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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. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Stoneware
Encaustic
Safety glasses
2. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
African Benin Sculputure
Artists associated with Pointillism
Hagia Sophia
Titan's key works
3. Most common oil in oil paints
Charcoal pen
intermediate colors
Linseed oil
Social Realism
4. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Environmental Art
Jewelry tools
Van Der Zee
Chiaroscuro
5. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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6. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
Gel medium
Depression era Artists
Ceramic - Sgraffito
balance
7. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
megalith
Wedging
Printmaking Techniques
Assemblage
8. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Facing forward and stiff
Tessera
Dry Point
Assemblage
9. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
scumbling
Known Rodin prints
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Stoneware
10. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
value
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
The Renaissance
Armature
11. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
slip
Tapestry
Design Principles
Shade
12. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Designed the Barcelona chair
Design Elements
Acrylic paint
Egg Tempera
13. 3X 5300 pixels
best resolution in a digital photo?
Cement
scumbling
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
14. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Paint Extender
Tessera
Collage
Yarn
15. Symmetrical balance
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16. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
Camera Obscura
rhythm
Color field painting artists
Describe the process of fresco
17. Used in water printing
Mayan
Aperture
Batik
Acrylic paint
18. 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.
Linseed oil
Romanesque
scumbling
Motif
19. Fix
Column of Trajan
Used to protect pastel artwork
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Mississippian
20. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
frisket
Isocephaly
gesso
Degas and Cassett
21. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
film speed
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Impasto
Camera Obscura
22. 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.
Japanese art and buildings
Linear perspective
dry - brushing
Tempera paint
23. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
Color field painting
Rembrandt
Stoneware properties
wedging the clay
24. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Value
Camera Obscura
chromatic gray
25. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
Tessera
film speed
Stoneware
Basic Elements of Sculpture
26. To make a quick sketch
Appropriation Art
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Aperture
Croquis
27. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
'fat over lean'
Julio Gonzalez
Ionic columns
Used to protect pastel artwork
28. Rene Magritte
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Loom
Doric columns
Wood and bronze
29. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Value
Scoring
scumbling
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
30. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Sfumato
Brown
Barabara Krugel
Elements of Art
31. 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
balance
Camera Obscura
William Blake
Mayan
32. Gray made by mixing complements
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
chromatic gray
Isocephaly
Albert Durer
33. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Stoneware properties
Albert Durer
Charcoal pen
Grisaille
34. A painting medium in which pigment is mixed with water - soluble glutinous materials such as size or egg yolk. Also called poster color - poster paint.
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Tempera paint
Color field painting artists
weft
35. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
Parchment
Aperture
modeling
Romanesque
36. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
I.M. Pei
Color field painting
Lotus postition
The post - and - lintel system
37. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
Dagyuerrotype
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Forms of Charcoal
Emphasis
38. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
frisket
Thomas Gainsborough
Turpentine
Home Insurance Building in NYC
39. 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.
Monochrome printing
Sfumato
Rabbit Skin Glue
Croquis
40. What is another work for low relief?
Safety glasses
balance
Bas
megalith
41. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Tint
Color field painting artists
Romantic Era
Cement
42. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Pumice
Rice paper
film speed
Tapestry
43. 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
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Aperture
Romanesque Cathedrals
weft
44. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
Romantic Era
Neoclassical
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
binder
45. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Dagyuerrotype
Fire clay
Hardbrick
Ionic columns
46. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
kinds of stones for stone carving
Palace of Versaille
Paint Extender
Linear perspective
47. Huge stones
intermediate colors
megalith
Stoneware
Crenellation
48. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Shutter Speed
Romanesque
Water
CMYK
49. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Another term used for buddhist temple
Cast concrete - modeling
Doric columns
aquatint
50. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Van Der Zee
Paint Extender
Bas
Another term used for buddhist temple