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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?






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






3. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR






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






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






6. 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.






7. 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






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






9. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.






10. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?






11. Origin is Mayan






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






13. AP on an art product means what






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






15. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge






16. Rocks - pebbles etc - 'a hole can it self have as much shape meaning as a solid mass. The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation. The hole connects one side to the other - making it immediately more three - dimensional. A hole can i






17. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended






18. Cyan - Magenta - Yellow - Key (blacK). This ystem is used for printing. For mixing of pigments - it is better to use the secondary colours - since they mix subtractively instead of additively.






19. 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






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






21. 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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22. Who made large portraits of friends?






23. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






24. Continuous frieze






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






26. Robert Smithson






27. The central area of a church






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






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






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






31. 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






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






33. In oil painting - the technique of brushing one layer of paint on top of another in a way that reveals some of the under color.






34. 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'.






35. 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






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






37. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.






38. 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






39. What color do two secondary colors make?






40. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space






41. What is another work for low relief?






42. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?






43. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.






44. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?






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






46. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile






47. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.






48. Used her life experiences into her artwork - including her marriage - her miscarriages - and her numerous operations - works often are characterized by their stark portrayals of pain - combined elements of the classic religious Mexican tradition with






49. Made out of Metal






50. 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.