Quiz Art 4

Contrast is the juxtaposition of strongly dissimilar elements. Without contrast, visual experience would be monotonous. Donald Judd's Untitled (1990) is a good example of contrast in that it uses curving and straignt lines, organic and geometric shapes, and colors that clash.

False

Henri Matisse's Large Reclining Nude and Cildo Meireles' Cruzeiro do Sul (Southern Cross) are both examples of art that employs distorted relationships between scale and proportion for visual effect.

False

The following works of art use directional forces to imply a sense of motion: Goya's Bullfight: The Agility and Daring of Juanito Apinani Degas' Jockeys Before the Race Matisse's Large Reclining Nude

False

art theories focus attention on the composition of the work and how earlier works may have influenced it.

Formal

Large Reclining Nude is the final result of this artist's long process of planning and rearranging the design of the composition.

Henri Matisse

refers to size relationships between parts of a whole.

Proportion

Damien Hirst's Posterity--The Holy Place is a work of art made from butterflies and household gloss paint on canvas. This piece resembles a stained-glass window with a perfectly symmetrical composition. The stability of symmetry is a useful tool for religious art (such as a stained-glass window), which suggests the divine.

True

Jacob Lawrence used the following principles of design to create his painting Going Home: A balance of unity and variety. Visual themes with lines, shapes, and colors. Repetition of forms.

True

is the appearance or condition of oneness in a work of art.

Unity

The balance in Jockeys Before the Race, by artist Edgar Degas, is

asymmetrical

Many works of art have been subject to _______ over the centuries, from the iconoclasm of the first century, to sixteenth-century nude figures, to recent "controversial" works such as Chris Olfili's Holy Virgin Mary.

censorship

Critics who examine the environmental influences on a work of art, such as the economic system, cultural values, and politics, use _______theories.

contextual

The juxtaposition of strongly dissimilar elements is referred to as

contrast

Which of the following is the result of the process of arranging, selecting, and ordering?

design

The term "art criticism" refers to making _______ of art, both favorable and unfavorable.

discriminating judgments

Any kind of movement or structure of dominant and subordinate elements in sequence in a work of refers to

rhythm

Ogata Korin's Cranes is a good example of the principle of

rhythm and repetition.

Claus Oldenburg's and Coosje van Bruggen's art, as seen in Shuttlecocks, affects us immediately through its

scale

In _______ balance, the two sides of a composition on either side of an imaginary vertical dividing line correspond to one another in size, shape, and placement of form.

symmetrical

To evaluate a work of art properly, we must deal with it in the context of

the society that produced it.