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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. Huge stones






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






3. 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






4. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?






5. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended






6. 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).






7. 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.






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






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






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






11. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross






12. Painter and printmaker of Romantism.Held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity - and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. Works: The Song of Los - The Lovers Whirlwind - Ancient of Days






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






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






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






16. 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






17. 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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18. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?






19. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.






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






21. 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.






22. 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






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






24. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






25. Continuous frieze






26. 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






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






28. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)






29. 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.






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






31. 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






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






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






34. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum






35. 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.






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






37. Most common oil in oil paints






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






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






40. 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.






41. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness






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






43. A dominant idea or central theme






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






45. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points






46. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.






47. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.






48. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein






49. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?






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