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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






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






3. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint






4. Mexican murals painted in what theme?






5. 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






6. The central area of a church






7. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?






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






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






10. Gray made by mixing complements






11. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?






12. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?






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






30. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque






31. Robert Smithson






32. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






33. Woven wall hangings.






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






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






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






37. Who said ' less is more'?






38. 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






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






40. Air - dry unfired clay






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






42. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.






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






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






45. 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






46. 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.






47. Continuous frieze






48. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?






49. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.






50. The laying of paint thickly