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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?






2. 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.






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






4. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge






5. Continuous frieze






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






7. 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.






8. A German performance artist - sculptor - installation artist - graphic artist - art theorist and pedagogue of art. Artwork: Performance : How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare






9. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv






10. 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






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






12. 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.






13. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.






14. 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.






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






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






17. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended






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






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






20. 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






21. 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.






22. AP on an art product means what






23. Paint thinner and brush cleaner






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






25. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein






26. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.






27. 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).






28. What color do two secondary colors make?






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






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






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






32. Benin sculpture is in what medium?






33. 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'.






34. A form of painting in which tiny dots of primary - colors are used to generate secondary colors. It is very similar to Divisionism - except that where Divisionism is concerned with color theory - Pointillism is more focused on the specific style of b






35. Most common oil in oil paints






36. Sculptor. Major Work: The Thinker - a naturalist - less concerned with monumental expression than with character and emotion. Departing with centuries of tradition - he turned away from the idealism of the Greeks - and the decorative beauty of the Ba






37. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?






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






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






40. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work






41. Monticello was build in what architectual style?






42. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






43. 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.






44. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?






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






46. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve






47. 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






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






49. Robert Smithson






50. 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