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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. 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






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






3. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?






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






5. Used in water printing






6. Made by Gustav Eiffel - Eiffel - marks the centennial celebration of the French Revolution. Liberty - iconic symbol of freedom and of the United States. French gave the US - statue of liberty






7. What color do two secondary colors make?






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






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






10. Paint thinner and brush cleaner






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






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






13. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax






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






15. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.






16. 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.






17. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.






18. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.






19. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino

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






21. 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.






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






23. What goes horizontal across a loom?






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






25. 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.






26. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.






27. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome






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






29. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air






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






31. Mexican murals painted in what theme?






32. Woven wall hangings.






33. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral






34. Considered one of the greatest printmakers of all time. Working with both woodcuts and copper engravings - he attained a level of detail that is virtually unsurpassed.






35. Neo expressionist artist - Jean - Michel Basquiat was an American painter who rose to fame in the 1980s - and was the first African - American artist to gain international acclaim. His emotionally - charged paintings gave rise to graffiti art and the






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






37. The central area of a church






38. Origin is Mayan






39. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended






40. Benin sculpture is in what medium?






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






42. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






43. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge






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






45. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness






46. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel






47. 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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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. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)






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