Art Appreciation Ch. 1.7 – Flashcards
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A work that is created in small scale can communicate:
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Intimacy
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Henry Peach Robinson created his photographic work Fading Away by using a Golden ________ for the format dimensions.
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Section
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In ancient Egyptian art, the pharaoh was almost always depicted in this way:
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As the largest of all the figures
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Italian Renaissance painter Raphael's The School of Athens depicts ________.
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A gathering of great scholars
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Robert Lostutter creates his work with a particular scale in mind. That scale relates to these animals:
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Birds
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Something done on a monumental scale usually indicates:
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epic virtues heroism bravery admiration
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This Greek sculptor wrote a treatise on how to create a statue of a human being with perfect proportions.
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Polykleitos
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This use of scale can create an abnormal or supernatural effect, and was used by the Surrealists to do just that.
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Distorted scale
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We perceive scale in relation to:
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Our own size
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When a Yoruba sculptor created a human form, he or she made this body part disproportionately large:
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Head
