. 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.
Aperture
Home Insurance Building in NYC
binder
Acrylic paint
26. ...
balance
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Embroidery
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
27. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
I.M. Pei
kinds of stones for stone carving
Basquiat
Motif
28. To make a quick sketch
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Croquis
Albert Durer
Emphasis
29. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Tapestry
Stoneware
Facing forward and stiff
Degas and Cassett
30. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
Depression art
Lotus postition
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
'fat over lean'
31. Came in response to Renaissance Art - ominous - otherworldly - and dark in subject. _________ art was heavily influenced by the Counter - reformation and thus more interested in dramatic scenes of saints and history paintings.Art from the Baroque per
'fat over lean'
Baroque painting
Photorealism
African Benin Sculputure
32. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Titan's key works
Brushed used in oil painting
Kinetic art
33. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
megalith
best resolution in a digital photo?
Safety glasses
Greenware
34. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Gothic Cathedrals
Film Speed
nave
Linear perspective
35. Gray made by mixing complements
Pastel
Gothic Cathedrals
scumbling
chromatic gray
36. 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
37. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
A black line
Color field painting artists
Appropriation Art
Social Murals
38. What goes horizontal across a loom?
modeling
Rodin
binder
Yarn
39. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
The Renaissance
Albert Durer
stain glass in a cathedral
Gel medium
40. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
A black line
Linear perspective
Social Realism
Shade
41. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Elements of Art
Adena Indian habitats
Isocephaly
Collage
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.
Stoneware
Meyer Schapiro
Tint
Photorealism
43. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Social Murals
Rembrandt
Scoring
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
44. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
Principle of Art
Doric columns
Neoclassical
Loom
45. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Meyer Schapiro
Brown
Van Der Zee
Egg Tempera
46. Came in response to the darkness and heaviness of Baroque art - but did continue many of the ideals specified during the 17th century. Rococo related much more to decorative shapes as well as the natural and organic. Swirling shapes and asymmetrical
Appropriation Art
Rococo
Sfumato
Used to protect pastel artwork
47. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Loom
Cast concrete - modeling
Brown
Turpentine
48. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Bas
Aperture
Loom
Tessera
49. Air - dry unfired clay
film speed
Forms of Charcoal
Parchment
Greenware
50. What city had the first skyscraper?
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Islam art
Paint Extender