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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston






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3. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air






4. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.






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






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






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






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






9. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum






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






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






12. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?






13. A painting technique in which - as the name suggests - a little bit of paint is put on a dry brush. When applied - it produces a broken - scratchy effect.






14. The laying of paint thickly






15. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint






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






17. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.






18. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






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






20. 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






21. Rene Magritte






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






23. 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'.






24. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?






25. 3X 5300 pixels






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






27. Mexican murals painted in what theme?






28. Air - dry unfired clay






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






30. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?






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

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32. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.






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






34. 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.






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






36. 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).






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






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






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






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






41. 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.






42. Monticello was build in what architectual style?






43. 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).






44. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?






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






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






47. Example of baroque architecture






48. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?






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