These things describe the behavior or relationships between the Elements of Art.
What are the Principles of Design?
100
This is the feeling of equilibrium in a work of art.
What is balance?
100
This two-word phrase is another way to say context.
What is "historical background"?
100
Mesopotamian art deals mostly with the power of these two groups.
What are the rulers and the gods?
100
This type of sculpture is made of small pieces of stone, shell, or glass.
What is mosaic?
200
This word relates to the beat of music and can often give a similar sensation of repetition.
What is rhythm?
200
These are the three types of Balance.
What are symmetrical, assymetrical, and radial?
200
This word refers to the person who paid for a work of art to be made.
What is the patron?
200
This is the name of the specific culture that produced the Standard of Ur.
Who are the Sumerians?
200
This artistic devices designates the largest figure in the image as the most important.
What is hieratic scale?
300
This term refers to a sense of variety or difference among elements that adds visual interest.
What is contrast?
300
This word refers to the arrangement of images within a work of art.
What is composition?
300
It is difficult to discover the context for prehistoric artworks because we do not have this.
What are written records?
300
These angled structures were built to elevate temples and intimidate political enemies.
What are ziggurats?
300
The images on the Standard of Ur are divided into these, stacked horizontal levels that tell the parts of a story.
What are registers?
400
This is is the creation of a focal point, or center of visual interest, within a composition.
What is emphasis?
400
This term refers to the suggestion of visual motion in a work of art.
What is movement?
400
When you ask "where" a work of art was made, you are asking for its this.
What is location?
400
Ziggurats were made of this material because stone was not as readily available.
What is mud brick?
400
The Standard of Ur's War and Peace sides demonstrate these two purposes of ancient Sumerian kings.
What are the warrior and the provider?
500
This is a sense of harmony among the elements in a composition that make it feel complete.
What is unity?
500
This term refers to the sense of “correct” measurements in a figure, object, or building, or the relative size of objects within a composition to each other and to the composition as a whole.
What is proportion?
500
When you ask who made the work of art, you are asking about this person.
Who is the artist?
500
This writing system invented by the Sumerians used wedge-shaped marks pressed into clay tablets with a stylus.
What is cuneiform?
500
This blue stone was precious to the Sumerians who used it in sculpture to show their wealth.