Consider Pollock's Number 1, 1949. Identify the style of this work. Then discuss the artist's incorporation of at least three elements and principles of art in the work.

What will be an ideal response?


Responses will vary depending on the selection of elements and principles. Pollock was the model Abstract Expressionist who employed a "drip technique" by casting paint from a brush with controlled gestures, or dripping paint from stick. This work, and Pollock's in general, displays an emphasis on rhythm, nonrepresentation, color, form, and line.

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A. Qur'an B. Hadith C. Arabic language D. madrasa

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Allan Kaprow created "assemblages of events performed or perceived in more than one time and place." He called these

a) happenings. b) multiplicitous situations. c) temporal phenomena. d) installations.

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Chiaroscuro was first used by fifteenth century ____ painters to give the illusion of rounded forms on a flat surface

a. French b. Spanish c. Germans d. Italian

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