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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. The capital building was built in what architectual style?






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






3. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?






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






5. 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.






6. 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






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






8. Example of baroque architecture






9. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






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






11. 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






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






13. Origin is Mayan






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






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






16. 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






17. Made out of Metal






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






19. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton






20. Robert Smithson






21. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino


22. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






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






24. ...






25. 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.






26. Monticello was build in what architectual style?






27. What city had the first skyscraper?






28. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?






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






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






31. Pagoda






32. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.






33. 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






34. Who said ' less is more'?






35. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.






36. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.






37. 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).






38. 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






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






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






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






42. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?






43. Gouge and chisel






44. Is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions.


45. 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






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






47. 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.






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






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






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