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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. 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.






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






3. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space






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






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






6. Rene Magritte






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






8. 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).






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






10. 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






11. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)






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






13. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?






14. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.






15. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.






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






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






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






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






20. 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






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






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






23. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint






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






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






26. Origin is Mayan






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






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






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






30. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel






31. What color do two secondary colors make?






32. Example of baroque architecture






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






34. 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.






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






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






37. Made out of Metal






38. 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






39. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.






40. Who made large portraits of friends?






41. 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.






42. Monticello was build in what architectual style?






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






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






45. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?






46. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein






47. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?






48. Robert Smithson






49. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum






50. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows