Art 1010 - Introduction to Art » Fall 2022 » Quiz 3

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Question #1
The opposite of emphasis is ________.
A.   tone
B.   focal point
C.   proportion
D.   subordination
E.   color
Question #2
This is the specific part in an area of emphasis to which the viewer’s eye is drawn.
A.   middle
B.   top
C.   composition
D.   focal point
E.   subordination
Question #3
Artemisia Gentileschi used directional line brilliantly in her painting Judith Decapitating Holofernes to draw our attention to this point
A.   Judith’s face
B.   the maidservant
C.   blood spurting from Holofernes’s neck
D.   a hand
E.   the bed
Question #4
In the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the artist intended to divert our attention so that we barely notice Icarus plunging to his doom; a fine example of ________.
A.   emphasis
B.   focal point
C.   tone
D.   composition
E.   subordination
Question #5
Artists can use ________ to organize the elements in a work and draw our attention to areas of emphasis and focal points.
A.   placement
B.   dramatic contrasts
C.   direction
D.   line
E.   all of the other answers
Question #6
In The Funeral of St. Bonaventure, the artist used the principle of ________ to create emphasis and focal point.
A.   placement
B.   balance
C.   contrast
D.   scale
E.   variety
Question #7
The size relationships between parts of an object, or its ________, affects how a viewer will interpret it.
A.   mass
B.   colors
C.   facade
D.   proportions
E.   values
Question #8
The Swedish-born artist Claes Oldenburg uses this kind of scale in his sculptures to express admiration for the little things in everyday life.
A.   human
B.   monumental
C.   small
D.   hierarchical
E.   proportional
Question #9
When an artist uses scale to indicate the relative importance of elements in a composition, he or she is employing this kind of scale.
A.   proportional scale
B.   monumental scale
C.   small scale
D.   human scale
E.   hierarchical scale
Question #10
Dorothea Tanning’s work Eine Kleine Nachtmusik uses deliberately distorted scale to create an abnormal or ________ effect.
A.   intimate
B.   thoughtful
C.   heroic
D.   peaceful
E.   supernatural

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