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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)






2. Robert Smithson






3. Paint thinner and brush cleaner






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






5. 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






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






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






8. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv






9. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work






10. The capital building was built in what architectual style?






11. 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'.






12. Harlem Renaissance artist known for etchings - was a German painter - printmaker - and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition in the first half of the 20th century. Her empathy for the less fortunate






13. 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.






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






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






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






17. Used in water printing






18. Pagoda






19. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society






20. What goes horizontal across a loom?






21. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.






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






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

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






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






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






27. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve






28. Air - dry unfired clay






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






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






31. 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.






32. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint






33. Gray made by mixing complements






34. What is another work for low relief?






35. 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).






36. Known for stone. The term was invented by 19th century art historians - especially for Romanesque architecture - which retained many basic features of Roman architectural style - most notably round - headed arches - but also barrel vaults - apses - a






37. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended






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






39. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein






40. The central area of a church






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






42. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?






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






44. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.






45. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.






46. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.






47. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge






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






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






50. 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