Select any work in the chapter, except Picasso's Girl Before a Mirror. Identify it by artist, title, and medium. Then identify at least three of the elements of art that the artist has included. Next, indicate three of the principles of design that are evident in the work and describe how the artist has used these elements and principles to convey information through form as well as through
content.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary, but should include any three of these elements—line, shape and mass, light, color, texture and pattern, space, time and motion—and any three of these principles—unity and variety, balance, emphasis, scale and proportion, rhythm—in the discussion of an artwork.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Giorgione introduced _________, or enigmatic pastoral themes into Venetian painting
A. Mannerism B. poesie C. allegories D. Counter-Reformation themes
According to the notes, marriage is not competition, but ___________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Who is the composer of "The Talking Sheep"?
a) Alfonso el Sabio b) Guillaume de Machaut d) the head musician of Alfonso's court d) the real composer is probably anonymous