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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.






2. Known by its massive quality - its thick walls - round arches - sturdy piers - groin vaults - large towers and decorative arcading. Each building has clearly defined forms and they are frequently of very regular - symmetrical plan so that the overall






3. 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






4. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork






5. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?






6. 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.






7. 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).






8. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve






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






10. 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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11. A dominant idea or central theme






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






13. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?






14. 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






15. 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






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






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






18. Gouge and chisel






19. Pagoda






20. What is another work for low relief?






21. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows






22. Made out of Metal






23. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.






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






25. The laying of paint thickly






26. Is a circle - shaped opening in a lens (a hole - really) through which light passes to strike the film. The size of the aperture is expressed as an f - number - like f/8 or f/11.






27. Fix






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






29. Used in water printing






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






31. His versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man






32. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.






33. 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






34. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque






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






36. Symmetrical balance

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






38. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?






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






40. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.






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






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






43. 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.






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






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






46. Mexican murals painted in what theme?






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






48. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






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






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