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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.






2. Monticello was build in what architectual style?






3. Woven wall hangings.






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






5. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax






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






7. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society






8. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR






9. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space






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






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






12. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






13. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy






14. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross






15. AP on an art product means what






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






17. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?






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

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19. 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






20. Most common oil in oil paints






21. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge






22. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.






23. Pagoda






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






25. Air - dry unfired clay






26. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color






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






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






29. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein






30. The principle in oil painting that suggests each layer of paint should contain more oil than the one beneath. Awareness of this concept helps ensure permanence.

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31. 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).






32. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?






33. What city had the first skyscraper?






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






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






36. 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.






37. 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






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






39. 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'.






40. A painting technique in which - as the name suggests - a little bit of paint is put on a dry brush. When applied - it produces a broken - scratchy effect.






41. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.






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






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






44. 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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45. Origin is Mayan






46. To make a quick sketch






47. 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






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






49. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?






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