Week 4 Quiz Review 1. In her painting Still Life with Lobster, Anna Vallayer-Coster establishes emphasis through the manipulation of light and color. 2. When dealing with balance in a composition, an artist or designer is actually dealing with True. 3. In Frida Kahlo's The Two Fridas, to what purpose does the artist use symmetry? to explore feelings about her husband's rejection of her 4. When each side of a composition is exactly the same, it shows absolute symmetry. 5. In the kente cloths of the Asante and Ewe societies of Ghana, pattern is associated with Correct social prestige and wealth. 6. The Taj Mahal was built by Shah Jahan True. 7. Jan Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance is a perfect example of an asymmetrically balanced composition. 8. Where is the focal point in the Baroque painting Joseph the Carpenter by Georges de La Tour? In the child's (Jesus's) face 9. What idea was made famous by the ancient Greeks as a model of architectural proportion? The Canon 10. Repetition often implies monotony, yet it also creates a sense of rhythm True 11. Frank Gehry has been called a postmodern architect, primarily because he purposely creates a sense of discontinuity by employing variety over unity. 12. In Enguerrand Quarton's Coronation of the Virgin, the artist has organized the design of the composition to emphasize the most important part of the composition, which is the crucifix 13. When an artist deliberately avoids emphasis, we say that the work is afocal. 14. Rudy Burckhardt's photos teach us that Jackson Pollock longed to be involved in the process of painting. 15. Some works of art are created precisely to give us the illusion or sensation of movement. This style of art is called Op art. 16. In what way can a large-scale work be considered a temporal art form? The spectator moves through time and space to view it. 17. Alexander Calder's "mobiles," like Untitled, move when air currents move through them, making them kinetic. 18. Because Gianlorenzo Bernini's David tells a story —of David slaying Goliath—it is said to have what kind of sequence? narrative 19. Claude Monet's Water Lilies, Morning: Willows and Bridget Riley's Drift No. 2 are similar in that both allude to the movements of water 20. A friend of Claude Monet described his great paintings of Water Lilies, Morning: Willows in the Musée de l'Orangerie as demonstrating Brownian motion 21. Unlike a Renaissance painting, time-based media like Teresa Hubbard's and Alexander Birchler's Detached Building can utilize the element of sound 22. Which is the most obvious difference between Bernini's David and Michelangelo's David? Bernini's David is caught in the midst of the action. 23. In Manuel Neri's sculpture Mujer Pegada Series No. 2, the smooth and rough areas of bronze provide examples of actual texture 24. The dimensions of an object, in relation to some constant, such as the human figure, are known as its scale. 25. Proportion is defined as the relationship between the parts to each other and the whole in a composition.