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MoA F SG
Marvel of Art FINAL Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ______ ______ refers to even distribution of weight in a composition. | visual weight |
| In sculpture, ______ ______ is the physical weight of materials in pounds. | actual weight |
| All art deals with _______, or the apparent "heaviness" or "lightness" of the forms in the composition. A: balance | balance |
| Leonardo's Vitruvian Man: perfectly balanced and ___________. Each limb appears twice—once in a square (earthly, finite) and once in a circle (heavenly, infinite). | symmetrical |
| When each side is exactly the same, it is called ________ ________. | absolute symmetry |
| When there are minor discrepancies, but the overall effect is symmetrical, it is called _________ ________ | bilateral symmetry |
| The ___ ________ one of the dominant images of symmetry in Western art. | the crucifix |
| Childe Hassam uses this type of symmetry in Boston Common at Twilight, where both sides lack symmetry but hold equal visual weight. A composition like this is said to be ______________ ________. | asymmetrically balanced |
| ______ _______ is achieved when everything radiates outward from a central point. | Radial balance |
| Artists employ emphasis in order to draw the viewer’s attention to 1 area of the work. We refer to this area as the ______ _________ __ _____ ___ _____ of the composition. The lobster in Anna Vallayer-Coster’s Still Life with Lobster is a example of this. | strong contrasts of light and color |
| A work in which no single point of the composition demands the attention of the viewer and where the eye can find no place to rest is called ______. Pollock’s work is an example of this. | afocal |
| In his masterpiece Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor) Diego Velázquez creates _________ ______ __ ________ in that the viewer can’t determine the focal point. | competing points of emphasis |
| __-__ ___ uses scale to represent the importance of how many “little people” are responsible for the success of public leaders. | Do-Ho-Suh |
| _____ is the word we use to describe the dimensions of an art object in relation to the original object that it depicts or in relation to the objects around it. | Scale |
| Kara Walker’s Subtlety, honoring exploited artisans and marking the Domino Sugar Plant’s demolition, is gigantic and made of _____. The work comments on the exploitation of _____ _____ in sugar production. | sugar; slave labor |
| In Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa, the wave is visually larger than the distant Mt. Fuji, but our sense of _____ causes us to diminish its importance. | scale |
| __________ refers to the relationship between the parts of an object and the whole. | Proportion |
| Jacob Lawrence’s Barber Shop, establishes a ______ through the repetition of both shapes and colors. | rhythm |
| Auguste Rodin, The Three Shades is composed through a ______ __________ of figures. | formal repetition |
| _____________ is a movement in art that embraces the sense that the parts can never form a unified whole. | Postmodernism |
| Elizabeth Murray’s, Just in Time is about: | the endless play of unity and variety |
| Because it is so direct, recording the path of the artist’s hand directly on paper, artists also find drawing to be _ _________ _____ __ ____-__________ | a readymade means of self-expression. |
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