QUIZ 8 EMPHASIS
An artwork can have only one focal point.
False
Horizontal and vertical lines draw our notice because they appear more visually active than diagonal lines.
False
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
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
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
Artists can use ________ to organize the elements in a work and draw our attention to areas of emphasis and focal points.
direction line placement dramatic contrasts
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
This is the specific part in an area of emphasis to which the viewer's eye is drawn.
focal point
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 ________.
placing a dove above the Virgin's head dressing the Virgin in a different color to all the other figures placing the Virgin in the center directing all other figures' eyes toward the Virgin
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 Icarus by 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
