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Praxis 2 Art
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1. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
Aperture
intermediate colors
Corinthian columns
rhythm
2. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Safety glasses
constructed the Spiral Jetty
stain glass in a cathedral
Fire clay
3. The central area of a church
nave
Doric columns
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Gouache
4. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Turpentine
Facing forward and stiff
binder
Encaustic
5. Gouge and chisel
Barabara Krugel
Hardbrick
Carving Tools
David Hockney
6. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Water
Cement
The Renaissance
7. 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
slip
William Blake
Basquiat
Pumice
8. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
intermediate colors
Corinthian columns
Aperture
Kinetic art
9. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Stoneware
Meyer Schapiro
Environmental Art
Encaustic
10. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Carving Tools
Michelangelo
Georgian Style
Depression era Artists
11. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Depression art
Rococo
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
12. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Georgian Style
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Hagia Sophia
13. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Shade
Turpentine
Photorealism
Lotus postition
14. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Hardbrick
Design Principles
Dagyuerrotype
Value
15. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
Armature
CMYK
Turpentine
nave
16. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Motif
Enameling
Principle of Art
Depression art
17. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Encaustic
Jewelry tools
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Social Realism
18. The second oldest medium after encaustic. It was used by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks and perfected by the icon painters during the last 100 years of the old Byzantine Empire (400 AD-1202 AD).
Value
Egg Tempera
Another term used for buddhist temple
Adena Indian habitats
19. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Adena Indian habitats
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Used to protect pastel artwork
Rough paper
20. 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
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
William Blake
Color field painting
Frottage
21. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
value
Islam art
Women artist of the 19th century
Social Murals
22. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Lotus postition
Jewelry tools
Ceramic glaze
Mississippian
23. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Esquisse
Dry Point
Design Elements
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
24. A form of painting in which tiny dots of primary - colors are used to generate secondary colors. It is very similar to Divisionism - except that where Divisionism is concerned with color theory - Pointillism is more focused on the specific style of b
Pointillism
CMYK
Describe the process of fresco
Stoneware properties
25. 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.
weft
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
scumbling
Emphasis
26. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Gothic Cathedrals
Rabbit Skin Glue
Linseed oil
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
27. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Dagyuerrotype
Value
Grisaille
Japanese art and buildings
28. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Sfumato
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Environmental Art
29. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
kinds of stones for stone carving
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
William Blake
Printmaking Techniques
30. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Emphasis
stain glass in a cathedral
Women artist of the 19th century
Baroque painting
31. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
Motif
Pumice
slip
analogous Colors
32. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Julio Gonzalez
Bas
Rococo
Islam art
33. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Esquisse
Palace of Versaille
Pop artists
constructed the Spiral Jetty
34. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
The Renaissance
Aperture
Color field painting
Pastel
35. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
African Benin Sculputure
intaglio
Depth of Field
36. 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.
Collage
Aperture
Film Speed
African masks
37. In art - the perception of depth in nature as enhanced by haze in the atmosphere; how the appearance of objects is altered over distance by the effects of the air between the viewer and the object
Wood and bronze
Pop artists
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Egg Tempera
38. A German performance artist - sculptor - installation artist - graphic artist - art theorist and pedagogue of art. Artwork: Performance : How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare
slip
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Tapestry
Joseph Beuys
39. 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'.
Known Rodin prints
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Mississippian
Romanesque Cathedrals
40. Used in water printing
Esquisse
The post - and - lintel system
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Acrylic paint
41. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
value
Shutter Speed
Forms of Charcoal
modeling
42. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
African masks
Paint Extender
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Armature
43. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
Titan's key works
Sfumato
Kinetic art
Esquisse
44. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Gothic Cathedrals
Tenebrism
Kinetic art
Rabbit Skin Glue
45. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
Column of Trajan
frisket
chromatic gray
aquatint
46. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Brushed used in oil painting
Color field painting
Loom
Collage
47. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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48. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
Rembrandt
gouache
megalith
Degas and Cassett
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
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
frisket
Brown
Film Speed
50. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Linear perspective
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Printmaking Techniques
Artists who used Vamera Obscura