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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. What is another work for low relief?






2. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows






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






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






5. 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






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






7. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?






8. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve






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






10. What color do two secondary colors make?






11. Meaning to rub a crayon or other tool onto paper or other material - which is placed onto a textured surface - in order to create the texture of that surface on the paper.






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






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






14. Possin was a French painter in the classical style.Themes of tragedy and death are prevalent in Poussin's work.[13] Et in Arcadia ego - a subject he painted twice (second version is seen at right) - exemplifies his cerebral approach. In this composit

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15. To make a quick sketch






16. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?






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






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






19. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






20. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?






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






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






23. 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






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






25. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?






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






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






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






29. A dominant idea or central theme






30. 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






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






32. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross






33. 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.






34. 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).






35. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile






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






37. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?






38. Pagoda






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






40. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.






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






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






43. Most common oil in oil paints






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






45. Known for stone. The term was invented by 19th century art historians - especially for Romanesque architecture - which retained many basic features of Roman architectural style - most notably round - headed arches - but also barrel vaults - apses - a






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






47. 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






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






49. 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).






50. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space