Art Inquisitive 1.8 review

This artist created the print "Riverside Bamboo Market, Kyobashi," which uses placement for emphasis and to create focal points.

Ando Hiroshige

Artemisia Gentileschi worked during this stylistic and historical period.

Baroque

An artwork can have only one focal point.

False

Horizontal and vertical lines draw out notice because they appear more visually active than diagonal lines.

False

The Funeral of St. Bonaventure is a painting by the Spanish artist ________.

Francisco de Zurbaran

If an artist painted a garden with one red flower in a field of yellow flowers, this would be an example of using color to create contrast. For the viewer, the single red flower would be ________.

a focal point in the artwork

Artists can use ________ to organize the elements in a work and draw our attention to areas of emphasis and focal points.

all of the above: 1. direction 2. dramatic contrasts 3. placement 4. line

In Dieric Bouts's work The Coronation of the Virgin Mary, the artist focuses the viewer's attention on the Virgin Mary—even though the Holy Trinity is present—by ________.

all of the above: 1. placing the Virgin in the center 2. directing all other figures' eyes toward he Virgin 3. placing a dove above the Virgins' head 4. dressing the Virgin in a different color to all the other figures

In the print (1.8.6) from the series The Life of John Brown by Jacob Lawrence, broad emphasis occurs because the twelve figures ________.

are evenly balanced

Artemisia Gentileschi used directional line brilliantly in her painting Judith Decapitating Holofernes to draw our attention to this point

blood spurting from Holofernes's neck

When an artist wants to highlight the entire surface of his or her work, without regard for any particular area, this is called ________.

broad emphasis

In The Funeral of St. Bonaventure, the artist used the principle of ________ to create emphasis and focal point.

contrast

The Russian artist Marc Chagall depicted the mythical character Icarus with bright colors on a white background in order to ________.

draw attention to Icarus's fall

Any of the ________ of art can help focus our interest on specific areas of a work of art.

elements

Martin Puryear's sculpture C.F.A.O. places emphasis on a large white area of the work that mimics a mask design of the ________ tribe in Gabon, West Africa.

fang

This is the specific part in an area of emphasis to which the viewer's eye is drawn.

focal point

The African American sculptor Martin Puryear was influenced by the time he spent in Africa as a member of the ________.

peace corps

Vija Celmins created Untitled (Ocean)so that there was no dominant area in the composition. This work might encourage meditation because of what quality?

repetition

In his print "Riverside Bamboo Market, Kyobashi, " the artist oriented three ________ in order to emphasize specific points in the work and to enliven the composition.

shapes

In the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarusby Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the artist intended to divert our attention so that we barely notice Icarus plunging to his doom; a fine example of ________.

subordination

The opposite of emphasis is ________.

subordination

If the clothing of the saint was the only light area in The Funeral of St. Bonaventure, the viewer's eye would not be easily drawn to any other areas of the composition.

true

In the Indian painting featuring the Mughal Emperor Babur in his garden (1.8.9),the garden is punctuated by a specific feature that points to the four cardinal directions. What is this feature?

water