Living With Art (Chapter 5)

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Variety adds what aspects to an image?

- Difference - Interest

In what ways does Edouard Manet use balance in his piece A Bar at the Folies-Bergère?

- To make the viewer an active participant - To direct the viewer with a visual guide

True or false: Using the central axis determines if a piece is asymmetrically balanced.

False

What does symmetry in art often represent?

Order, harmony, and authority

True or false: Haruko Kojin's Reflectwo creates symmetrical balance through the use of floating fabric flower petals.

True

Unity based on the elements of art, such as shape, line and color, is called ______ unity.

visual

Which characteristics are needed to create unity and variety?

- Wholeness - Diversity - Interest

An artwork that is unified through ideas is called ______ unity.

conceptual

What approaches does Georges de la Tour use to create emphasis in The Magdalen with Smoking Flame?

- Light - Line

In what ways did the Benin in Africa use hierarchal scale?

- The larger figure is the king and placed higher. - The smaller figures at the king's attendants. - The size of the king's head is proportionally larger than the servants.

In Francisco de Goya's painting Executions of the Third of May, 1808, how is emphasis on the main figure created?

Implied light and directional line

Which principle of design is related primarily to size?

Scale and proportion

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

How can an asymmetrical composition look balanced?

The visual weight on each side is similar.


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