chapter 7

Question 1

__ refers to even distribution of weight in a composition

Answer 1

visual weight

Question 2

in sculpture, __ is the physical weight of materials in pounds

Answer 2

actual weight

Question 3

all art deals with __, or the apparent “heaviness” or “lightness” of the forms in the composition

Answer 3

balance

Question 4

Leonardo’s study of human proportion; the vitruvius man is perfectly balanced and __. each of the figure’s limbs appear twice, once to fit in the square, a symbol of the finite, earthly world, and once to fit in the circle, a symbol of the heavenly world

Answer 4

symmetrical

Question 5

when each side is exactly the same, it is called __ ___

Answer 5

absolute symmetry

Question 6

when there are minor discrepancies, but the overall effect is symmetrical, it is called ___ __

Answer 6

bilateral symmetry

Question 7

when each side is exactly the same, it is called __ __

Answer 7

absolute symmetry

Question 8

the __ is one of the dominant images of symmetry in western art

Answer 8

the crucifix

Question 9

balance can be achieved even when the two sides of the composition lack symmetry, if they seem to possess the same visual weight. a composition is said to be __ __

Answer 9

asymmetrically balanced

Question 10

__ is achieved when everything radiates outward from a central point

Answer 10

radial balance

Question 11

Artists employ emphasis in order to draw the viewer’s attention to one area of the work. We refer to this area as the_________________ of the composition. The lobster in Anna Vallayer-Coster’s Still Life with Lobster is an example of this.

Answer 11

strong contrasts of light and color

Question 12

A work in which no single point of the composition demands the attention of the viewer and
where the eye can find no place to rest is called _________________. Pollock’s work is an
example of this.

Answer 12

afocal

Question 13

In his masterpiece Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor) Diego Velázquez creates ___________ in that the viewer can’t determine the focal point

Answer 13

competing points of emphasis

Question 14

_________________ uses scale to represent the importance of how many “little people” are responsible for the success of public leaders.

Answer 14

Do-Hu Suh

Question 15

__________is the word we use to describe the dimensions of an art object in relation to the original object that it depicts or in relation to the objects around it

Answer 15

scale

Question 16

Kara Walker’s, Subtlety, Subtitled The Marvelous Sugar Baby, an Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World on the Occasion of the demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant, is gigantic in scale, and is made entirely of ________ , this work makes a statement about the exploitation of _____________ to produce it sugar for sugar factories

Answer 16

sugar; slave labor

Question 17

in Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa, the wave is visually larger than the distant Mt. Fuji, but
our sense of ________ causes us to diminish its importance

Answer 17

scale

Question 18

____________________ refers to the relationship between the parts of an object and the
whole

Answer 18

proportion

Question 19

Jacob Lawrence’s Barber Shop, establishes a __________________through the repetition of
both shapes and colors

Answer 19

rhythm

Question 20

Auguste Rodin, The Three Shades and Laylah Ali’s Greenhead Series are both composed through a __________of figures.

Answer 20

formal repetition

Question 21

__ is a movement in art that embraces the sense that the parts can never form a unified whole

Answer 21

postmodernism

Question 22

elizabeth Murray’s just in time is about

Answer 22

the endless play of unity and variety