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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. Origin is Mayan






2. What color do two secondary colors make?






3. Mexican murals painted in what theme?






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






5. Continuous frieze






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






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






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






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






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






11. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?






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






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






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






16. 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






17. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.






18. Monticello was build in what architectual style?






19. What city had the first skyscraper?






20. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work






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






22. To make a quick sketch






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






24. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.






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






26. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)






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






28. The central area of a church






29. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein






30. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?






31. 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.






32. Made by Gustav Eiffel - Eiffel - marks the centennial celebration of the French Revolution. Liberty - iconic symbol of freedom and of the United States. French gave the US - statue of liberty






33. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?






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






35. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel






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






37. 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






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






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






40. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite






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






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






43. 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






44. In art - the perception of depth in nature as enhanced by haze in the atmosphere; how the appearance of objects is altered over distance by the effects of the air between the viewer and the object






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






46. Known by its massive quality - its thick walls - round arches - sturdy piers - groin vaults - large towers and decorative arcading. Each building has clearly defined forms and they are frequently of very regular - symmetrical plan so that the overall






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






48. Most common oil in oil paints






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






50. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?