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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space






2. 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


3. 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.






4. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware






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






6. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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.






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






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






15. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve






16. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.






17. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)






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


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






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






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






22. 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.


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






24. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein






25. Continuous frieze






26. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution






27. A dominant idea or central theme






28. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome






29. What color do two secondary colors make?






30. Made out of Metal






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






32. The art of working raised and ornamental designs in threads of silk - cotton - gold - silver - or other material - upon any woven fabric - leather - paper - etc. - with a needle.






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






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






35. Fix






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






37. 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'.






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. Huge stones






40. 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






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






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






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






44. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge






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






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






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






48. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.






49. Paint thinner and brush cleaner






50. The laying of paint thickly