ART 2140 themes in visual culture 1.6

If an artist painted a street scene with one large building on the left-hand side, and two smaller buildings on the right-hand side, this would be an example of ________ balance.

Asymmetrical

In his work Six Persimmons, the thirteenth-century Chinese monk Muqi used different visual weights on each side of the composition. This is known as ________ balance.

Asymmetrical

_____________ balance is achieved when two halves of a composition are not mirror images of each other.

Asymmetrical

Creating visual weight and counterweight is part of an artist's use of the element of __________ in creating work of art.

Balance

The three kinds of unity are:

Compositional Conceptual Gestalt

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

Disperate visual elements can be linked together with a common idea. This is ____________ unity.

Conceptual

In his painting The Flagellation, Italian artist Piero della Francesca created unity by concentrating groups of figures in two different areas, ___________ and ____________.

Foreground ... Background

Joseph Cornell created boxes that contain compositions of ________ objects.

Found

The German word that refers to something in which the whole seems greater than the sum of its parts is __________.

Gestalt

Romare Bearden's work The Dove uses an underlying _________ reflecting the city streets to create a sense of order.

Grid

The story of Vishnu dreaming the universe, as depicted in an Indian relief carving (1.6.9), is derived from the _________ religion.

Hindu

Tibetan Buddhist monks create colored sand images with a radial design. This representation of the universe is called a ___________.

Mandala

_________ 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.

Radial

The design of the Taj Mahal and gardens uses both _______ and _________ symmetry

Radial and Bilateral

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

_______________ balance is achieved when both sides of a composition look exactly the same.

Symmetrical

An artist creates an artwork made up of may different shapes, all in varying shades of blue. This artwork uses the following principles of art:

Time and Motion

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.

Triangular

What element describes the imposition of order and harmony on a design?

Unity

Compositional unity strikes an interesting balance between the monotony of too much similarity, and the chaos of too much ________ in a work of art.

Variety

This is a kind of visual diversity that can bring many different ideas, media, or elements together in one composition.

Variety

Variety can ________ a design.

invigorate

This symmetrical Chinese motif appears in art as a monster that is made from many other designs.

t'ao t'ieh