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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. 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.






2. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve






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






4. The genre of painting based on using the camera and photographs to gather information and then from this information - creating a painting that appears to be very realistic like a photograph.






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






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






7. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended






8. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?






9. 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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10. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge






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






12. Used in water printing






13. 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






14. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer






15. 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






16. Neo expressionist artist - Jean - Michel Basquiat was an American painter who rose to fame in the 1980s - and was the first African - American artist to gain international acclaim. His emotionally - charged paintings gave rise to graffiti art and the






17. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein






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






19. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.






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






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






22. Symmetrical balance

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23. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.






24. Paint thinner and brush cleaner






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






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






27. 3X 5300 pixels






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






29. 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






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






31. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.






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






33. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)






34. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino

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35. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






36. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers






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






38. 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.






39. Most common oil in oil paints






40. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.






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






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






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






44. 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






45. The laying of paint thickly






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






47. Came in response to Renaissance Art - ominous - otherworldly - and dark in subject. _________ art was heavily influenced by the Counter - reformation and thus more interested in dramatic scenes of saints and history paintings.Art from the Baroque per






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






49. Monticello was build in what architectual style?






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







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