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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. 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






2. 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.






3. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






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






5. Used in water printing






6. What goes horizontal across a loom?






7. Monticello was build in what architectual style?






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






9. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)






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






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






12. Mexican murals painted in what theme?






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






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






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






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






17. What city had the first skyscraper?






18. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush






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






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






21. Robert Smithson






22. 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'.






23. A German performance artist - sculptor - installation artist - graphic artist - art theorist and pedagogue of art. Artwork: Performance : How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare






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






25. 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






26. AP on an art product means what






27. Rene Magritte






28. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended






29. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.






30. Came in response to the darkness and heaviness of Baroque art - but did continue many of the ideals specified during the 17th century. Rococo related much more to decorative shapes as well as the natural and organic. Swirling shapes and asymmetrical






31. A ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both. Ancient Ea ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the su






32. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






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






34. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?






35. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge






36. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel






37. Focused on the depiction of patterns and Arabic calligraphy - rather than on figures - because it is feared by many Muslims that the depiction of the human form is idolatry and thereby a sin against God - forbidden in the Qur'an.






38. Air - dry unfired clay






39. 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.






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






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






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






43. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?






44. 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.






45. What color do two secondary colors make?






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






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






48. To make a quick sketch






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






50. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven