1.7 Quiz

A work that is created in small scale can communicate

Intimacy

In The School of Athens, Raphael focused our attention on two Greek philosophers positioned in the center of the work. They are ________ and ________.

Plato ... Aristotle

This Greek sculptor wrote a treatise on how to create a statue of a human being with perfect proportions.

Polykleitos

In his work The School of Athens, this Renaissance artist created figures using the ideal human proportions developed by the ancient Greeks

Raphael

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen collaborated to create Mistos, a larger-than-life sculpture of this everyday item.

a book of matches

Italian Renaissance painter Raphael's The School of Athens depicts ________.

a gathering of great scholars

The ancient Greeks designed the Parthenon according to the idealized rules of proportion for the human body, creating ________ design.

a harmonious

In ancient Egyptian art, the pharaoh was almost always depicted in this way:

as the largest of all the figures

Robert Lostutter creates his work with a particular scale in mind. That scale relates to these animals:

birds

This use of scale can create an abnormal or supernatural effect, and was used by the Surrealists to do just that

distorted scale

Something done on a monumental scale usually indicates:

epic virtues heroism bravery admiration

An artist would probably use distorted scale if he or she wanted to create a lifelike scene that the viewer could relate to.

false

Photographers cannot be responsible for principles of scale or proportion in their photographs.

false

n traditional African art of the Yoruba tribe, human imagery follows the ideal proportions identified by the ancient Egyptians in palm and hand measurements.

false

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

format

This proportional system uses a ratio of 1:1.618

golden section

The ancient Greek sculptor who created the bronze known as Poseidon (or Zeus) used this part of the body as a standard unit for proportional measurement in the work.

head

When a Yoruba sculptor created a human form, he or she made this body part disproportionately large

head

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

hierarchical

When an artist uses scale to indicate the relative importance of elements in a composition, he or she is employing this kind of scale

hierarchical scale

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

intimacy

The Swedish-born artist Claes Oldenburg uses this kind of scale in his sculptures to express admiration for the little things in everyday life

monumental

The kind of scale used for objects that appear larger than they are in real life is called ________ scale

monumental

We perceive scale in relation to

our own size

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

palm

The size relationships between parts of an object, or its ________, affects how a viewer will interpret it

proportions

Henry Peach Robinson created his photographic work Fading Away by using a Golden ________ for the format dimensions

section

In his figural portraits, Robert Lostutter uses this kind of scale to create an intimate viewing experience.

small scale

Rectangles based on the Golden Section can be nested inside each other to create an elegant ________.

spiral

The Flemish artist Jan van Eyck used hierarchical scale to communicate ________ importance in his painting Madonna in a Church

spiritual

Dorothea Tanning's work Eine Kleine Nachtmusik uses deliberately distorted scale to create an abnormal or ________ effect

supernatural

It does not matter if a sculptor is creating a human statue on a monumental scale, or a figure much smaller than lifesize: if the sculptor applies the ratio of the Golden Section, the sculpture will have naturalistic proportions.

true