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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite






2. Polystyrene -Polyurethane






3. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve






4. 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






5. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work






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






7. Rene Magritte






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






9. 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.






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






11. Italian term meaning smoke - describing a very delicate gradation of light and shade in the modeling of figures; often ascribed to Da Vinci's work.






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






13. Most common oil in oil paints






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






15. 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






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






17. 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






18. A dominant idea or central theme






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






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






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






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






23. ...






24. 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'.






25. Continuous frieze






26. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?






27. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)






28. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?






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

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






31. Used in water printing






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






33. 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.






34. 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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35. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.






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






37. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?






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






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






40. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint






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






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






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






44. 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.






45. 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.






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






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






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






49. 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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50. 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