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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. The second oldest medium after encaustic. It was used by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks and perfected by the icon painters during the last 100 years of the old Byzantine Empire (400 AD-1202 AD).






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






3. Fix






4. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque






5. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge






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






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






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






9. Made out of Metal






10. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)






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






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






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. What color do two secondary colors make?






15. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum






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






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






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






19. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space






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






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






22. Who said ' less is more'?






23. 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






24. Most common oil in oil paints






25. 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'.






26. 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






27. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?






28. AP on an art product means what






29. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve






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






31. The central area of a church






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






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. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.






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






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






37. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?






38. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric






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






40. Example of baroque architecture






41. 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






42. 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.






43. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels






44. Is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions.

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45. A ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both. Ancient Ea ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the su






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






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






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






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






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