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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. 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.






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






3. Continuous frieze






4. Origin is Mayan






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






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






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






8. To make a quick sketch






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






10. 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






11. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?






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






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






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






15. What is another work for low relief?






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






17. Robert Smithson






18. Gray made by mixing complements






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






21. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino

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






23. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.






24. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.






25. Italian term meaning smoke - describing a very delicate gradation of light and shade in the modeling of figures; often ascribed to Da Vinci's work.






26. What color do two secondary colors make?






27. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.






28. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






29. 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).






30. A dominant idea or central theme






31. Who said ' less is more'?






32. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.






33. In oil painting - the technique of brushing one layer of paint on top of another in a way that reveals some of the under color.






34. Most common oil in oil paints






35. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR






36. What goes horizontal across a loom?






37. 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






38. 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






39. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross






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






41. 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






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






44. A school - style - or method of painting - adopted chiefly by 17th - century Spanish and Neapolitan painters - esp Caravaggio - characterized by large areas of dark colours - usually relieved with a shaft of ligh






45. Harlem Renaissance artist known for etchings - was a German painter - printmaker - and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition in the first half of the 20th century. Her empathy for the less fortunate






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






47. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?






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






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






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