Living With Art (Chapter 5)
Variety adds what aspects to an image?
- Difference - Interest
In what ways does Edouard Manet use balance in his piece A Bar at the Folies-Bergère?
- To make the viewer an active participant - To direct the viewer with a visual guide
True or false: Using the central axis determines if a piece is asymmetrically balanced.
False
What does symmetry in art often represent?
Order, harmony, and authority
True or false: Haruko Kojin's Reflectwo creates symmetrical balance through the use of floating fabric flower petals.
True
Unity based on the elements of art, such as shape, line and color, is called ______ unity.
visual
Which characteristics are needed to create unity and variety?
- Wholeness - Diversity - Interest
An artwork that is unified through ideas is called ______ unity.
conceptual
What approaches does Georges de la Tour use to create emphasis in The Magdalen with Smoking Flame?
- Light - Line
In what ways did the Benin in Africa use hierarchal scale?
- The larger figure is the king and placed higher. - The smaller figures at the king's attendants. - The size of the king's head is proportionally larger than the servants.
In Francisco de Goya's painting Executions of the Third of May, 1808, how is emphasis on the main figure created?
Implied light and directional line
Which principle of design is related primarily to size?
Scale and proportion
If a line is drawn down the center of a composition, and each side corresponds to the other, what does this composition have?
Symmetrical balance
How can an asymmetrical composition look balanced?
The visual weight on each side is similar.