Exam 5: Principles of Design

Georgia O'Keeffe's painting Deer's Skull with Pedernal is a prime example of:

The architect Le Corbusier designed the Modulor, a tool he used for calculating human proportions, based upon:

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

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

Another term for asymmetrical balance is:

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

The ancient Roman architect Vitruvius associated the perfected male form with the perfect geometry of:

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

Edouard Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère invites us to consider points of view in its subject and composition. Interpretations of this painting include ________ approaches.

Consider Klimt's Death and Life and Goya's Executions of the Third of May, 1808, both included in this chapter of the text. Discuss the ways in which each artist visually established focal points or areas of interest.

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.

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

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.

Which work of art uses hierarchical scale?

Henry Ossawa Tanner's The Banjo Lesson creates emphasis through:

Discuss the effects--both visual and emotional--of the symmetry of the Tibetan Thirteen-Deity Jnanadakini Mandala, or of another religious work that employs formal symmetry.

Symmetrical balance, as used by Georgia O'Keeffe, expresses:

In a two-dimensional work with asymmetrical balance, the appearance of balance is achieved by:

The ancient Egyptians developed a standard set of proportions used to create images of the "correct" or "perfect" human, as have many cultures both ancient and modern. This set of proportions was created using:

Annette Messager's Mes Voeux and Joseph Cornell's The Hotel Eden both demonstrate the use of: