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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.






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






3. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.






11. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?






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






13. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?






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

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






16. A ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both. Ancient Ea ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the su






17. Symmetrical balance

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18. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space






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






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






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






22. Huge stones






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






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






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






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






27. 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.






28. Fix






29. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof






30. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve






31. Is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions.

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32. 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.






33. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy






34. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino

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35. 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.






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






37. 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






38. Gray made by mixing complements






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






40. AP on an art product means what






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






42. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio






43. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge






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






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






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






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






48. What city had the first skyscraper?






49. Robert Smithson






50. Who said ' less is more'?