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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.






2. The capital building was built in what architectual style?






3. A German performance artist - sculptor - installation artist - graphic artist - art theorist and pedagogue of art. Artwork: Performance : How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare






4. Origin is Mayan






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






6. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross






7. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?






8. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world






9. Hard - dense firebrick generally used only in high - stress areas of kiln (floor - burner ports - flues - bagwall) and for corrosive firing processes (salt - soda - wood).






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






11. 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).






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






13. 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'.






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






15. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended






16. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?

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17. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum






18. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.






19. Monticello was build in what architectual style?






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






21. Woven wall hangings.






22. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?






23. 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






24. Huge stones






25. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design






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






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






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






29. 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.






30. 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.






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






32. Who said ' less is more'?






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






34. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?






35. 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






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






37. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work






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






39. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.






40. ...






41. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.






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






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






44. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness






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






46. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?






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






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






49. Benin sculpture is in what medium?






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