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Hokusai’s The Great Wave makes a statement about scale, in part because? |
everyone in Japan knows the scale of Mount Fuji |
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arte 8 |
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Chartres Cathedral’s rose window best illustrates? |
radial balance. |
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In Enguerrand Quarton’s Coronation of the Virgin, the artist has organized the design of the composition to emphasize the most important part of the composition, which is the? |
crucifix. |
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The Taj Mahal is a perfect example of ? |
symmetry |
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Where is the focal point in the Baroque painting, Joseph the Carpenter by Georges de La Tour? |
In the child’s (Jesus’s) face |
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Which of these pieces best illustrates the use of "variety" over "unity"? |
Louise Lawler’s Pollock and Tureen |
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Where does that author say that the focal point in Larry Poons’s Orange Crush is? |
there is no focal point |
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The Taj Mahal was built by Shah Jahan ? |
as a mausoleum for his favorite wife |
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Jan Vermeer’s Woman Holding a Balance is a perfect example of ____________. |
an asymmetrically balanced composition |
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When an artist deliberately avoids emphasis, we say that the work is? |
afocal. |
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Leonardo da Vinci’s The Vitruvian Man embodies all of these dualistic relationships except? |
the temporary and the eternal |
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In her painting, Still Life with Lobster, Anna Vallayer-Coster establishes emphasis through? |
the manipulation of light and color |
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What was made famous by the ancient Greeks as a model of architectural proportion? |
canon |
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When dealing with balance in a composition, an artist or designer is actually dealing with? |
visual weight |
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What is a term that describes an artist’s attempt to draw our eyes to one area of a composition? |
emphasis |
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Repetition often implies monotony, yet it also creates a sense of? |
rhythm. |
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When each side of a composition is exactly the same, it shows? |
absolute symmetry |
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The dimensions of an object, in relation to some constant, such as the human figure, are known as its? |
scale |
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Proportion is defined as |
the relationship between the parts to each other and the whole in a composition |
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Frank Gehry has been called a postmodern architect, primarily because? |
he purposely creates a sense of discontinuity by employing variety over unity. |
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