Art Appreciation Unit 2 Review
The design by I. Michael Interior Design creates ________ and interesting composition by using a balance of curved and straight lines.
A Harmonious
If an artist painted a garden with one red flower in a field of yellow flowers, this would be an example of using color to create contrast. For the viewer, the single red flower would be ________.
A focal point in the artwork
A pattern with regular intervals creates ________ rhythm.
A repetetive
________ balance is achieved when two halves of a composition are not mirror images of each other.
Asymmetrical
On the island of Belau in the western Pacific, a traditional men's long house is called a ________.
Bai
Creating visual weight and counterweight is part of an artist's use of the element of ________ in creating a work of art.
Balance
Artemisia Gentileschi used directional line brilliantly in her painting Judith Decapitating Holofernes to draw our attention to this point:
Blood spurting from Holofernes Neck
Katsushika Hokusai, in his woodcut "The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa," simplified and ordered the visual elements in the work to create ________.
Compositional Unity
The three kinds of unity are:
Compositional, Conceptual, Gestault
Disparate visual elements can be linked together with a common idea. This is ________ unity.
Conceptual
In The Funeral of St. Bonaventure, the artist used the principle of ________ to create emphasis and focal point.
Contrast
The Russian artist Marc Chagall depicted the mythical character Icarus with bright colors on a white background in order to ________.
Draw attention to icarus
Any of the ________ of art can help focus our interest on specific areas of a work of art.
Elements
The area covered by a pattern is called the ________.
Field
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
This type of scale is common in the relief sculpture of ancient Egypt, where it was used to indicate social importance.
Hierarchial
The story of Vishnu dreaming the universe, as depicted in an Indian relief carving (1.6.9), is derived from the ________ religion.
Hindu
The seventeenth-century huqqa base (1.9.3) was created by an Islamic artist, or artists, in ________.
India
An artist might use a small scale for a portrait of a lover because it implies ________.
Intimacy
The rhythmic movement of the cattle and the plowmen in Plowing in the Nivernais: The Dressing of the Vines suggests struggle and the natural ebb and flow of nature by using ________ rhythm.
Irregular
Variety can ________ a design.
Ivigorate
What does the cross on Velázquez's tunic in Las Meninas signify?
Member of the order of Santiago
The kind of scale used for objects that appear larger than they are in real life is called ________ scale.
Monumental
The size relationships between parts of an object, or its ________, affects how a viewer will interpret it.
Proportions
________ balance is achieved when all elements in a work of art are equidistant from a central point and repeat in a symmetrical way from side to side and top to bottom.
Radical
In his work The School of Athens, this Renaissance artist created figures using the ideal human proportions developed by the ancient Greeks.
Raphael
When Robert Rauschenberg, in his work Monogram, chose to use a variety of non-traditional art materials and techniques instead of those accepted by the art world, he made a conscious effort to ________ the established art world.
Rebel against
The Taj Mahal was commissioned by the grieving ________ as a memorial to his third and beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal.
Shah Jahan
The opposite of emphasis is ________.
Subordination
This symmetrical Chinese motif appears in art as a monster that is made from many other designs.
T'oah T'ieh
Agnes Martin created Starlight so that there was no dominant area in the composition. This decision was partly influenced by her interest in Eastern philosophy, especially ________.
Taoism
Romare Bearden depicted a hectic street scene in his work The Dove. He created a sense of unity and stability in the busy composition with an implied ________ shape.
Triagular
What element describes the imposition of order and harmony on a design?
Unity
The atmosphere of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, created by the lack of people on the street, the absence of street lights, and the somber mood of the customers in the diner, is one of ________.
loneliness
The seventeenth-century pashmina carpet from northern India (1.9.4) uses repeated, stylized flowers as ________ to create a strong, unified design.
motifs
The relationships between the sizes of different parts of a work make up its ________.
proportions
Sumerian votive figures were used as:
religious purposes to please there gods
Memento mori refers to:
symbols used to represent that someday we all die, symbols of death (Reminder of Death)