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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.






2. 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.






3. Who made large portraits of friends?






4. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint






5. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint






6. 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.






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






8. 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






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






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






11. 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






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






13. Most common oil in oil paints






14. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein






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






16. A dominant idea or central theme






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






18. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.






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






20. 3X 5300 pixels






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






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






23. 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.






24. What city had the first skyscraper?






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






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






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






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






29. Polystyrene -Polyurethane






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






31. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum






32. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge






33. 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






34. 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






35. Woven wall hangings.






36. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)






37. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino

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






39. Robert Smithson






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






41. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work






42. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows






43. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.






44. 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






45. 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






46. 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.






47. Paint thinner and brush cleaner






48. 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






49. What goes horizontal across a loom?






50. Continuous frieze