Chapter 5 Flashcards
variety
difference, complete variety is total disorder (each person making a mark on a blank wall)
unity
oneness, complete unity is total blandness (blank wall)
asymmetrical balance
sides dont match
Variety adds what aspects to an image?
Interest
Difference
What does symmetry in art often represent?
Order, harmony, and authority
What are ways to create an asymmetrical composition?
Smaller elements balanced with a large form.
Contrasting color values on the same size forms.
A simple form balanced with a complex form.
Which characteristics are needed to create unity and variety?
Diversity
Wholeness
Interest
Enrique Chagoya’s Uprising of the Spirit uses conceptual unity to critique what areas?
Colonialism
Artist’s heritage
Cultural influences
What is used to make a symmetrical composition if it does not possess absolute symmetry?
visual weight
Why is the principle of variety used?
To provide interest in the image
What does symmetry in art often represent?
Order, harmony, and authority
The Egyptian figures in the Great Temple of Ramses II at Abu Simbel complex play with what concept?
scale
What challenges did Ansel Adams face when creating his pieces?
Finding locations that captured scale and rhythm
Leonardo used Vitruvius’s ideas to study human
proportion
Ansel Adams had what goal in mind with his photographs?
Encourage conservation of Yosemite and other sites
