Exam 5: Principles of Design

Which of the following are not among the principles of design?

Scale is defined as:

Another term for asymmetrical balance is:

Sculptor Claes Oldenburg tends to challenge viewers' idea of

Rather than depend solely upon visual unity, an artist will sometimes create ________ unity by unifying the ideas in a work of art.

Artists will often add ________ to provide interest and enliven the unity of a work of art.

Choose three works that utilize rhythm and compare the emotional and intellectual responses they evoke in you.

The use of scale to indicate relative importance is known as ________ scale.

Select any work in the chapter, except Picasso's Girl Before a Mirror. Identify it by artist, title, and medium. Then identify at least three of the elements of art that the artist has included. Next, indicate three of the principles of design that are evident in the work and describe how the artist has used these elements and principles to convey information through form as well as through content.

In art, the design principle of balance functions to:

By positioning the dark, dense image of death next to the billowing, light form representing life, Gustav Klimt's painting Death and Life demonstrates artistic use of:

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen created shock value through use of:

Discuss at least three ways that artists create compositional unity in a work, referring to specific works of art to support your statements.

The Parthenon and the Modulor were both designed according to a ratio known as:

Consider Matisse's Memory of Oceania and Klee's Landscape with Yellow Birds, both included in this chapter of the text. Select three of the principles of design and discuss how each artist has used these principles in his work.

Which work of art uses hierarchical scale?

Drawing attention to an area by contrasting dark and light is one way of demonstrating

The Thirteen-Diety Jnanadakini Mandala uses ________ to suggest that there is a hidden order to the universe.

Paul Klee's Landscape with Yellow Birds and Kaiho Yusho's Fish Nets Drying in the Sun share a strong use of:

The organization of visual elements in two-dimensional art is called: