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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)






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






3. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein






4. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






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






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






7. 3X 5300 pixels






8. 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






9. Example of baroque architecture






10. 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.






11. Origin is Mayan






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






13. 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






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






15. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR






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






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






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






19. 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.






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






22. 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






23. Polystyrene -Polyurethane






24. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?






25. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)






26. Benin sculpture is in what medium?






27. The art of working raised and ornamental designs in threads of silk - cotton - gold - silver - or other material - upon any woven fabric - leather - paper - etc. - with a needle.






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






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






30. Gouge and chisel






31. 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'.






32. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?






33. A dominant idea or central theme






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






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






36. Woven wall hangings.






37. ...






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






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






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






41. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. What goes horizontal across a loom?






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