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Praxis 2 Art

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






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






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






4. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile






5. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven






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






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






8. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome






9. What is another work for low relief?






10. Rene Magritte






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






12. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?






13. What city had the first skyscraper?






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






15. Robert Smithson






16. 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






17. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.






18. 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






19. Mexican murals painted in what theme?






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






21. ...






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






23. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?






24. 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






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






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






27. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.






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






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






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






31. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve






32. 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






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






34. 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






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






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






37. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque






38. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral






39. 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.






40. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)






41. AP on an art product means what






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






43. What type of paper would have a raised texture?






44. Harlem Renaissance artist known for etchings - was a German painter - printmaker - and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition in the first half of the 20th century. Her empathy for the less fortunate






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






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






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






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






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






50. 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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