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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware






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






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






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






5. Woven wall hangings.






6. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.






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






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






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






10. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque






11. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.






12. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint






13. A dominant idea or central theme






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






15. 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).






16. ...






17. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet






18. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society






19. Robert Smithson






20. The central area of a church






21. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.






22. 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.






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






24. A school - style - or method of painting - adopted chiefly by 17th - century Spanish and Neapolitan painters - esp Caravaggio - characterized by large areas of dark colours - usually relieved with a shaft of ligh






25. What goes horizontal across a loom?






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






27. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans






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






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






30. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.






31. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels






32. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?






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






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






35. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.






36. 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






37. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?






38. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork






39. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)






40. 3X 5300 pixels






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






42. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?

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






44. Air - dry unfired clay






45. 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.






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






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






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






49. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio






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