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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. Made out of Metal






2. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?






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






4. 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






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






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






7. Woven wall hangings.






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






9. To mount a white and black photo - use...






10. Who said ' less is more'?






11. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs






12. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.






13. What type of paper would have a raised texture?






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






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






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






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






18. Origin is Mayan






19. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?






20. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?






21. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.






22. Continuous frieze






23. 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).






24. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge






25. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross






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






27. Symmetrical balance

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






29. 3X 5300 pixels






30. 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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31. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?






32. 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






33. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.






34. 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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35. Robert Smithson






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






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






38. 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.






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






40. 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






41. 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.






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






43. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.






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






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






46. Paint thinner and brush cleaner






47. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral






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






49. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?






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