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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware






2. 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).






3. Used in water printing






4. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?






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






6. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution






7. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile






8. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein






9. ...






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






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






12. What goes horizontal across a loom?






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






14. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge






15. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space






16. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy






17. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.






18. What color do two secondary colors make?






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






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






21. The laying of paint thickly






22. 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






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






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






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






26. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?






27. 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.






28. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel






29. 3X 5300 pixels






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






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






32. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended






33. 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.






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






35. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?






36. 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






37. 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






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






39. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?






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






41. Most common oil in oil paints






42. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans






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






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






45. Gouge and chisel






46. 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.






47. A dominant idea or central theme






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






49. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush






50. 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.