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chapter 9
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| balance | is the principle of art concerned with equalizing visual forces or elements in a work of art |
| central axis | is a dividing line that works like the point of balance in the balance scale |
| formal balance | when equal or very similar elements are placed on opposite sides of a central axis |
| symmetry | is a special type of formal balance in which two halves of a balanced composition are identical mirror images of each other |
| radial balance | when the forces of elements of a design come out from a central point. |
| natural balance | gives the viewer the same comfortable feeling as formal balance |
| informal balance | or asymmetry involves a balance of unlike objects. |
| approximate symmetry | calm stability |
| diego rivera | the son o two teachers was born in 1886 in the small town of guanajuato, mexico. he use art to show his serious concern for the mexican working people. |