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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society






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






3. Used her life experiences into her artwork - including her marriage - her miscarriages - and her numerous operations - works often are characterized by their stark portrayals of pain - combined elements of the classic religious Mexican tradition with






4. Rocks - pebbles etc - 'a hole can it self have as much shape meaning as a solid mass. The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation. The hole connects one side to the other - making it immediately more three - dimensional. A hole can i






5. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)






6. Polystyrene -Polyurethane






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






8. 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






9. Mexican murals painted in what theme?






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






11. Continuous frieze






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






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






14. 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






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






16. Made out of Metal






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






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






19. Rene Magritte






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






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






22. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?






23. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby






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






25. 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.






26. ...






27. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve






28. To make a quick sketch






29. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?






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






31. 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






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






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






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






35. Gray made by mixing complements






36. 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


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






38. What goes horizontal across a loom?






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






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






41. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?






42. 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.






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






44. Monticello was build in what architectual style?






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






46. 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






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






48. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.






49. Air - dry unfired clay






50. What city had the first skyscraper?