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This American painter used small abstract motifs to create a huge self-portrait

Chuck Close

This art movement, of which Hans Arp was a member, valued randomness, absurdity, and nonsense over rational or orderly patterns.

Dada

This proportional system uses a ration of 1:1.618.

Golden Section

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

Surrealists

Artists can use _______ to organize the elements in a work and draw our attention to areas of emphasis and focal points.

direction, dramatic contrasts, placement, line

The area covered by a pattern is called the

field

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

focal point

The ancient Greek sculptor who created the bronze known as Poseidon (1.136) used this part of the body as a standard unit for proportional measurement in the work.

head

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

heirarchical

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

motif

The recurrence of a single element in a work of art is called _______.

pattern

The relationship between the sizes of different parts of a work make up it's _______.

proportions

This Flemish artist Jan van Eyck used hierarchical scale to communicate _______ importance in his painting Madonna in a church.

spiritual

The opposite of emphasis is _______.

subordination