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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. 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.






2. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.






3. Air - dry unfired clay






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






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






6. 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






7. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile






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






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






10. Paint thinner and brush cleaner






11. The central area of a church






12. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting






13. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended






14. Most common oil in oil paints






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






16. Woven wall hangings.






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






18. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein






19. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space






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






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






23. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam






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






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






26. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?






27. Came in response to the darkness and heaviness of Baroque art - but did continue many of the ideals specified during the 17th century. Rococo related much more to decorative shapes as well as the natural and organic. Swirling shapes and asymmetrical






28. Fix






29. Polystyrene -Polyurethane






30. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum






31. 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






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






33. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers






34. Known by its massive quality - its thick walls - round arches - sturdy piers - groin vaults - large towers and decorative arcading. Each building has clearly defined forms and they are frequently of very regular - symmetrical plan so that the overall






35. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?






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






37. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof






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






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






40. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?






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






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






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






44. 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.






45. 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






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






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






48. 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.






49. What goes horizontal across a loom?






50. 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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