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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)






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






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






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






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






7. Air - dry unfired clay






8. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space






9. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?






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






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






12. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque






13. rayons resistant to what?






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






15. Rene Magritte






16. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?






17. 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).






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






19. 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.






20. 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






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






22. 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






23. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs






24. 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).






25. Known for stone. The term was invented by 19th century art historians - especially for Romanesque architecture - which retained many basic features of Roman architectural style - most notably round - headed arches - but also barrel vaults - apses - a






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






27. A school - style - or method of painting - adopted chiefly by 17th - century Spanish and Neapolitan painters - esp Caravaggio - characterized by large areas of dark colours - usually relieved with a shaft of ligh






28. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge






29. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.






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






31. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.






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






33. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.






34. Used in water printing






35. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax






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






37. Continuous frieze






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






39. 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.






40. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven






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






42. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.






43. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.






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






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






46. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.






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






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






49. Woven wall hangings.






50. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.