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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.






2. What is another work for low relief?






3. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.






4. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?






5. The art of working raised and ornamental designs in threads of silk - cotton - gold - silver - or other material - upon any woven fabric - leather - paper - etc. - with a needle.






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






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

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






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






10. 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).






11. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.






22. 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






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






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






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






26. 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.






27. The capital building was built in what architectual style?






28. 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






29. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. AP on an art product means what






37. Fix






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






39. Who said ' less is more'?






40. 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






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






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






43. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.






44. Symmetrical balance

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






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






47. A ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both. Ancient Ea ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the su






48. A dominant idea or central theme






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






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