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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel






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






3. 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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4. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?






5. What goes horizontal across a loom?






6. Air - dry unfired clay






7. 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.






8. 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






9. 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.






10. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio






11. Used in water printing






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






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






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






15. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.






16. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air






17. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?






18. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness






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






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






21. Pagoda






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






23. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.






24. What is another work for low relief?






25. Painter and printmaker of Romantism.Held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity - and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. Works: The Song of Los - The Lovers Whirlwind - Ancient of Days






26. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended






27. 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






28. Benin sculpture is in what medium?






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






30. A form of painting in which tiny dots of primary - colors are used to generate secondary colors. It is very similar to Divisionism - except that where Divisionism is concerned with color theory - Pointillism is more focused on the specific style of b






31. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.






32. A painting medium in which pigment is mixed with water - soluble glutinous materials such as size or egg yolk. Also called poster color - poster paint.






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






35. Gray made by mixing complements






36. Woven wall hangings.






37. 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.






38. Cyan - Magenta - Yellow - Key (blacK). This ystem is used for printing. For mixing of pigments - it is better to use the secondary colours - since they mix subtractively instead of additively.






39. 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).






40. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve






41. Who made large portraits of friends?






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






43. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein






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






45. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work






46. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.






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






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






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






50. Relative darkness or lightness of a color