Exam 9: Focal Point and Emphasis

Artemisia Gentileschi used directional line brilliantly in her painting Judith Decapitating Holofernes to draw our attention to this point

The undecorated areas of the Peruvian double-chambered vessel with mouse (1.141) are ________ compared to other areas that are patterned or modeled in three dimensions.

Artists can use ________ to organize the elements in a work and draw our attention to areas of emphasis and focal points.

By emphasizing the color field in the center of Tin Lizzie Green, the artist who painted it intended to focus the viewer's attention on the work's ________ space.

Artemisia Gentileschi worked during this stylistic and historical period.

An artwork can have only one focal point.

This is the specific part in an area of emphasis to which the viewer's eye is drawn.

In The Funeral of St. Bonaventure, the artist used the principle of ________ to create emphasis and focal point.

Any of the ________ of art can help focus our interest on specific areas of a work of art.

The Funeral of St. Bonaventure is a painting by the Spanish artist ________.

Ando Hiroshige oriented three ________ in his print "Riverside Bamboo Market, Kyo¯bashi," in order to emphasize specific points in the work and to enliven the composition.

This artist created the print "Riverside Bamboo Market, Kyóbashi," which uses placement for emphasis and to create focal points.

In the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus the artist intended to divert our attention so that we barely notice Icarus plunging to his doom; a fine example of ________.

In the Indian painting featuring the Mughal Emperor Babur in his garden (1.146), the garden is punctuated by a specific feature that points to the four cardinal directions. What is this feature?