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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended






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






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






4. 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






5. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light. More sensitive (faster) films have higher ISO numbers and require less exposure in order to make a properly - exposed picture.






6. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space






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






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






9. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid






10. Gray made by mixing complements






11. 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.






12. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile






13. Symmetrical balance

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14. Example of baroque architecture






15. rayons resistant to what?






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






17. To make a quick sketch






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






19. 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






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






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






22. Continuous frieze






23. 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






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






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






26. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel






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






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






29. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space






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






31. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






32. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino

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33. 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






34. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.






35. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?






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






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






38. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?






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






40. 3X 5300 pixels






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






42. 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'.






43. Rene Magritte






44. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.






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






46. 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.






47. Huge stones






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






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






50. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.