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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?

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






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






4. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve






5. 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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6. The capital building was built in what architectual style?






7. Example of baroque architecture






8. The laying of paint thickly






9. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum






10. Who made large portraits of friends?






11. A dominant idea or central theme






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






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






14. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.






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






16. Continuous frieze






17. Woven wall hangings.






18. 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.






19. 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






20. What is another work for low relief?






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






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






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






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






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






26. ...






27. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world






28. 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






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






30. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque






31. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






32. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.






33. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite






34. 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






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






36. 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.






37. 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.






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






39. Came in response to Renaissance Art - ominous - otherworldly - and dark in subject. _________ art was heavily influenced by the Counter - reformation and thus more interested in dramatic scenes of saints and history paintings.Art from the Baroque per






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






41. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)






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






43. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.






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






45. The second oldest medium after encaustic. It was used by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks and perfected by the icon painters during the last 100 years of the old Byzantine Empire (400 AD-1202 AD).






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






47. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein






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






49. 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.






50. 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'.







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