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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?






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






3. Who said ' less is more'?






4. What is another work for low relief?






5. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer






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






7. Huge stones






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






9. The genre of painting based on using the camera and photographs to gather information and then from this information - creating a painting that appears to be very realistic like a photograph.






10. Who made large portraits of friends?






11. Example of baroque architecture






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






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






14. The central area of a church






15. Mexican murals painted in what theme?






16. Made out of Metal






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






18. Came in response to Renaissance Art - ominous - otherworldly - and dark in subject. _________ art was heavily influenced by the Counter - reformation and thus more interested in dramatic scenes of saints and history paintings.Art from the Baroque per






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






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






21. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space






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






23. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended






24. Benin sculpture is in what medium?






25. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein






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






27. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve






28. Polystyrene -Polyurethane






29. Focused on the depiction of patterns and Arabic calligraphy - rather than on figures - because it is feared by many Muslims that the depiction of the human form is idolatry and thereby a sin against God - forbidden in the Qur'an.






30. 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.






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






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

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33. 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






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






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






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






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






38. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint






39. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)






40. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile






41. 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






42. The principle in oil painting that suggests each layer of paint should contain more oil than the one beneath. Awareness of this concept helps ensure permanence.

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43. The laying of paint thickly






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






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






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






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






48. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.






49. 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.






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