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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy






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






3. 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






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






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






6. A painting medium in which pigment is mixed with water - soluble glutinous materials such as size or egg yolk. Also called poster color - poster paint.






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






8. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.






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






10. 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






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. Paint thinner and brush cleaner






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






14. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.






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






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






17. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?


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






19. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware






20. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile






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






22. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum






23. Rene Magritte






24. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?






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






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






27. Is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions.


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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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






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






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






38. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






39. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve






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






41. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs






42. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite






43. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light. More sensitive (faster) films have higher ISO numbers and require less exposure in order to make a properly - exposed picture.






44. 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.






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






46. AP on an art product means what






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






48. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross






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






50. Mexican murals painted in what theme?