Explain how artists use the elements of shape, color, texture, and value to create visual balance. Use at least two works of art from other chapters as examples of formal and informal balance
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary, but students should note how elements fall along both sides of the vertical axis and how the balance created makes them feel.
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What leading painter of the French Revolution shifted his allegiance to Napoleon and became the "First Painter" of imperial France?
a. J. M. W. Turner b. Antonio Canova c. Eugène Delacroix d. Jacques-Louis David
The creator of the Pimpernel Pattern Wallpaper (fig. 12.1) is __________
A. none of the below B. an anonymous artist working for the ruler of Urbino, Federico da Montefeltro, during the Renaissance C. William Morris D. Edgar Brandt E. Jens Quistgaard
It is remarkable that a competition was held in 1401 to design the doors to the Florence Baptistery, given that scarcely more than a half century earlier, the city-state had witnessed
a. as much as four-fifths of its population succumb to the Black Death. b. the military destruction of as much as four-fifths of the cathedral’s dome. c. as much as fourth-fifths of the Ghibelline population die at Guelph hands. d. the military destruction of as much as four-fifths of the baptistery.
According to South African politicians, constitutional apartheid was
inspired by Jim Crow laws and legalized segregation in America
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.