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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. 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






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






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






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






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






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






7. In art - the perception of depth in nature as enhanced by haze in the atmosphere; how the appearance of objects is altered over distance by the effects of the air between the viewer and the object






8. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?






9. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.






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






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






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






13. 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






14. Who said ' less is more'?






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






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






17. Continuous frieze






18. The laying of paint thickly






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






20. What goes horizontal across a loom?






21. 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






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






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






24. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)






25. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






26. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space






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






28. Meaning to rub a crayon or other tool onto paper or other material - which is placed onto a textured surface - in order to create the texture of that surface on the paper.






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






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






31. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.






32. Woven wall hangings.






33. 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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34. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?






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






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






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






38. Made out of Metal






39. Gouge and chisel






40. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?






41. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work






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






43. rayons resistant to what?






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






45. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum






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






47. Symmetrical balance

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48. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points






49. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?






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