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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral






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






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






4. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross






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. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.






7. Symmetrical balance

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






9. AP on an art product means what






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






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






12. Air - dry unfired clay






13. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum






14. What goes horizontal across a loom?






15. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?






16. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?






17. Meaning to rub a crayon or other tool onto paper or other material - which is placed onto a textured surface - in order to create the texture of that surface on the paper.






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






19. 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.






20. Gouge and chisel






21. Used her life experiences into her artwork - including her marriage - her miscarriages - and her numerous operations - works often are characterized by their stark portrayals of pain - combined elements of the classic religious Mexican tradition with






22. Possin was a French painter in the classical style.Themes of tragedy and death are prevalent in Poussin's work.[13] Et in Arcadia ego - a subject he painted twice (second version is seen at right) - exemplifies his cerebral approach. In this composit

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23. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR






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






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






26. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)






27. What city had the first skyscraper?






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






29. 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).






30. rayons resistant to what?






31. Gray made by mixing complements






32. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.






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






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






35. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.






36. 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






37. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?






38. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam






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






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






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






42. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.






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






44. Example of baroque architecture






45. To mount a white and black photo - use...






46. In art - the perception of depth in nature as enhanced by haze in the atmosphere; how the appearance of objects is altered over distance by the effects of the air between the viewer and the object






47. Used in water printing






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






49. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve






50. Who made large portraits of friends?