ART 160 - 1.5 and 1.6

This artist, who created the work Cataract 3, used the natural movement of the human eye to create illusions of motion.

Bridget Riley

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

Hindu

This work by the twelfth-century academic painter Ma Yuan is an excellent example of asymmetrical balance with minimal visual elements.

Walking on a Mountain Path in Spring

In a series of three photographs that reference a lack of Chinese government concern for the past, the artist Ai Weiwei captured the destruction of what valuable object?

a 2,000-year-old urn

Atsuko Tanaka—who was part of the Gutai group, a collective of Japanese experimental artists—created a piece of wearable art with many colored lights. She made this Electric Dress inspired by what kind of commercial sign?

a blinking pharmaceutical sign

The interior designed by I. Michael Winegrad creates ________ and interesting composition by using a balance of curved and straight lines.

a harmonious

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

actual motion

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

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

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

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

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

repeating marks

In his film Run Lola Run, Tom Tykwer extends the ________ of the storyline beyond the everyday passage of time by "rebooting" Lola's journey multiple times.

scope

Baltimore album quilts, which use variety to unify their composition, are named after these collections.

scrapbooks

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

stroboscopic motion

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

symmetrical

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

t'ao t'ieh

When painters in the workshop of the fifteenth-century artist known as the Master of Osservanza illustrated The Meeting of St. Anthony and St. Paul, they solved the problem of how to ________ in a single painting by merging a series of episodes into one picture.

tell a story

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

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

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

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

The three kinds of unity are:

compositional, conceptual, gestalt

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

conceptual

Duration, tempo, intensity, scope, setting, and chronology are: a. basic attributes of time b. attributes of film c. terms that describe time d. central tenets of time-based art e. all of the other answers

e. all of the other answers

The Italian Futurist artist Giacomo Balla implied motion by repetition and inference in his work ________ of a Dog on a Leash.

Dynamism

Artists started depicting time in art only in the twentieth century, and no other artwork that implied movement was made before 1900.

False

This inventor co-created the film Fred Ott's Sneeze, which was one of the first American movies.

Thomas Edison

An interior design that uses only straight lines might lack the visual interest of a more varied composition.

True

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

True

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

animation

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

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

asymmetrical

In her work Astroculture (Shelf Life), bioartist Suzanne Anker experiments with growing plants in artificial light for use in ________.

outer space

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

passage of time

This medium involves the human body and usually includes the artist.

performance art

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

performance art

This spinning disc (spindle viewer) with images on it gives a sense of motion to a viewer when he or she looks through small slits in a second disc at the changing pictures.

phenakistoscope

________ 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