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Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper is based on what specific type of perspective? |
one-point linear perspective |
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chap 5 art |
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Gustave Caillebotte’s Place de l’Europe on a Rainy Day is based on what specific type of perspective? |
two-point linear perspective |
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In Harmony in Red (The Red Room), Henri Matisse deliberately intended to violate the laws of perspective. Why? |
His interests were in things other than pure verisimilitude |
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Paul Cézanne’s Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair illustrates that the artist was more interested in? |
Design |
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What is the metaphorical significance of the carved sculpture, Feast Making Spoon, from the Ivory Coast? |
It represents the power of the imagination to transform an everyday object into a symbolically charged container of social good. |
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Where is the negative space in the Rubin vase? |
in both, depending on how you look at it |
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Where is the vanishing point in Duccio’s Perspective Analysis of Annunciation of the Death of the Virgin, from the Maestá Altarpiece? |
at several points in the composition |
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In Steve DiBenedetto’s Deliverance, the artist uses what to create a sense of space? |
overlapping images |
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What is the most obvious visual element in Matisse’s Harmony in Red (The Red Room)? |
its lack of special depth |
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Where is the vanishing point in The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci? |
at Jesus’ head |
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As is common in Japanese art, the Kumano mandala creates the illusion of space by utilizing? |
oblique projection |
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In The Dead Christ, Andrea Mantegna utilizes what technique in order to adjust the distortion created by the point of view? |
foreshortening |
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In the Rubin vase illustration, the black shape can be seen alternately as a foreground object resembling a vase, or as a background space between two white profiled faces. What is this relationship called? |
figure-ground reversal |
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Although created for different purposes, Barbara Hepworth’s Two Figures and the African feast-making spoon share a similar trait. What is it? |
They are both positive forms that contain negative space |
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A picture drawn in perspective that employs a single point of vision is called? |
monocular vision. |
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Why is the stereoscope such an effective means of describing "real" space? |
It mimics binocular vision |
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On axonometric projection, all lines indicating height, width, and depth remain? |
parallel. |
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According to Sayre, our notion of space has changed abruptly and even become "fluid" since the beginning of the twentieth century due to? |
Einstein’s theories. |
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There is a contradiction in the appearance of Martin Puryear’s Self. What is it? |
It is much lighter than it appears, because it is hollow. |
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As in Suney, Olafur Eliasson is known for mainly using what "materials" in his work? |
light |
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When and where was linear perspective first codified (studied, organized, and written down)? |
during the Renaissance in Italy |
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Paul Strand’s Abstraction, Porch Shadows reflects a 20th century effort to challenge the viewer’ perspective with? |
odd or distorted perspective. |
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In the 15th century in Italy there was a profound redefinition of space with the codification and usage of linear perspective. Some see the same thing happening today with? |
the increased usage and manipulation of cyberspace and virtual realities. |
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