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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. Woven wall hangings.






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






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






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






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






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






7. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)






8. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.






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






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






11. What color do two secondary colors make?






12. What is another work for low relief?






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






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






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






16. 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.






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






18. Mexican murals painted in what theme?






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






20. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware






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






23. Benin sculpture is in what medium?






24. 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






25. 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).






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






27. Air - dry unfired clay






28. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






29. rayons resistant to what?






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






31. 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






32. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?






33. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?






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






35. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?






36. 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






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






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






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






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






41. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.






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






43. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color






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






45. 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.






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






47. Origin is Mayan






48. AP on an art product means what






49. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?






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