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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. AP on an art product means what






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






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






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






5. 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).






6. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?






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






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






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






10. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space






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






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






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






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






15. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?






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






17. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting






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






19. Most common oil in oil paints






20. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?






21. To make a quick sketch






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






23. What city had the first skyscraper?






24. 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






25. What goes horizontal across a loom?






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






27. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?






28. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?






29. A school - style - or method of painting - adopted chiefly by 17th - century Spanish and Neapolitan painters - esp Caravaggio - characterized by large areas of dark colours - usually relieved with a shaft of ligh






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






31. Woven wall hangings.






32. Made out of Metal






33. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.






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






35. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.






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






37. 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.






38. Known for stone. The term was invented by 19th century art historians - especially for Romanesque architecture - which retained many basic features of Roman architectural style - most notably round - headed arches - but also barrel vaults - apses - a






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






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






41. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve






42. 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






43. A dominant idea or central theme






44. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.






45. Symmetrical balance

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46. What type of paper would have a raised texture?






47. 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






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






49. 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.






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