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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.






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






3. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended






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






5. To make a quick sketch






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






7. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)






8. Paint thinner and brush cleaner






9. Used in water printing






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






11. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.






12. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world






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






14. ...






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






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






17. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.






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






19. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.






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






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. What goes horizontal across a loom?






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






24. A dominant idea or central theme






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






26. Woven wall hangings.






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






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






29. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork






30. Example of baroque architecture






31. Who said ' less is more'?






32. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






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






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






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






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






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






38. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. 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






46. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?






47. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.






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






49. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.






50. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.