DE Art/ Chapter 5-8 – Flashcards
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Chapter 5 Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" is based on what specific type of perspective?
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One-Point Linear Perspective
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Gustave Caillebotte's "Place de I'Europe on a Rainy Day" is based on what type of perspective?
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Two-Point Linear Perspective
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In Harmony in Red(The Red Room), Henri Matisse deliberately intended to violate the laws of perspective, why?
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His interests were in thing other than pure verisimilitude.
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Paul Cezanne's Madame Cezanne in a "Red Armchair" illustrates that the artist was more interested in?
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Design
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What is the metaphorical significance of the carved sculpture, "Feast Making Spoon, from the Ivory Coast"?
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-Represents the power of the imagination to transform an everyday object into a symbolically charged container of social good.
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Where is the negative space in Rubin Vase?
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In both, depending on how you look it
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Where is the vanishing point in Duccio's "Perspective of Analysis of Annunciation of the Death of the Virgin", from the Maesta Altarpiece?
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At several points in the composition
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In steve DiBenedetto's "Deliverance", the artist uses what to create a sense of space?
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Overlapping Images
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What is the obvious visual element in Matisse's Harmony in Red "The Red Room"?
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Its lack of special depth
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Where is the vanishing point in the "The Last Supper"?
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Jesus's Head
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As is common in Japanese Art, the Kumono Mandala creates the illusion of space by utilizing?
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Oblique Projection
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In "The Dead Christ", the artist used what technique in order to adjust the distortion created by the point of view?
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Foreshortening
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In the Rubin Vase illustration , the black shape can be seen alternately as a foreground object resembling a vase, or as a background space between two white profiled faces. What is this relationship called?
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Figure-ground Reversal
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Although created for different purposes, Barabara Hepworth's "Two Figures" and the African feast-making spoon share, a similar trait. What is it?
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They're both positive forms that contain negative space.
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A picture drawn in perspective that employs a single point of vision is called?
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Monocular Vision
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Why is the stereoscope such an effective means of describing "real" space?
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it mimics binocular vision
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In Axonometric projection, all lines indicating height, width, and depth remain?
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Perpendicular
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There is a contradiction in the appearance of Martin Puryear's "Self". What is it?
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It is much lighter than it appears, because it is hollow .
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As in "Suney", Olafur Eliasson is known for mainly using what " Materials" in his work?
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Light
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When and where was linear perspective first codified (studied, organized, and written down)?
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During the Renaissance in Italy
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Paul Strand's "Abstraction, Porch Shadows" reflects a 20th century effort to challenge the viewer' perspective with?
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-Odd or Distorted Perspective
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In the 15th Century, in Italy, there was a profound redefinition of space with the codification and usage if linear perspective. Some see the same thing happening today with?
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-The increased usage and manipulation of cyberspace and virtual realities.
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Which artist has succeeded in integrating the viewer of their work into digital space?
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-Feng Mengbo
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List three different techniques artists have used to convey the illusion of deep space on a flat, two-dimensional surface.
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-Objects closer to the picture plane are sized larger than objects placed in the distanced. -Overlapping objects create the illusion of one existing in front of the other in space. -They employ a vantage point looking down on scene from overhead.
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What are three reasons architects and engineers use axonometric projection?
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-Eliminates changes in scale seen in linear perspective techniques -All lines are parallel -All sides are at an angle to the picture plane.
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During what period was true scientific perspective perfected?
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Renaissance
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In linear perspective systems, where is the vanishing point located?
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The horizon line
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What created the instant a shape is placed onto a ground?
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a figure- ground reversal
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What is the difference between shape and mass?
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-A shape is two-dimensional measured by height and width -Mass has volume that occupies three dimensional space
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Chapter 6 Hatching and Cross-Hatching are ways of turning line into what?
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Volume
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Mary Casatt has manipulated light and color "In the Loge" to emphasize the?
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The division between male and female spaces
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J.M.W. Turner uses two types of perspective in "Rain, Steam, and Speed-The Great Western Railway". What are they?
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Atmospheric and One-Point
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Closely Spaced parallel lines with hatches that are perpendicular or at a angle?
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Cross-Hatching
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With atmospheric perspective, objects further from the viewer appear?
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Cooler and less distinct
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Nikolai Buglaj's "Racing Sideways" is a commentary on the western convention of?
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Associating blackness with negative qualities
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By the 19th Century, the type of perspective used in paintings such as J.M.W. Turner's "Rain, Steam, and Speed- The Great Western Railway" had come to dominate the thinking of landscape painters, what type is it?
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Aerial or Atmospheric Perspective
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Large Areas of darkness contrasting with light ?
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Tenebrism
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Michelangelo's "Head of a Satyr" Shows the use of?
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Cross-Hatching
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What technique did artists of the Renaissance use to show the effects of light?
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Chiaroscuro
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Which of these does not help to create space in Art?
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Palette
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What is the chosen medium of the sculptor Dan Falvin?
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Fluorescent Lighting
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Technique used to show how light falls across a rounded surface?
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Modeling
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What is the primary subject matter of sculptor of Dan Flavin?
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Light & Color
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DaVinci is largely responsible for formulating the rules of the effects of light and air in the landscape, called?
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Atmospheric Perspective
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With atmospheric perspective, objects further from the viewer appear?
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-Less distinct -Blue in color -Light and Dark contrast Is reduced
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The Background mountains in Davinci's "Madonna of the Rocks" provide a perfect example of?
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Atmospheric Perspective
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The balancing of light and dark in work of art?
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Chiaroscuro
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Closely spaced parallel lines?
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Hatching
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Add black to a hue?
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Shade
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What creates atmospheric or aerial perspective?
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Haze or Humid
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What is highlight?
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Directly reflects the light source
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What is similar in the work of Shirin Neshats an Sugimoto?
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The use of contrast of black and white
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How did artist Pat Steir use light in "Pink Chrysanthemum" and "Night Chrysanthemum"?
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To abstract out point of view
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Buglaj's Piece "Racing Sideways" is a statement about what?
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-Lack of race relations -Lack of class relations -perceptual illusions are equal to cultural illusions
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Chapter 7 Which of these artists created a work titled Pieta?
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Michelangelo
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William A. Garnet took photographs of American landscapes?
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From the window of an airplane he was piloting
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Because Gianlorenzo Bernini's David tells a story of david slaying goliath, it becomes what type of art?
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Narrative
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What is the subject matter Isidro Escamilla's "Virgin of Guadalupe"?
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It depicts the virgin Mary at Tepeyac
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What was the inspiration for Grace Ndiritu's "Still life" white textiles?
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An exhibition of work by Henri Matisse in 2005 in London
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Claude Monet's "Water Lillies", Morning: Willows and Bridget Riley's "Drift No.2" are similar because?
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Mimics the movement of water
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What style of art is created precisely to give us the illusion ore sensation of movement?
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Op. Art
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What are three aspects of texture?
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-Tactility -Surface Quality -Smoothness
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Explain the difference between actual texture and visual texture?
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-Actual texture is the way a surface feels -Visual texture is how the surface appears to feel
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In what way can a large-scale work be considered a temporal art form?
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The spectator moves through time and space to view it
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Alexander Calder's "Mobiles" like Untitled, Move when air currents move through them, making them ?
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Kinetic
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Max Ernst developed a technique called frottage, which involves?
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Rubbing media on a sheet of paper over a textured surface.
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Time-based media like Teresa Hubbard's and Alexander Birchler's "Detached Building" can utilize the element of?
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Sound
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Which is the most obvious difference between Bernini's David and Michangelo's David?
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Bernini's David is caught is the midst of action
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How can texture in a work of art effect our perceptions of that art?
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Texture in a work of art can evoke tactile sensations and feelings in a viewer
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What are two ways to define" action painting"?
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-"Action Painting" prompts the viewer to become actively engaged in the painting -The drips and sweeps of paint record the action of the artist
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Identify the primary element of temporal artworks
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In temporal works, space is always changing
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How does Monet's painting of his lily pond at Giverny, in the Orangerie Museum in Paris make the viewer move through space?
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These large-scale paintings encircle the room so one must move around the space to view them
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Describe the process Max Ernst used to create the figures in "The Horde"?
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-He used technique of frottage. -He placed a sheet of paper over a textured surface. -Rubbed across the paper crayon
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What is significant about the work of Jackson Pollock?
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-Pollock wanted to be completely absorbed in the work of painting -His works have been called "action painting" because the paint he dripped from above the canvas recorded his movements ad gestures. -Large Scale
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Chapter 8 Hokusai's "The Great Wave" makes a statement about scale, in part because?
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Everyone in Japan knows the scale of Mount Fuji
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Chartres Cathedral's rose window best illustrates?
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-Radial Balance -Iconography
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In Enguerrand Quarton's "Coronation of the Virgin" The artist has organized the design of the composition to emphasize the most important part of the composition, which is the?
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Virgin
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In Tai Mahal is a perfect example of?
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Symmetrical Balance
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Where is the focal point in the Baroque painting "Joseph the Carpenter" by Georges de la Tour?
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In the child's (Jesus's) face
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Which of these piece best illustrates the use of variety over unity?
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Louise Lawler's Pollock and Tureen
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The Tai Mahal was built by Shah Jahan?
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As a mausoleum for his favorite wife
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Jan Vermeer's Woman Holding a balance is a perfect example of ?
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A Asymmetrical Balanced Composition
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When an artist deliberately avoids emphasis, we say that the work is?
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afocal
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In Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance, a painting on the wall behind the women depicts ?
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The Last Judgement
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In her painting "Still Life with Lobster", Anna Vallayer-Coster establishes emphasis through?
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The manipulation of light and color
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What Idea was made famous by the ancient greeks as a model of architectural proportion?
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Golden Ratio
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When dealing with balance in a composition, an artist or designer is actually dealing with?
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Visual Weight
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Repetition often implies monotony, yet it also creates a sense of?
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Rhythm
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When each side composition is exactly the same, it shows?
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Absolute Symmetry
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The dimensions of an object, in relation to some constant, such as the human figure, are known as?
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Scale
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Proportion is defined as?
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The relationship between the parts of a composition and the whole
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Frank Gehry has been called a postmodern architect (remember Fred & Ginger building), primarily because?
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He purposely creates a sense of discontinuity by employing variety over unity
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Define the three different types of balance artistic compositions?
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-Symmetrical Balance, in which two sides mirror each other -Asymmetrical Balance, when two sides lack symmetry. A composition that lacks symmetry can still be balanced if sides possess the same visual weight -Radial Balance, in which all the forms radiate outward from a single point
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Define the difference between scale and proportion in art objects.
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-Scale, refers to the relative size of an art object, that is, the dimensions of an object in a relation to the original object it depicts or in relation to the objects around it. -Proportion, refers to the relationship between the parts of an object and the whole.
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Define the term "Postmodernism"
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Is a term used to describe the willfully plural and eclectic art forms of contemporary art, a sense that parts can never form a unified whole. This can be seen in the (Raisin Building) by Frank Gehry, Fred & Ginger, or Pollock and Tureen by Louise Lawler
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The materials that artists use to create their works
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Media
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Refers to even distribution of weight (visual or actual) in a composition.
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Balance
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In Sculpture, it is the physical weight of materials in pounds.
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Actual Weight
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The apparent "Heaviness" or "Lightness" of forms in a composition
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Visual Weight
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A principle of art which occurs any time the artist makes part of the work stand out, in order to draw the viewer's eye there first
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Emphasis
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Is an area to which the artist draws the viewer's attention the most. Strong contrasts of light and color can easily create focal point. It is also possible to make a work that is afocal, or without a single point of focus.
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Focal Point
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Can Imply monotony, but if certain elements are used repeatedly, they can create a visual rhythm.
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Repetition
