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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. Monticello was build in what architectual style?






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






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






5. 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






6. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?






7. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?






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






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






10. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum






11. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve






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






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






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






15. 3X 5300 pixels






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






17. 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.






18. 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.






19. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross






20. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?






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






22. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work






23. Is a circle - shaped opening in a lens (a hole - really) through which light passes to strike the film. The size of the aperture is expressed as an f - number - like f/8 or f/11.






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






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






26. 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






27. A form of painting in which tiny dots of primary - colors are used to generate secondary colors. It is very similar to Divisionism - except that where Divisionism is concerned with color theory - Pointillism is more focused on the specific style of b






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






29. Robert Smithson






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






31. AP on an art product means what






32. 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






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






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






35. 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.






36. The central area of a church






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






38. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel






39. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?






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






41. Gouge and chisel






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






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






44. Focused on the depiction of patterns and Arabic calligraphy - rather than on figures - because it is feared by many Muslims that the depiction of the human form is idolatry and thereby a sin against God - forbidden in the Qur'an.






45. To make a quick sketch






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






47. What goes horizontal across a loom?






48. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet






49. 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






50. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space