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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome






2. In oil painting - the technique of brushing one layer of paint on top of another in a way that reveals some of the under color.






3. 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.






4. A dominant idea or central theme






5. The central area of a church






6. 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.






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






8. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric






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






11. Robert Smithson






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






13. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows






14. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum






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






16. 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).






17. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended






18. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space






19. 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






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






21. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge






22. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.






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






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






25. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?






26. 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






27. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.






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






29. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






30. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve






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






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






33. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.






34. 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






35. Benin sculpture is in what medium?






36. Gray made by mixing complements






37. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston






38. 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.






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






40. 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






41. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?






42. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?






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






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






46. What type of paper would have a raised texture?






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






48. Painter and printmaker of Romantism.Held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity - and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. Works: The Song of Los - The Lovers Whirlwind - Ancient of Days






49. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?






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