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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. 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






2. The central area of a church






3. Robert Smithson






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






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






6. 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






7. 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.






8. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.






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






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






11. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






12. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?






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






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






15. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?






16. 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






17. 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






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






19. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric






20. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?






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






22. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.






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






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






25. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels






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






27. What goes horizontal across a loom?






28. Fix






29. 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






30. 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.






31. 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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32. What city had the first skyscraper?






33. A dominant idea or central theme






34. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven






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






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






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






38. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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).






45. 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






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






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






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






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