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Art Praxis
Content and Analysis art praxis
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Which of the following statements is applicable to this painting by Jacob Lawrence? (Barber Shop) | Shapes and colors are repeated to create a visual rhythm. |
| Formalism | Plays down content and instead emphasizes the principles of design and elements used to express them. |
| Modeling | The drawing process that uses changes in value to represent a 3-dimensional surface. |
| Monoprinting | Does not limit the artist to either water-based or oil-based ink and the choice between them is likely to be made according to the context. |
| Megapixel | One million pixels |
| A traditional way to create patterns on the surface of a 3-dimensional object is to use | Is to use wood inlay. In this process, small pieces of wood (of one or more colors) are inlaid into a wooden surface of yet another color or value. |
| Lost Wax | A technique of casting metal in a plaster mold. |
| True Porcelain | Ceramic product that requires the highway firing temperature. (above 2,300° F) |
| Raku | A kind of lead-glazed Japanese earthenware, typically irregular in shape and used especially for the tea ceremony. |
| The process of preparing or threading a frame for weaving is referred to as | Warping the loom. |
| Warp | The group of lengthwise threads that are held in tension on a frame or loom. |
| Which adhesive is archival and safest to use when hinging a two-dimensional artwork to museum board? | Wheat paste, a starch-based adhesive with acid-free paper hinges. |
| In Ravenna's church of San Vitale, the richly colored Empress Theodora and Her Attendants was created in which of the following media? | Glass Tesserae (tiny glass tiles) |
| Daguerreotypes | Early type of photograph named for Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre. |
| Goals of the Art Nouveau movement | To revitalize the arts with a unifying style of flowing organic. To create art suited to the realities of the industrial age. |
| The decorative motifs of the eighteenth-century architect Robert Adam are most similar to those found on? | Wedgwood Pottery |
| The eighteenth-century painter and graphic artist William Hogarth produced a series of pictures that functioned chiefly as | Social satire. William Hogarth examined the mores and activities of the social and economic classes in his satirical moral works, which were painted and later engraved. |
| Jean-Michel Basquiat | Neo-Expressionist |
| Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party celebrates | The achievements and contributions of women throughout history. |
| Art patronage during the Dutch Baroque age expanded from preceding periods to include | The middle class. A surge in economic prosperity produced wealthy middle-class patrons eager to buy art. Artists began to specialize in popular subject matter, including scenes of everyday life. |
| The contemporary artist Annie Leibovitz is best known for her work in which of the following? | Portrait photography. |
| Which of the following is a feature of Hokusai's Japanese landscape that would distinguish it from a European landscape painting or print created prior to 1850? | The flat use of color and abstract shapes. (Ukiyo-e) |
| Most of these colossal heads were found defaced and buried, probably to mark the death of a ruler of which of the following civilizations? | Olmec, enormous stone representations of human heads are the distinctive legacy of the Olmec civilization of ancient Mesoamerica. |
| The concept of the sublime is best defined as an experience that provokes a sense of | Awe, the aesthetic concept concerning the sublime was taken up in earnest in eighteenth-century England. A sublime quality in nature is distinct from beauty and is best defined as an experience that provokes a sense of awe. |
| The philosopher Arthur Danto laid the groundwork for an institutional theory of art that rests on which of the following ideas? | Art is determined by the artworld. Basically, Danto theorized art is art when it has been intentionally presented for inclusion in the artworld, which is the beginning of the institutional theory of art put forth by George Dickie. |
| The Feldman method of art criticism includes description, analysis, interpretation, and which of the following? | Judgment |
| Which of the following is a feature of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling that was revealed after the ceiling had been cleaned, altering critical understanding of the ceiling? | Vibrant colors. Although still controversial, the cleaning of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes revealed vivid colors that surprised people. Arguably the greatest art conservation project of the twentieth century. |
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