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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)






2. A dominant idea or central theme






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






4. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






5. Gouge and chisel






6. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design






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






8. Air - dry unfired clay






9. A painting medium in which pigment is mixed with water - soluble glutinous materials such as size or egg yolk. Also called poster color - poster paint.






10. Made by Gustav Eiffel - Eiffel - marks the centennial celebration of the French Revolution. Liberty - iconic symbol of freedom and of the United States. French gave the US - statue of liberty






11. Monticello was build in what architectual style?






12. 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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13. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?






14. 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).






15. Rene Magritte






16. 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






17. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?






18. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein






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






20. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space






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






22. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.






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






24. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.






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






26. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






27. 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






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






29. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light. More sensitive (faster) films have higher ISO numbers and require less exposure in order to make a properly - exposed picture.






30. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge






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






32. 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






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






34. What city had the first skyscraper?






35. The central area of a church






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






37. 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






38. Mexican murals painted in what theme?






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






40. 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






41. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.






42. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston






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






44. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended






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






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






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






48. 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






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 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.







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