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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid






2. Origin is Mayan






3. Used in water printing






4. Rene Magritte






5. A painting technique in which - as the name suggests - a little bit of paint is put on a dry brush. When applied - it produces a broken - scratchy effect.






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






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






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






9. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?






10. Meaning to rub a crayon or other tool onto paper or other material - which is placed onto a textured surface - in order to create the texture of that surface on the paper.






11. rayons resistant to what?






12. Made out of Metal






13. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space






14. Monticello was build in what architectual style?






15. 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).






16. 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'.






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






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






19. 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






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






21. Huge stones






22. What color do two secondary colors make?






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






24. What goes horizontal across a loom?






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






26. A ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both. Ancient Ea ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the su






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






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


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






30. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge






31. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)






32. 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






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. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?






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. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space






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






38. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers






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. To make a quick sketch






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






42. The laying of paint thickly






43. Continuous frieze






44. Made by Gustav Eiffel - Eiffel - marks the centennial celebration of the French Revolution. Liberty - iconic symbol of freedom and of the United States. French gave the US - statue of liberty






45. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer






46. 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






47. 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






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






49. Fix






50. 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