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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam






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






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






4. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?






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






6. 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).






7. Statuettes were mostly used for two purposes: to incarnate a spirit of the bush - and the second was to represent a spouse from the other world 'Blolo Bla' or 'Blolo Bian'.






8. 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






9. What color do two secondary colors make?






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






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






12. 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






13. ...






14. AP on an art product means what






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






16. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.






24. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino

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






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






27. Benin sculpture is in what medium?






28. A German performance artist - sculptor - installation artist - graphic artist - art theorist and pedagogue of art. Artwork: Performance : How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare






29. Woven wall hangings.






30. Who said ' less is more'?






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






32. Paint thinner and brush cleaner






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






34. 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






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






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






37. 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






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






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






40. Monticello was build in what architectual style?






41. To make a quick sketch






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






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






44. Made out of Metal






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






46. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby






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






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






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






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