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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet






2. The capital building was built in what architectual style?






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






4. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work






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






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






7. Pagoda






8. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio






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






10. In art - the perception of depth in nature as enhanced by haze in the atmosphere; how the appearance of objects is altered over distance by the effects of the air between the viewer and the object






11. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






12. Continuous frieze






13. rayons resistant to what?






14. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.






15. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?






16. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






22. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.






23. A dominant idea or central theme






24. What city had the first skyscraper?






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






26. Gray made by mixing complements






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






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






29. 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).






30. 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






31. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space






32. ...






33. Origin is Mayan






34. 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






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






36. 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






37. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton






38. Who said ' less is more'?






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






40. Mexican murals painted in what theme?






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






42. 3X 5300 pixels






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






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






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






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






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






48. 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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49. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety






50. 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.