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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome






2. 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






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






4. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.






5. rayons resistant to what?






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






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






8. 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






9. 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).






10. 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






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






12. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.






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






14. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino

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






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






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






18. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety






19. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?






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






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






22. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)






23. Air - dry unfired clay






24. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?






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






26. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile






27. Polystyrene -Polyurethane






28. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross






29. What city had the first skyscraper?






30. Made out of Metal






31. Pagoda






32. The laying of paint thickly






33. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush






34. Example of baroque architecture






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






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






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






38. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv






39. 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.






40. 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'.






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






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






43. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.






44. Most common oil in oil paints






45. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.






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






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






48. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work






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






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