1.8 Emphasis and Focal Point

Question 1

Emphasis:

Answer 1

the principle of
drawing attention to particular
content in a work

Question 2

Focal point:

Answer 2

the center of
interest or activity in a work 
of art, often drawing the 
viewer’s attention to the most
important element

Question 3

Principles:

Answer 3

the “grammar”
applied to the elements of art—
contrast, balance, unity, variety,
rhythm, emphasis, pattern, scale,
proportion, and focal point

Question 4

Elements:

Answer 4

the basic vocabulary
of art—line, form, shape,
volume, mass, color, texture,
space, time and motion, and
value (lightness/darkness)

Question 5

Subordination:

Answer 5

the opposite
of emphasis; it draws our
attention away from particular
areas of a work

Question 6

Abstract:

Answer 6

art imagery that
departs from recognizable
images from the natural world

Question 7

Color field:

Answer 7

a term used by
a group of twentieth-century
abstract painters to describe
their work with large flat areas 
of color and simple shapes

Question 8

Color:

Answer 8

the optical effect caused
when reflected white light of the
spectrum is divided into a
separate wavelength

Question 9

Positive shape:

Answer 9

a shape defined

by its surrounding empty space

Question 10

Negative space:

Answer 10

an empty space
given shape by its surround, 
for example the right-pointing
arrow between the E and x
in FedEx

Question 11

Implied texture:

Answer 11

a visual

illusion expressing texture

Question 12

Composition:

Answer 12

the overall design

or organization of a work

Question 13

Rhythm:

Answer 13

the regular or ordered

repetition of elements in the work

Question 14

Outline:

Answer 14

the outermost line of
an object or figure, by which it is
defined or bounded

Question 15

Woodcut:

Answer 15

a print created from

an incised piece of wood

Question 16

Actual and Implied lines:

Answer 16

actual lines are solid lines.
Implied lines are impressions 
of lines created from a series of
points that orient our gaze along
a visual path