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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.






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






3. 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.






4. Is a circle - shaped opening in a lens (a hole - really) through which light passes to strike the film. The size of the aperture is expressed as an f - number - like f/8 or f/11.






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






6. What city had the first skyscraper?






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






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






9. Huge stones






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






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






12. Fix






13. Painter and printmaker of Romantism.Held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity - and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. Works: The Song of Los - The Lovers Whirlwind - Ancient of Days






14. A dominant idea or central theme






15. What color do two secondary colors make?






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






17. Paint thinner and brush cleaner






18. Gouge and chisel






19. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein






20. AP on an art product means what






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






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. 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.






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






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






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






27. 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






28. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork






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






30. 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






31. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.






32. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile






33. Air - dry unfired clay






34. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)






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






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






37. Considered one of the greatest printmakers of all time. Working with both woodcuts and copper engravings - he attained a level of detail that is virtually unsurpassed.






38. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?






39. Woven wall hangings.






40. Rocks - pebbles etc - 'a hole can it self have as much shape meaning as a solid mass. The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation. The hole connects one side to the other - making it immediately more three - dimensional. A hole can i






41. What is another work for low relief?






42. Pagoda






43. Rene Magritte






44. 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






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






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






47. 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






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






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