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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
warp
Brushed used in oil painting
Titan's key works
Known Rodin prints
2. Focused on the depiction of patterns and Arabic calligraphy - rather than on figures - because it is feared by many Muslims that the depiction of the human form is idolatry and thereby a sin against God - forbidden in the Qur'an.
Islam art
film speed
Gel medium
chromatic gray
3. 3X 5300 pixels
A black line
best resolution in a digital photo?
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Elements of Art
4. 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
Brown
Frottage
Palace of Versaille
Basquiat
5. Huge stones
analogous Colors
Cast concrete - modeling
Linseed oil
megalith
6. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
Stoneware properties
Safety glasses
gouache
Baroque painting
7. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Emphasis
Frida Kahlo
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Describe the process of fresco
8. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Collage
Pointillism
Assemblage
Japanese art and buildings
9. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
The Renaissance
Dry Point
Rotunda
Croquis
10. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Cement
Turpentine
Tessera
Home Insurance Building in NYC
11. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Trompe - l'oil
Enameling
Rough paper
Corinthian columns
12. 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
Sulfur
Column of Trajan
Emphasis
Michelangelo
13. Made out of Metal
Design Principles
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Romanesque
African Benin Sculputure
14. 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
Linseed oil
Shade
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Frida Kahlo
15. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Gouache
best resolution in a digital photo?
Carving Tools
Doric columns
16. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Water
Mayan
Van Der Zee
the golden section (architecture)
17. What is another work for low relief?
frisket
Embroidery
Linseed oil
Bas
18. Gray made by mixing complements
Aperture
Romanesque
Barabara Krugel
chromatic gray
19. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Georgian Style
Chiaroscuro
Design Principles
Stepped Pyramid Temples
20. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Greenware
Wood and bronze
Social Murals
Depression era Artists
21. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Shade
Isocephaly
Appropriation Art
analogous Colors
22. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
binder
Acrylic paint
Designed the Barcelona chair
Armature
23. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
Dagyuerrotype
Rabbit Skin Glue
binder
Abstract Expressionist Artists
24. The art of working raised and ornamental designs in threads of silk - cotton - gold - silver - or other material - upon any woven fabric - leather - paper - etc. - with a needle.
Embroidery
Used to protect pastel artwork
vehicle
Artist Proof
25. 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'.
Turpentine
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Egg Tempera
Jewelry tools
26. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
the golden section (architecture)
Appropriation Art
Stoneware
Water
27. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Grisaille
Pop artists
Jewelry tools
Stepped Pyramid Temples
28. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Japanese art and buildings
Environmental Art
Monochrome printing
Acrylic paint
29. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Isocephaly
Artists associated with Pointillism
Palace of Versaille
Gothic Cathedrals
30. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Enameling
Assemblage
Forms of Charcoal
Linear perspective
31. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Batik
Turpentine
Motif
Printmaking Techniques
32. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Equipment used in oil painting
Wood and bronze
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Artists associated with Pointillism
33. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Acrylic paint
Mayan
Value
34. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
dry - brushing
three point perspective
Tenebrism
Batik
35. 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
Titan's key works
Romanesque
intaglio
intermediate colors
36. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Degas and Cassett
Michelangelo
Known Rodin prints
Color field painting
37. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
Embroidery
Used to protect pastel artwork
Yarn
frisket
38. 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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39. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
Ceramic - Sgraffito
The Renaissance
Known Rodin prints
Enameling
40. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
Aperture
Basic Elements of Sculpture
African masks
Collage
41. AP on an art product means what
Artist Proof
Dagyuerrotype
Camera Obscura
Yarn
42. 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
Tenebrism
Collage
Gel medium
Encaustic
43. Robert Smithson
Georgian Style
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Tint
Mississippian
44. Origin is Mayan
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Home Insurance Building in NYC
balance
binder
45. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light. More sensitive (faster) films have higher ISO numbers and require less exposure in order to make a properly - exposed picture.
Baroque painting
Tapestry
Film Speed
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
46. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
film speed
Tempera paint
Islam art
Ceramic - Sgraffito
47. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Principle of Art
Tint
Sfumato
frisket
48. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Neoclassical
Depth of Field
Dagyuerrotype
Lotus postition
49. Made by Gustav Eiffel - Eiffel - marks the centennial celebration of the French Revolution. Liberty - iconic symbol of freedom and of the United States. French gave the US - statue of liberty
Stoneware
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Pointillism
Rough paper
50. Pagoda
Assemblage
Wedging
Another term used for buddhist temple
Romanesque