Art Appreciation Chapter 1.8 quiz

This artist created the print "Riverside Bamboo Market, Kyobashi," which uses placement for emphasis and to create focal points.

Ando Hiroshige

During what stylistic and historical period did Artemisia Gentileschi work?

Baroque

Martin Puryear's sculpture C.F.A.O. places emphasis on a large white area of the work that mimics a mask design of the ________ tribe in Gabon, West Africa.

Fang

What spanish artist painted The Funeral of St. Bonaventure?

Francisco de Zubaran

The African American scupltor Martin Puryear was influenced by the time he spent in Africa as a member of the:

Peace Corps.

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

in one print (1.8.7) from the series The Life of John Brown by Jacob Lawrence, Broad emphasis occurs because its twelve figures:

are evenly balanced

In Milton Glaser's work AIDS: Worldwide Effort Will Stop It, the designer focus the viewer's attention on the intersecition of two hearts, even though it creates a large "W". which answer would not draw attention to that area?

black text placed at the bottom of the poster

Artemisia Gentileschi used directional line in Judith Decapitating Holofernes to draw our attention to which point in her painting?

blood spurting from Holoferne's neck

when an artist chooses to highlight the entire surface of their work, without regard for any particular area, this is called:

broad emphasis

Bride's Toilet, Amrita Sher-Gil used _____ to make sure the bride was the focal point of the scene, with four other figures surrounding her.

central placement

In The Funeral of St. Bonaventure, the painter 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's fall

Any of the ________ of art can help focus our interest on specific areas of a work of art.

elements

an artwork can only have one focal point

false

horizontal and vertical lines draw out notice because they appear more visually active than diagonal lines

false

what is the specific part in an area of emphasis to which the viewers eye is drawn?

focal point

Vija Celmins created Untitled (Ocean) so that there was no dominant area in the composition. What quality of this work might encourage meditation?

repetition

In his print "Riverside Bamboo Market, Kyobashi," the artist oriented three ________ in order to emphasize specific points in the work and to enliven the composition.

shapes

in his painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, Pieter Bruegel the Elder intended to divert our attention so that we barely notice Icarus plunging to his doom. This is a fine example of:

subordination

the opposite of emphasis is:

subordination

If the clothing of the saint was the only light area in The Funeral of St. Bonaventure, the viewer's eye would not be easily drawn to any other areas of the composition.

true

artists don't use ______ to organize the elements in a work and draw our attention to areas of emphasis and focal points.

unity

In the Indian painting featuring the Mughal Emperor Babur in his garden (1.8.10), the garden is punctuated by a specific feature that points to the four cardinal directions. name this feature.

water