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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. 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






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






3. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.






4. Gray made by mixing complements






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






6. 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.






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






8. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?






9. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer






10. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)






11. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?






12. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.






13. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.






14. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.






15. Made out of Metal






16. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve






17. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam






18. Considered one of the greatest printmakers of all time. Working with both woodcuts and copper engravings - he attained a level of detail that is virtually unsurpassed.






19. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.






20. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?






21. Rene Magritte






22. Symmetrical balance

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23. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?






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






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






26. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?






27. 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






28. Huge stones






29. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color






30. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome






31. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?






32. 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






33. Came in response to Renaissance Art - ominous - otherworldly - and dark in subject. _________ art was heavily influenced by the Counter - reformation and thus more interested in dramatic scenes of saints and history paintings.Art from the Baroque per






34. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton






35. Cyan - Magenta - Yellow - Key (blacK). This ystem is used for printing. For mixing of pigments - it is better to use the secondary colours - since they mix subtractively instead of additively.






36. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum






37. To mount a white and black photo - use...






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






39. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.






40. What is another work for low relief?






41. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






42. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.






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






44. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?






45. The principle in oil painting that suggests each layer of paint should contain more oil than the one beneath. Awareness of this concept helps ensure permanence.

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






47. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.






48. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?






49. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points






50. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?







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