Art App DC: Chap 4

Front

Why do artists establish directional forces in a work?

Back

It influences the way we look at a work of art. It is a path for the eye to follow.

Front

Why might an artist distort the scale of an object?

Back

Visual effect.

Front

The sameness of two much unity can be boring, and diversity of uncontrolled difference can be chaotic: In art we call this difference...?

Back

Variety

Front

The organization of visual elements in a work of art is referred to as its __________?

Back

Composition

Front

Define unity as it applies in a work of art.

Back

The appearance or condition of oneness.

Front

Define the term balance and its two types. Which one creates more interest and why?

Back

The achievement of equilibrium, in which acting influences are held in check by opposing forces, symmetrical and asymmetrical.

Front

Is the statement about balance true or false: "A larger form is heavier and more attractive or more attention getting than a small form. Thus two or more small forms can balance one large form."

Back

True

Front

Does a form gather visual weight as it nears the edge of a picture?

Back

Yes

Front

WHat is the difference between scale and proportion?

Back

Scale is the size relation of one thing to another and proportion is the size relationship of parts to a whole.

Front

How does Michelangelo use proportional manipulation in his Pieta?

Back

He made the heads of the two figures the same size but greatly enlarged Mary's body in relation to that of Christ.