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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.






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






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






4. Who made large portraits of friends?






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






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






7. 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






8. 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






9. To make a quick sketch






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






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






12. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque






13. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint






14. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?






15. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?






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






17. What type of paper would have a raised texture?






18. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross






19. What city had the first skyscraper?






20. 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






21. 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'.






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






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






24. Polystyrene -Polyurethane






25. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space






26. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.






27. 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.






28. What is another work for low relief?






29. Rene Magritte






30. Paint thinner and brush cleaner






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






32. 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.






33. 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.






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






35. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?






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






37. An art and design principle concerned with the arrangement of one or more elements in a work of art so that they appear symmetrical (even) or asymmetrical (uneven) in design and proportion.






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






39. Used in water printing






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






41. Robert Smithson






42. 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.






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






44. 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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45. Made out of Metal






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






47. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston






48. Monticello was build in what architectual style?






49. What color do two secondary colors make?






50. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?