Art Exam Stuff 2

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

False

Horizontal and vertical lines draw out notice because they appear more visually active than diagonal lines.

False

In traditional African art of the Yoruba tribe, human imagery follows the ideal proportions identified by the ancient Egyptians in palm and hand measurements.

False

Photographers cannot be responsible for principles of scale or proportion in their photographs.

False

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

False

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

False

Martin Puryear's sculpture C.F.A.O. places emphasis on a large white area of the work that mimics a mask design of the ________ tribe in Gabon, West Africa.

Fang

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

Focal Point

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

Gestalt

This proportional system uses a ratio of 1:1.618.

Golden Section

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

Grid

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

Harmonious

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

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

Spiritual

The kind of motion that is created by showing a series of static images in quick succession is called ________.

Stroboscopic Motion

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

The opposite of emphasis is ________.

Subordination

This American novelist noted that the "aim of every artist is to arrest motion."

William Faulkner

This kind of motion is occurring when we see movement in real life.

Actual Motion

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

All of the other answers (Line, Contrast, Placement)

Disney's Finding Nemo is an example of a series of computer-generated images played in rapid succession. This medium is called ________.

Animation

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

Disparate visual elements can be linked together with a common idea. This is ________ unity.

Conceptual

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

Contrast

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

Elements

When an artist employs visual clues to suggest movement in a work of art that is static and motionless, this is known as ________.

Implied Motion

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

Intimacy

Variety can ________ a design.

Invigorate

This type of sculpture can move and change its visual form.

Kinetic

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

Mandala

Alexander Calder invented the ________, a type of suspended, balanced sculpture that uses air currents to power its movement.

Mobile

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

Bernini's sculpture of Apollo and Daphne is based on a mythological story in which a god pursues a nymph. The artist used diagonal lines and flowing drapery to convey the ________ of the chase.

Movement

This art movement of the 1960s relies on perceptual anomalies of the human eye to create dynamic effects.

Op art

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

Palm

The African American sculptor Martin Puryear was influenced by the time he spent in Africa as a member of the ________.

Peace Corps

This type of art can only exist in one place and time in history

Performance Art

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

Proportions

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

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

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

Shapes

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

Spiral

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

Surrealists

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

If the clothing of the saint was the only light area in The Funeral of St. Bonaventure, the viewer's eye would not be easily drawn to any other areas of the composition.

True

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

True

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.

True

Joseph Cornell created boxes that contain compositions of found objects.

True

Performance art involves the human body and usually includes the artist.

True

Performance artists in the Cirque du Soleil rely on bodily movements to communicate ideas without speech.

True

Ron Lambert's sculptural work Sublimate (Cloud Cover) replicates the natural process of the water cycle to illustrate the passage of time

True

The Italian Futurist artist Giacomo Balla illustrated the rapid movement of a dog running on a leash by painting a series of repeating marks in order to give the impression that we are seeing motion as it happens.

True

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.

True

When an artist creates a work that deceives our eyes into believing there is motion as time passes, this is called the illusion of motion.

True

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

In the Indian painting featuring the Mughal Emperor Babur in his garden (1.8.9), the garden is punctuated by a specific feature that points to the four cardinal directions. What is this feature?

Water