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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.






2. Made out of Metal






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






4. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work






5. Gray made by mixing complements






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






7. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?






8. Used in water printing






9. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?






10. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork






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






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






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






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






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






17. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)






18. 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.






19. Pagoda






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






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






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






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






24. The art of working raised and ornamental designs in threads of silk - cotton - gold - silver - or other material - upon any woven fabric - leather - paper - etc. - with a needle.






25. 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






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






27. rayons resistant to what?






28. The laying of paint thickly






29. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.






30. 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.






31. 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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32. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. Origin is Mayan






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






41. Rene Magritte






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






43. 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






44. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.






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






46. Continuous frieze






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






48. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?






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






50. Polystyrene -Polyurethane