Chapter 5
What do trained artists generally do to create a composition?
Combine experience with an understanding of the elements and principles of design
What does symmetry in art often represent?
Order, harmony, and authority
Who used the golden section?
Renaissance architects and artists
How can the principle of rhythm be identified?
Repetition of elements in a composition
How can an asymmetrical composition look balanced?
The visual weight on each side is similar.
Why is the principle of variety used?
To provide interest in the image
Which statement accurately describes balance in a composition?
A composition is balanced when it looks visually balanced.
What are ways to create an asymmetrical composition?
*Contrasting color values on the same size forms. *Smaller elements balanced with a large form. *A simple form balanced with a complex form.
Variety adds what aspects to an image?
*Difference *Interest
Which characteristics are needed to create unity and variety?
*Interest *Diversity *Wholeness
What approaches does Georges de la Tour use to create emphasis in The Magdalen with Smoking Flame?
*Light *Line
What are the principles of design?
*Proportion and scale *Unity and variety *Balance
Which descriptions are examples of rhythm?
*The same shape painted alternating colors across a line. *Two shapes painted the same color in an organized way.
Henry Ossawa Tanner's The Banjo Lesson uses emphasis and subordination for what purpose?
*To place emphasis on the banjo and the boy *To emphasize figures against the background
When designing Villa Savoye, Le Corbusier used what to base the proportions?
Golden section
When does an artist know a composition is balanced?
It looks or feels visually balanced.
Which principle applies when elements create a pattern in a work of art?
Rhythm
If a line is drawn down the center of a composition, and each side corresponds to the other, what does this composition have?
Symmetrical balance
Why would an artist subordinate some parts of a composition?
To draw attention to the areas of emphasis
It looks or feels visually balanced.
Visual weight
What is the relative heaviness or lightness of a form in a composition?
Visual weight
When an artist chooses an area of a composition to highlight or draw attention to, this is called ______.
emphasis
True or false: Using the central axis determines if a piece is asymmetrically balanced.
False
How does the knowledge of the elements and principles of design inform the viewer?
It allows the viewer to appreciate the act of seeing a work of art.
