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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. What color do two secondary colors make?






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






3. Air - dry unfired clay






4. Benin sculpture is in what medium?






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






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






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






8. 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.






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






10. 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).






11. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work






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






13. 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.






14. What is another work for low relief?






15. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






16. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?






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






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






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






20. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety






21. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton






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

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






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






25. Paint thinner and brush cleaner






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






27. 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






28. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?






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






30. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?






31. Mexican murals painted in what theme?






32. 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'.






33. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?






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






35. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque






36. Gouge and chisel






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






38. 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






39. 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






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






41. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?






42. AP on an art product means what






43. 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






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






45. 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






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






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






48. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.






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






50. Most common oil in oil paints