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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. A painting medium in which pigment is mixed with water - soluble glutinous materials such as size or egg yolk. Also called poster color - poster paint.






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






3. Monticello was build in what architectual style?






4. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.






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






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






7. 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.






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






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






10. Polystyrene -Polyurethane






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






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






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






14. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.






15. Paint thinner and brush cleaner






16. Who said ' less is more'?






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






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






19. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?






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






21. Made out of Metal






22. Mexican murals painted in what theme?






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






24. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?






25. Huge stones






26. 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






27. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque






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






29. Used in water printing






30. 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






31. Painter and printmaker of Romantism.Held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity - and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. Works: The Song of Los - The Lovers Whirlwind - Ancient of Days






32. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?






33. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points






34. Example of baroque architecture






35. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?






36. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.






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






38. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.






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






40. 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






41. 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).






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






43. AP on an art product means what






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






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






46. The central area of a church






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






48. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein






49. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum






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