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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy






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

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






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






5. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended






6. Polystyrene -Polyurethane






7. 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






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






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






10. Meaning to rub a crayon or other tool onto paper or other material - which is placed onto a textured surface - in order to create the texture of that surface on the paper.






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. A painting technique in which - as the name suggests - a little bit of paint is put on a dry brush. When applied - it produces a broken - scratchy effect.






13. Gouge and chisel






14. What color do two secondary colors make?






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






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






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






18. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?






19. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.






20. What goes horizontal across a loom?






21. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?






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






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






24. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby






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






26. 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.






27. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint






28. Fix






29. His versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man






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






31. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral






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






33. rayons resistant to what?






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






35. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross






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






37. Who said ' less is more'?






38. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?






39. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.






40. 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.






41. To make a quick sketch






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






43. 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.






44. Made out of Metal






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






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






47. 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






48. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.






49. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve






50. Benin sculpture is in what medium?







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