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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. 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






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






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






4. Monticello was build in what architectual style?






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






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






7. Most common oil in oil paints






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






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






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






11. Used her life experiences into her artwork - including her marriage - her miscarriages - and her numerous operations - works often are characterized by their stark portrayals of pain - combined elements of the classic religious Mexican tradition with






12. What city had the first skyscraper?






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






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






15. 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.






16. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross






17. rayons resistant to what?






18. Woven wall hangings.






19. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?






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






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






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






23. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.






24. 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.






25. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?






26. What goes horizontal across a loom?






27. 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'.






28. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint






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

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






31. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air






32. What color do two secondary colors make?






33. 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).






34. 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






35. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.






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






37. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?






38. 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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39. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque






40. Made out of Metal






41. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.






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






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






44. His versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man






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






46. In oil painting - the technique of brushing one layer of paint on top of another in a way that reveals some of the under color.






47. 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.






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






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






50. 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.