Art Appreciation CH 1.6

Katsushika Hokusai's print "The Great Wave Off Shore at Kanagawa" uses compositional unity in which of these ways?

Each answer shown is correct

Gestalt unity is a term that is derived from which language?

German

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

True

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

balance

The symmetrical design of the building that we know as the Taj Mahal carries associations of

beauty and stability

The three kinds of unity are

compositional, conceptual, gestalt

An artist creates compositional unity by

organizing all the visual elements of the work

The design of the Taj Mahal and gardens uses both ________ and ________ symmetry.

radial and bilateral

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

In his work The Flagellation, Piero della Francesca communicates a mood of detachment and contemplation by using this principle of design.

unity