Art 3 test

Which of the following are acceptable resources for studying art?

A museum website

Rectangles based on the Golden Section can be nested inside each other to create an elegant ________.

spiral

This proportional system uses a ratio of 1:1.618.

Golden Section

In The School of Athens, Raphael focused our attention on two Greek philosophers positioned in the center of the work. They are ________ and ________.

Plato . . . Aristotle

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

Raphael

Agnes Martin created Starlight so that there was no dominant area in the composition. This decision was partly influenced by her interest in Eastern philosophy, especially ________.

Taoism

Which of the following is not a primary source for studying a work of art?

a blog about a painting

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen collaborated to create Mistos, a larger-than-life sculpture of this everyday item.

a book of matches

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

Thomas Struth photographs ________.

all of the other answers

In The Life of John Brown #9 by Jacob Lawrence, broad emphasis occurs because the twelve figures ________.

are evenly balanced

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

blood spurting from Holofernes's neck

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

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

When an artist uses scale to indicate the relative importance of elements in a composition, he or she is employing this kind of scale

hierarchical scale

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

intimacy

The atmosphere of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, created by the lack of people on the street, the absence of street lights, and the somber mood of the customers in the diner, is one of ________.

loneliness

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

monumental

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

palm

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

subordination