Art Appreciation Ch. 1.6

The focal point of Robert Rauschenberg's sculpture Monogram is:

A stuffed goat

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

Beauty and stability

An interior designer can balance curved and straight lines to __________ each other.

Complement

A good example of variety in a work would be:

Different shapes and colors

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

German

An artist creates compositional unity by:

Organizing all of the visual elements of the work

When Tibetan Buddhist monks create a sand mandala, they are creating a composition that has this kind of balance:

Radial

Artists face a communication challenge: to find a ________ within the chaos of nature and to select and organize materials into a harmonious composition.

Structure

A work can still display unity, even if none of the visual elements has anything in common, if:

The elements have conceptual unity

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

The wave crests mimic the snow on Mt. Fuji The shape of Mt. Fuji is repeated throughout the work Textures are repeated throughout the work The placement of the boats in between the waves creates a pattern

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

Unity