Elements & Principles
This design principle is achieved when there is an equal distribution of visual weight around an implied center or axis in a composition.
What is balance?
Robert Smithson created this earthwork.
What is "The Spiral Jetty"
The Holocaust is recounted in this artwork by Christian Boltanski.
What is "Altar to the Chases High School"
What is light?
Qualities of a surface that are experienced through the sense of touch.
What is texture?
Hue Value and intensity are what we refer to what visual element?
What is color?
This mural made by Pablo Picasso in 1937, falls under multiple themes such as politics and social order, abstraction, and looking inward: the human experience.
What is Guernica?
This piece is the best-known work of the bizzarely inventive Hieronymus Bosh.
What is "The Garden of Earthly Delights"
A series of adjacent points.
What is a line?
This principle can add visual and conceptual interest to a design.
What is variety?
This principle is used to create visual impact and gives a particular part of a design great importance.
What is emphasis?
A Greek word for image breaking used to describe the act of destroying images in the name of spiritual purity.
What is iconoclasm?
This artist completed works in a variety of categories such as painting, graphic design, costume design, and set design.
Who is Robert Rauschenberg
Two dimensional areas with a recognizable boundary.
What are shapes?
To give tangible form to the unknown.
Why is art used in the sacred realm?
To de-emphasize parts of a composition.
What is subordination?
A work that communes beyond the boundaries of our lifetime.
What is Meta Warrick Fuller's "Talking Skull"?
Inspired by a print by Hokusai, Jeff Wall notably omits Mt. Fuji from this composition.
What is a "A Sudden Gust of Wind"?
The area in and around an object.
What is space?
Frank Henderson made his artwork on these after moving to the reservation.
What is Ledger art?
Red-orange, yellow-green, and blue-violet are a few examples of these.
What is tertiary colors?
A radiant vertical space transformed by colored light.
What is Sainte-Chappelle
The Buddhist image in this chapter shows the central figure surrounded by ________.
What are bodhisattvas?
This design principle gives a sense of coherence in an artwork.
What is Unity?
Continued cycle of prosperous society, safe passage to the afterlife for the Pharaoh, wealth for the land its people were provided by these.
What are the Egyptian Pyramids.