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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?






2. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.






3. Origin is Mayan






4. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.






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






6. 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.






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






8. The second oldest medium after encaustic. It was used by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks and perfected by the icon painters during the last 100 years of the old Byzantine Empire (400 AD-1202 AD).






9. What is another work for low relief?






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






11. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof






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






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






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






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






16. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve






17. Cyan - Magenta - Yellow - Key (blacK). This ystem is used for printing. For mixing of pigments - it is better to use the secondary colours - since they mix subtractively instead of additively.






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






19. The central area of a church






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






21. Fix






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






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






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






25. Made by Gustav Eiffel - Eiffel - marks the centennial celebration of the French Revolution. Liberty - iconic symbol of freedom and of the United States. French gave the US - statue of liberty






26. 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






27. 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.






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






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






30. 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






31. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein






32. rayons resistant to what?






33. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?






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






35. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space






36. Used in water printing






37. 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).






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






39. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum






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






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






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






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






44. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?






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






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






47. 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






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






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






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