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The dark printed words on the page of a book are easily read because they are printed on a light ground. This is an example of the principle of

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contrast

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One definition of this element is \"a mark that connects two points\"

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line

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The line that defines the edge of a shape is called the

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boundary

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The lines that create the image of the Nazca Spider \"drawing define the __ of a __

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boundary of a shape

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In his drawing of the Ducal Palace in Venice, Canaletto used line to accentuate the patterned facade of the building so that the viewer has a better sense of

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surface

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Mel Bochner used __ line in the work Vertigo because it is controlled and measured

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diagonal or regular Pg 50

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The French artist Andre Masson wished to explore the psychological source of creativity through his \"automatic\" ink drawings of __ lines

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irregular

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The scribbled appearance of Jean Dubeffet's Suit aver 7 Personnages characterizes it as a drawn that exhibits __

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controlled line

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A line that is continuous mark is

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actual line

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A line that gives viewers the impression that they are seeing a line where there is not a continuous mark is

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an implied line

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If vertical ones communicate strength, horizontals calm, and diagonals action, then a vacation resort might want to choose a log consisting of __ lines in order to show peaceful repose

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horizontal

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A shape made of perfectly straight lines would probably be classified as __ shape

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a geometric

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An empty space defined by its surround is known as __ shape

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a negative

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The positive and negative shapes in M.C. Escher's print Sky and Water I balance each other and are the example of

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figure-ground reversal

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These four visual elements of art - form, volume, mass, and texture - are present in __ works of art

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three dimensional

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Forms such as pyramids, which tend to be precise and regular are known as __ froms

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geometric

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To imply greater depth, the sculptor who created the relief carvings on the outside of the Ara Pacis Augustae carved the figures in the __ more deeply that those that are in the background, in order to make them stand out more

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round

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This type of relief, which takes its name from the French word of low, does not imply great depth.

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bas-relief

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The element of art that defines the amount of space occupied by an object is

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volume

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Marisol was commissioned to create a sculpture of the Catholic missionary Father Damien. A stout figure in heavy bronze, the statue possesses a weighty __ that communicates the strong beliefs and courageous determination of the priest

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mass

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Marisol's work Father Damien was created to memorialize the heroism of a priest who lost his life helping the victims of leprosy. This sculpture stands in front o the State Capital Building in the U. S. State of

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Hawaii

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When we touch an object we experience a tactile sensation that artists refer to as __ texture

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actual

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The Belgian Surrealist artist ___ created The Treachery of Images, a work that calls our attention to the illusionary characteristics of paintings

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Rene Magritte

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The lightness or darkness of a surface is the element of art called

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value

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Artists can create a sense of ___ by using light and dark values

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The chiaroscuro method uses five defined values: cast shadow, reflected light, core shadow, light and ___

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highligh

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The French artist Pierre-Paul Prud'hon created chiaroscuro by using ___ chalk on paper

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black and white

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The process of using a series of parallel lines set close to one another to differentiate planes of value in a work of art is called

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hatching

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When using a series of squares that are exactly the same shape, implied depth can by achieved by ___

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One method used to establish depth in Hokusai's THE GREAT WAVE OFF SHORE AT KANAGAWA involves placing shapes higher or lower on the page. This process from creating depth is called

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relative position

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An artist can use color to indicate depth. When a color is very pure and intense then it seems to be

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closer

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An artist paints a scene with a large mountain, which lacks detail and is out of focus, and a tree which is sharply defined and bright green. The viewer might assume that the mountain is

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further away

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This system, which derives its name from the Green meaning \"equal measure\", uses diagonal parallel lines to communicate depth

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isometric perspective

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The medieval Arabic scholar Alhazen used a camera obscure, a device that later helped artists to understand the basic tenets of linear perspective. Camera obscure is a Latin phrase. What is the closest English translation

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dark room

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One-point perspective does convey depth, but it has limited applications due to its reliance on a signal

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vanishing point

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This type of perspective is used when an object is being viewed from an angle rather than from directly in from

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two-point

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The artist can more readily reflect the complexities of the real world by using more than one vanishing point. This is known as __ perspective

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multi-point

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This German artist illustrated how a figure can be drawn from an oblique angle for his own text on drawing

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Albrecht Durer

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In Mantegna's THE LAMENTATION OF THE DEAD CHRIST, the body of Jesus is portrayed at an extreme angle. This __ view creates an unusual perspective and grabs the viewer's attention

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foreshortened

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This is the most vivid element of art and design.

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Color

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If you were to look at a t-shirt that absorbed the colors violet, blue, free, yellow, and orange, what color would the t-shirt appear to be

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When __ colors are mixed, they make a duller and darker color because more of the visible spectrum is absorbed

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subtractive

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The term used for referring to the basic colors of the spectrum is

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hue

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The element of art that describes the relative lightness or darkness of a hue, compared to another hue, is known as

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value

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A color that is lighter than its basic hue is known as a tint. A color that is darker than its basic hue is called a

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shade

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A color that is almost gray has a __ saturation

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low

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When complementary colors are used next to each other in a composition, they produce a visual anomaly called simultaneous contrast. This visual effect makes the colors appear to __ along the boundary where the two colors meet

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vibrate

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By using __ color scheme in his painting TWILIGHT IN THE WILDERNESS, Frederic Edwin Church intensified the drama of the vast natural landscape

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A Fauvist

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If you were to design an eye-catching poster using only two colors, the combination that would most stand our by passersby would be

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When Matisse executed the work ICARUS, he could no longer hold a brush for long periods of time. Instead he created it using this process

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paper cutouts

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This British artist used both analogous and complementary color in his work INTERIOR WITH FIGURES

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Howard Hodgkin

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Color __ can be relative to the other colors nearby. For example, violet can be warm if we see it next to a hot color like red, or cool if we see it next to a colder color like blue

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temperature

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Why did the ceramist who created the underglaze-painted lamp from the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, uses green as one of the main colors

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green has positive associations in Islamic art

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The French artist Georges Seurat employed a new technique to create a jewel-like diffusion of light and vibration of color in his work THE CIRCUS. This type of painting, made up of small dots of color is known as

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pointillism

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Most commercial color painting is achieved using four separate colors, represented by the matrix

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CMYK

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In a digital display, color is created when light cells called __ illuminate

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phosphors

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__ in particular is an element of art that can engage the viewer and express a wide range of emotions

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color

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Paul Gauguin's use of color __ in his 1889 depiction of a crucified Christ enhances the work's connection with the seasons and expresses a message of optimism and rebirth

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yellow

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Nancy Holt created this work, which intertwines the passaged of time with the movement of the sun

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SOLAR ROTARY

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The Italian Futurist artist Giacomo Balla implied motion by repetition and inference in his work __ OF A DOG ON A LEASH

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DYNAMISM

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The Italian Furturist artist Giacomo Balla illustrated the rapid movement of a dog running on a leash by painting a series of __ in order to give the impression that we are seeing motion as it happens

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repeating marks

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In a figure in an artwork has drapery billowing out behind it, and appears to have multiple feet in different positions, the viewer might assume that this figure is

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running forward

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This art movement of the 1960s relies on perceptual anomalies of the human eye to create dynamic effects

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Op Art

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This spinning toy gives a sense of motion to a viewer when he or she looks through small slits in its cylindrical drum at a strip of changing pictures

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zoetrope

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DOUBLE INDEMNITY, a 1944 movie by Billy Wilder, is an example of this genre of mid-twentieth-century cinema

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film noir

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In his film DOUBLE INDEMNITY, Billy Wilder created dramatic effect by using this filmmaking strategy.

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Intense lighting

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This type of sculpture can move and change its visual form

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kinetic

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What element describes the imposition of order and harmony on a design

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unity

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The three kinds of unity are

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compositional, conceptual, gestalt

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Compositional unity strikes an interesting balance between the monotony of too much similarity and the chaos of too much __ in a work of art

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variety

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Katsushika Hokusai, in his woodcut THE GREAT WAVE OFF SHORE AT KANAGAWA, simplified and ordered the visual elements in the work to create

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compositional unity

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The design by I. Michael Interior Design created ___ and interesting composition by using a balance of curved and straight lines

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a harmonious

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In his painting THE FLAGELLATION, Italian artist Piero della Francesca created unity by concentrating on groups of figures in two different areas ____ and ___

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foreground and background

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Romare Bearden depicted a hectic street scene in his work THE DOVE. He created a sense of unit and stability in the busy composition with an implied ___ shape

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triagular

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Romare Bearden's work THE DOVE, uses an underlying ___ reflecting the city streets to create a sense of order

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grid

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The German word that refers to something in which the whole seems greater than the sums of its parts is

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gestalt

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The story of Vishnu dreaming the universe, as depicted in an Indian relief carving is derived from the ___ religion

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Hindu

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Variety can ___ a design

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invigorate

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The symmetrical Chinese motif appears in art as a monster that is made from many other designs

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t'ao t'ieh

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___balance is achieved when two halves of a composition are not mirror images of eachother

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asymmetrical

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In his work Six Persimmons, the thirteenth-century Chinese monk Muqi used different visual weights on each side of the composition. This is known as ___ balance

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asymmetrical

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If an artist painted a steer scene with one large building not he left-hand side, and two smaller buildings on the right-hand side, this would be an example of ___ balance

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An artist might use a small scale for a portrait of a lover because it implies

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This type of scale is common in the relief sculpture of ancient Egypt, where it is used to indicated social importance

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hierarchical

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This group of artists sometimes used distorted scale to create dreamlike images that subvert our conscious experiences

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Surrealists

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In two-dimensional art, this is the area in which an artist creates their work

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format

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In ancient Egypt this part of the human body was used as a standard of measurement. Six of these equal a cubit

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palm

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The ancient Greek sculpture who created the bronze known as POSEIDON used this part of the body as a standard unit for proportion measurement in the work

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head

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Any of the ___ elements of art can help forces our interest on specific areas of work of art

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elements

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The undecorated areas of the Peruvian double-chambered vessel with mouse are __ compared to other areas that are patterned or modeled in three dimensions

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organic

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This is the specific part in an area of emphasis to which the viewer's eye is drawn

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focal point

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if an artist painted a garden with one red flower in a field of yellow flowers, whiz would be an example of using color to create contrast. For the viewer, the single red flower would be __

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THE FUNERAL OF ST. BONAVENTURE is a painting by the Spanish artist

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Francisco de Zurbanran

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A design repeated as a unit in a pattern is called a

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motif

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In the painting THE THIRD OF MAY 1808, this Spanish artist used alternating rhythm to contrast \"good\" and \"bad\".

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Francisco Goya

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An artwork can be described as non-objective if its subject matter is

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unrecognizable

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Allan Houser's work REVERIE IS

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abstract and representational

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Jean-August-Dominique Ingres's representational portrayal of the woman in Grande Odalisque ___ her body

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distorts

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What does the cross on Velasquez's tunic in LAS MENINAS signify

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that he was knighted after his death. pg. 162

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Thomas Struth's MUSEO DEL PRADO 7 is

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stylized

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