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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?






2. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.






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






4. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino

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5. 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






6. What city had the first skyscraper?






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






8. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world






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






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






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






12. Robert Smithson






13. To mount a white and black photo - use...






14. A dominant idea or central theme






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






16. 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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17. Monticello was build in what architectual style?






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






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






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






21. Made out of Metal






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






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






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






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






26. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?






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






28. 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






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






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






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






32. Paint thinner and brush cleaner






33. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?






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






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






36. 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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37. ...






38. 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'.






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






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






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






42. Cyan - Magenta - Yellow - Key (blacK). This ystem is used for printing. For mixing of pigments - it is better to use the secondary colours - since they mix subtractively instead of additively.






43. What is another work for low relief?






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






45. 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.






46. 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






47. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?






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






49. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.






50. Huge stones







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