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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?






2. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel






3. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)






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






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






6. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?






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






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






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






10. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof






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






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






13. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?






14. Mexican murals painted in what theme?






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






16. 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).






17. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.






18. Gray made by mixing complements






19. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






20. 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






21. The central area of a church






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






23. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino

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






25. 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.






26. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite






27. Pagoda






28. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






29. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)






30. A dominant idea or central theme






31. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge






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






33. Rene Magritte






34. What goes horizontal across a loom?






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






36. ...






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






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






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






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






41. What type of paper would have a raised texture?






42. 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






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






44. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?






45. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?






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






48. 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






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. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space