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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel






2. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.






3. 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






4. What city had the first skyscraper?






5. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.






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






7. 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






8. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?






9. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.






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






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






12. 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'.






13. Air - dry unfired clay






14. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.






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






16. 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.






17. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio






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






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






20. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?






21. 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.






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






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






24. 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.






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






26. Fix






27. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?






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






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






30. 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






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






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






33. Possin was a French painter in the classical style.Themes of tragedy and death are prevalent in Poussin's work.[13] Et in Arcadia ego - a subject he painted twice (second version is seen at right) - exemplifies his cerebral approach. In this composit

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






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






36. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs






37. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.






38. Continuous frieze






39. 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.






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






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






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






43. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby






44. 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






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






46. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton






47. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.






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






49. 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






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







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