Art Appreciation Ch 1.6 quiz

(Q003) Katsushika Hokusai's print "The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa" uses compositional unity in which of these ways?

all of the other answers (the wave crests mimic the snow on Mt. Fuji, the placement of the boats in between the waves creates a pattern, textures are repeated throughout the work, the shape of Mt. Fuji is repeated throughout the work)

(Q004) An interior designer can balance curved and straight lines to __________ each other.

complement

A good example of variety in a work would be:

different shapes and colors

(Q002) An artist creates compositional unity by:

organizing all of the visual aspects of the work

(Q011) When Tibetan Buddhist monks create a sand mandala, they are creating a composition that has this kind of balance:

radial

(Q001) Artists face a communication challenge: to find a ________ within the chaos of nature and to select and organize materials into a harmonious composition.

structure

(Q006) A work can still display unity, even if none of the visual elements has anything in common, if:

the elements have conceptual unity

(Q010) The symmetrical design of the building that we know as the Taj Mahal does NOT carry associations of:

the identical twins for which it was built

(Q005) In her abstract works Electric Dress and Untitled, Japanese artist Atsuko Tanaka created ________ through the repetition of lines and circular shapes in bold colors.

unity

(Q009) The focal point of Robert Rauschenberg's sculpture Monogram is:

a stuffed goat

(Q007) Gestalt unity is a term that is derived from which language?

german