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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.






2. Meaning to rub a crayon or other tool onto paper or other material - which is placed onto a textured surface - in order to create the texture of that surface on the paper.






3. 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.






4. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






5. 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.






6. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?






7. 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).






8. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world






9. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross






10. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.






11. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.






12. Gouge and chisel






13. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?






14. 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.






15. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?






16. Mexican murals painted in what theme?






17. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy






18. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting






19. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.






20. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.






21. rayons resistant to what?






22. Rene Magritte






23. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve






24. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design






25. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness






26. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work






27. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs






28. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque






29. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?






30. An art and design principle concerned with the arrangement of one or more elements in a work of art so that they appear symmetrical (even) or asymmetrical (uneven) in design and proportion.






31. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows






32. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby






33. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.






34. Symmetrical balance

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35. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space






36. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.






37. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston






38. 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

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39. 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






40. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.






41. Woven wall hangings.






42. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.






43. Harlem Renaissance artist known for etchings - was a German painter - printmaker - and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition in the first half of the 20th century. Her empathy for the less fortunate






44. What goes horizontal across a loom?






45. The capital building was built in what architectual style?






46. Hard - dense firebrick generally used only in high - stress areas of kiln (floor - burner ports - flues - bagwall) and for corrosive firing processes (salt - soda - wood).






47. Air - dry unfired clay






48. The central area of a church






49. ...






50. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.