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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy






2. Origin is Mayan






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






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






5. 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.






6. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge






7. 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.






8. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino


9. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax






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






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






12. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?






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






14. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint






15. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space






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






17. The genre of painting based on using the camera and photographs to gather information and then from this information - creating a painting that appears to be very realistic like a photograph.






18. What goes horizontal across a loom?






19. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?






20. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?






21. 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






22. What color do two secondary colors make?






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






24. 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






25. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware






26. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.






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






28. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.






29. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint






30. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.






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






32. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






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






34. Gouge and chisel






35. Continuous frieze






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






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






38. Is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions.


39. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.






40. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.






41. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.






42. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.






43. Who said ' less is more'?






44. Example of baroque architecture






45. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.






46. Fix






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






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






49. 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






50. 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