Exam 7: Scale and Proportion

In The School of Athens,Raphael focused our attention on two Greek philosophers positioned in the center of the work.They are ________ and ________.

This type of scale is common in the relief sculpture of ancient Egypt,where it was used to indicate social importance.

This proportional system uses a ratio of 1:1.618.

Compare ancient Greek ideal human proportions with the art of the Yoruba.In your opinion,which culture uses proportions that are most descriptive of the human figure? Why?

In ancient Egypt,this part of the human body was used as a standard of measurement.Six of these equaled a cubit.

In two-dimensional art,this is the area in which an artist creates their work.

The kind of scale used for objects that appear larger than they are in real life is called ________ scale.

The size relationships between parts of an object,or its ________,affects how a viewer will interpret it.

Rectangles based on the Golden Section can be nested inside each other to create an elegant ________.

An artist might use a small scale for a portrait of a lover because it implies ________.

In his work The School of Athens,this Renaissance artist created figures using the ideal human proportions developed by the ancient Greeks.

It does not matter if a sculptor is creating a human statue on a monumental scale,or a figure much smaller than lifesize: if the sculptor applies the ratio of the Golden Section,the sculpture will have naturalistic proportions.

An artist would probably use distorted scale if he or she wanted to create a lifelike scene that the viewer could relate to.

When an artist uses scale to indicate the relative importance of elements in a composition,he or she is employing this kind of scale.

In traditional African art of the Yoruba tribe,human imagery follows the ideal proportions identified by the ancient Egyptians in palm and hand measurements.

Photographers cannot be responsible for principles of scale or proportion in their photographs.

The ancient Greek sculptor who created the bronze known as Poseidon (or Zeus)used this part of the body as a standard unit for proportional measurement in the work.

The composition of this photographer's work Fading Away appears to conform to a proportional ratio called the Golden Section.

Discuss ways in which photography can mislead viewers about scale or proportion.Find an example where the photographer has made an object seem either bigger or smaller than it would be in real life.What might the photographer's reasons have been for doing this?

This group of artists sometimes used distorted scale to create dreamlike images that subvert our conscious experiences.