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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. AP on an art product means what






2. 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).






3. 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






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






5. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)






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






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






8. Most common oil in oil paints






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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'.






15. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum






16. The central area of a church






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






18. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric






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






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






21. A ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both. Ancient Ea ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the su






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






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






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






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






26. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.






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






28. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof






29. Benin sculpture is in what medium?






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






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






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






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






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






35. Paint thinner and brush cleaner






36. 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






37. rayons resistant to what?






38. Made out of Metal






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






40. What city had the first skyscraper?






41. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?






42. Symmetrical balance


43. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.






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






45. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge






46. Is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions.


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






49. Example of baroque architecture






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