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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
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1. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.






2. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?

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3. 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






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






5. 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






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






7. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.






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






9. 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






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






11. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque






12. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?






13. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society






14. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)






15. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum






16. Relative darkness or lightness of a color






17. Example of baroque architecture






18. 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






19. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint






20. 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






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






22. AP on an art product means what






23. Monticello was build in what architectual style?






24. The laying of paint thickly






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






26. Symmetrical balance

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27. Mexican murals painted in what theme?






28. Made out of Metal






29. 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.






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






31. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.






32. Polystyrene -Polyurethane






33. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?






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






35. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.






36. Origin is Mayan






37. 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.






38. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile






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






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






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






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






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






45. 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.






46. 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






47. Who made large portraits of friends?






48. Pagoda






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






50. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness