Art App Unit 2 (Quizzes 4-5)

Hokusai's print of The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa uses compositional unity in which of these ways? (It makes the wave crests like the snow on Mt. Fuji It repeats the shape of Mt. Fuji throughout the work It repeats textures throughout the work It places the boats in proximity to one another)

All of the other answers

This American painter used small abstract motifs to create a huge self-portrait.

Chuck Close

This art movement, of which Hans Arp was a member, valued randomness, absurdity, and nonsense over rational or orderly patterns.

Dada

The principle of rhythm does not apply to photography.

False

Which two terms are not interpretive methods of artistic analysis?

Figurative and Autobiographical

Gestalt unity is a term that is derived from this language:

German

The Greeks sought an ideal of beauty in the principle of proportion. To the Greeks, these proportions embodied the perfection of the _______.

Gods

This proportional system uses a ratio of 1:1.618.

Golden Section

This sixteenth-century Flemish artist designed the work Hunters in the Snow using rhythms and subsidiary rhythms that lead the viewer's eye through the work.

Pieter Bruegel

Which Greek sculptor wrote a treatise (book) describing how to create a statue of a human being with ideal or perfect proportions?

Polykleitos

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

Surrealists

Both biographical and historical analysis are important for understanding the meaning of Velázquez's Las Meninas.

True

The ancient Greeks designed the Parthenon according to the idealized rules of proportion for the human body, creating ________ design.

a harmonious

A pattern with regular intervals creates ________ rhythm.

a repetitive

Picasso's Las Meninas is ________.

abstract

Allan Houser's work Reverie is ________.

abstract and representational

Something done on a monumental scale usually indicates __________ . (epic virtues, heroism, bravery, admiration)

all of the other answers

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 a work of art.

balance

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

Artichoke Halved is a photograph that uses this point of view to capture unique characteristics of a natural object.

close-up

The three kinds of unity are:

compositional, conceptual, gestalt

In The Funeral of St. Bonaventure, the artist used the principle of ________ to create emphasis and focal point.

contrast

A good example of variety in a work would be __________

different shapes and colors

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's representational portrayal of the woman in Grande Odalisque ________ her body.

distorts

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

focal point

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

foreground, background

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

grid

The ancient Greek sculptor who created the bronze known as Poseidon, used this part of the body as a standard unit for proportional measurement in the work.

head

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

hierarchical

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

A focal point is that specific part of an area of emphasis to which the artist draws our eye. He or she can do so by using two types of line.

implied and actual

Variety can ________ a design.

invigorate

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 ________ rhythm.

irregular

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 café, is one of ________.

loneliness

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

monumental

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

monumental

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

motif

The seventeenth-century pashmina carpet from northern India uses repeated stylized flowers as ________ to create a strong, unified design.

motifs

By emphasizing the color field in the center of Tin Lizzie Green, the artist who painted it intended to focus the viewer's attention on the work's ________ space.

negative

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

palm

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

pattern

The relationships between the sizes of different parts of a work make up its ________.

proportions

________ 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

A work that depicts people or objects in a way that makes them recognizable is called ________.

representational

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

shapes

In his figural portraits, Robert Lostutter uses this kind of scale to create an intimate viewing experience.

small scale

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

spiritual

Sometimes an artist will intentionally create a work without a specific meaning, leaving the interpretation to the viewer. In this case, interpretation is _______, meaning that each individual can understand art differently.

subjective

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

subordination

The opposite of emphasis is ________.

subordination

Dorothea Tanning's work Eine Kleine Nachtmusik uses deliberately distorted scale to create an abnormal or ________ effect.

supernatural

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

symmetrical

This feature of the Peruvian double-chambered vessel with mouse is a particularly strong focal point.

the mouse's eyes

There is rhythm in an artwork when it has at least this many points of reference.

two

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

unity

What principle of art did Katsushika Hokusai employ in "The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa" in order to bring harmony to what could otherwise be a very chaotic scene?

unity

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

unity and variety

An artwork can be described as non-objective if its subject matter is ________.

unrecognizable

In Audrey Flack's Marilyn Monroe, the burning candle, the flower, and the hourglass are typical of a kind of symbolism in art that reminds us of death. This kind of symbolism is known as ________.

vanitas

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