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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.






2. What goes horizontal across a loom?






3. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel






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






5. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.






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






7. Continuous frieze






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






9. rayons resistant to what?






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






11. Robert Smithson






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






13. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?






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






15. Fix






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






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






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






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






20. 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.






21. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






22. 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.






23. Gray made by mixing complements






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






25. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork






26. 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






27. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?






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






29. Gouge and chisel






30. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?






31. Made out of Metal






32. 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.






33. 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






34. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino

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






36. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof






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






39. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge






40. Rene Magritte






41. 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






42. The principle in oil painting that suggests each layer of paint should contain more oil than the one beneath. Awareness of this concept helps ensure permanence.

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






44. Who said ' less is more'?






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






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






47. To make a quick sketch






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






49. 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.






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