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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. To mount a white and black photo - use...






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






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






4. 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.






5. 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.






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






7. 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






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






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






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






11. 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.






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






13. Origin is Mayan






14. Benin sculpture is in what medium?






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






16. Fix






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






18. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)






19. 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.






20. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.






21. Used her life experiences into her artwork - including her marriage - her miscarriages - and her numerous operations - works often are characterized by their stark portrayals of pain - combined elements of the classic religious Mexican tradition with






22. Known by its massive quality - its thick walls - round arches - sturdy piers - groin vaults - large towers and decorative arcading. Each building has clearly defined forms and they are frequently of very regular - symmetrical plan so that the overall






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






24. To make a quick sketch






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






26. Rocks - pebbles etc - 'a hole can it self have as much shape meaning as a solid mass. The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation. The hole connects one side to the other - making it immediately more three - dimensional. A hole can i






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






28. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers






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






30. 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.






31. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended






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






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






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






35. Gray made by mixing complements






36. Huge stones






37. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein






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






39. Who said ' less is more'?






40. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR






41. 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).






42. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv






43. Example of baroque architecture






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






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






46. 3X 5300 pixels






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






48. 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






49. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution






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