ARTS 1301 Q3

22. At least how many points of reference are needed in an artwork in order for there to be rhythm?

2

25. In the etching The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, Francisco Goya uses regularity of line and shape to create _______ rhythm, with a benign effect, in the lower half of the work.

A Stable

15. In the print (1.8.6) from the series, The Life of John Brown by Jacob Lawrence, broad emphasis occurs because the twelve figures _________.

Are Evenly Balanced

14. When an artist wants to highlight the entire surface of his or her work, without regard for any particular area, this is called _____.

Broad Emphasis

21. This american painter used small abstract motifs to create a huge self portrait.

Chuck Close

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

Direction

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

Elements

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

Focal Point

10. This proportional system uses a ratio of 1:1.618.

Golden Section

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

Hierarchical

4. An artist might use a small scale for a portrait of a lover because it implies _____.

Intimacy

24. 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

Irregular

1. The kind of scale used for objects that appear larger than they are in real life is called _______ scale.

Monumental

3. The Swedish-born artist Claes Oldenburg uses this kind of scale in his sculptures to express admiration for the little things in everday life.

Monumental

20. A design repeated as a unit in a pattern is called a ________.

Motif

8. In ancient Egypt, this part of the human body was used as a standard of measurement. Six of these equaled a cubit.

Palm

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

Pattern

2. The size relationships between parts of an object, or its ______, affects how a viewer will interpret it.

Proportions

9. In his work The School of Athens, this Renaissance artist created figures used the ideal human proportions developed by the ancient Greeks.

Raphael

23. A pattern with regular intervals creates ______ rhythm.

Repetitive

6. The Flemish artist Jan van Eyck used hierarchical scale to communicate ______ importance in his painting Madonna in a Church.

Spiritual

12. The opposite of emphasis is _____.

Subordination

16. In the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the artist intended to divert our attention so that we barely notice Icarus plunging to his doom; a fine example of _________.

Subordination

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

Surrealists

19. Which of the following can create a pattern?

The warp and weft of woven cloth Fish scales Dried, cracked mud Stacks of cans