unit 1.7 art history

claes oddenburg and coosje van bruggen collaborated to creater mistos (match cover), a larger than life sculpture of this everyday item

a book of matches

the ancient greeks designed the parthenon acording to the idealized rules of proportion for the human body, creating what design

a harmonious

in 2-deminsional art, this is the area in which an artist creates their work

format

this proportional system uses a ratio of 1:1.618

golden section

the ancient greek sculptor who created the bronze known as poseidon (or zeus) used this part of the body as a standard unit for proportional measurement in the work

head

the compostion of this photographers work fading away appears to conform to a proportional ratio called the golden section

henry peach robinson

this type of scale is common in the relief sculpture of ancient egypt, where it was used to indicate social importance

hierarchical

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

an artist might use a small scale for a portrait of a lover because it implies

intimacy

the kind of scale used for objects that appear larger than they are in real life is called what scale

monumental

the swedish born artist claes oldenburg uses this kind of scale in his sculpture to express admiration for the little things in everyday life

monumental

in ancient egypt, this part of human body was used as a standard of measurement. Six of these equaled a cubit

palm

in the school of athens, ralphael focused our attention on 2 greek philosophers positioned in the center of the work. they are who and who

plato and aristotle

the relationships between the sizes of different parts of a work make up its what

proportions

the size relationships between parts of an object or its what affects how a viewer will interprut it

proportions

in his work the school of athens, this renaissiance artist created figures using the ideal human proportions developed by the ancient greeks

ralphael

this aspecct of culture is integral to both ancient greek and yoruba figural art, despite the differences in how the resulting artworks look

religion

in his figural portraits robert lostutter uses this kind of scale to create an intimate viewing experience

small scale

recctangles based on the golden section can be nested inside each other to create an elegant what

spiral

the flemish artist Jan van Eyck uses hierarchical scale to communicate what importance in his painting madonna in a church

spiritual

Dorthea Tannings work Eine Kleine Nachtmusik uses deliberately distorted scale to create an abnormal or what effect

supernatural

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

surrealists

scale can change the way a work is percieved by a viewer. By choosing to make his painting very large, the french artist Jean-Francois millet elevated the importance of a group of old women working in a field. What is the name of this work?

the gleaners