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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. What city had the first skyscraper?






2. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work






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






4. 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).






5. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.






6. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross






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






8. rayons resistant to what?






9. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?






10. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space






11. 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






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






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






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






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






16. 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






17. Most common oil in oil paints






18. 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.






19. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color






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






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






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






23. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware






24. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels






25. The principle in oil painting that suggests each layer of paint should contain more oil than the one beneath. Awareness of this concept helps ensure permanence.

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26. Woven wall hangings.






27. 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.






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






29. Benin sculpture is in what medium?






30. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.






31. Who made large portraits of friends?






32. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?






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






34. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?






35. Gouge and chisel






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






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






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






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






40. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino

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41. Fix






42. Robert Smithson






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






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






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






46. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.






47. Example of baroque architecture






48. Continuous frieze






49. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.






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