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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. 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.






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






3. rayons resistant to what?






4. Benin sculpture is in what medium?






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






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






7. 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






8. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint






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






10. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air






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






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






13. Rene Magritte






14. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.






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






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






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






18. 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






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






20. Origin is Mayan






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






22. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)






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






24. Who made large portraits of friends?






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






26. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.






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






28. The art of working raised and ornamental designs in threads of silk - cotton - gold - silver - or other material - upon any woven fabric - leather - paper - etc. - with a needle.






29. Made out of Metal






30. A painting medium in which pigment is mixed with water - soluble glutinous materials such as size or egg yolk. Also called poster color - poster paint.






31. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?






32. Possin was a French painter in the classical style.Themes of tragedy and death are prevalent in Poussin's work.[13] Et in Arcadia ego - a subject he painted twice (second version is seen at right) - exemplifies his cerebral approach. In this composit

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33. Is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions.

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34. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?






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






36. The capital building was built in what architectual style?






37. The laying of paint thickly






38. The central area of a church






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






40. Fix






41. Continuous frieze






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






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






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






45. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque






46. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






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






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






49. 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).






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