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Praxis 2 Art

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






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






3. 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.






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






5. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.






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






7. Woven wall hangings.






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






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






10. Fix






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






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






13. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?

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14. A German performance artist - sculptor - installation artist - graphic artist - art theorist and pedagogue of art. Artwork: Performance : How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare






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






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






17. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






18. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross






19. 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






20. Painter and printmaker of Romantism.Held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity - and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. Works: The Song of Los - The Lovers Whirlwind - Ancient of Days






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






22. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.






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






24. 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).






25. Used in water printing






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






27. 3X 5300 pixels






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






29. 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






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






31. Gouge and chisel






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






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






34. Huge stones






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






36. An art and design principle concerned with the arrangement of one or more elements in a work of art so that they appear symmetrical (even) or asymmetrical (uneven) in design and proportion.






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






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






39. 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






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






41. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)






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






43. Is a circle - shaped opening in a lens (a hole - really) through which light passes to strike the film. The size of the aperture is expressed as an f - number - like f/8 or f/11.






44. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution






45. 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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46. Air - dry unfired clay






47. 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.






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






49. Gray made by mixing complements






50. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?







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