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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)






2. rayons resistant to what?






3. 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).






4. To make a quick sketch






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






6. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?






7. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)






8. 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






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






10. 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






11. Who made large portraits of friends?






12. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston






13. Air - dry unfired clay






14. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended






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






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






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






18. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross






19. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.






20. A ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both. Ancient Ea ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the su






21. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome






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






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






24. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.






25. 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.






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






27. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?






28. The laying of paint thickly






29. Used in water printing






30. Origin is Mayan






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






32. His versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man






33. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum






34. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?






35. 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






36. Gouge and chisel






37. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.






38. 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.






39. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile






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






41. Paint thinner and brush cleaner






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






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






44. 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.






45. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.






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






47. To mount a white and black photo - use...






48. 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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49. What color do two secondary colors make?






50. Example of baroque architecture