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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. 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.






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






3. 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).






4. Used in water printing






5. Gray made by mixing complements






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






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






8. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.






9. Sculptor. Major Work: The Thinker - a naturalist - less concerned with monumental expression than with character and emotion. Departing with centuries of tradition - he turned away from the idealism of the Greeks - and the decorative beauty of the Ba






10. The central area of a church






11. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?






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






13. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross






14. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?






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






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






17. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.






18. 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






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






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






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

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22. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve






23. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)






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






25. 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






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






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






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






29. 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.






30. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino

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31. Benin sculpture is in what medium?






32. Made out of Metal






33. Statuettes were mostly used for two purposes: to incarnate a spirit of the bush - and the second was to represent a spouse from the other world 'Blolo Bla' or 'Blolo Bian'.






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






35. Pagoda






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






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






38. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.






39. The laying of paint thickly






40. In art - the perception of depth in nature as enhanced by haze in the atmosphere; how the appearance of objects is altered over distance by the effects of the air between the viewer and the object






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






42. 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






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






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






45. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.






46. 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






47. 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.






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






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






50. Relative darkness or lightness of a color