Art Appreciation Chapter 1.6 - Visual Diversity

What element describes the imposition of order and harmony on a design?

An interior design that uses only straight lines might lack the visual interest of a more varied composition

Romare Bearden depicted a hectic street scene in his work The Dove. He created a sense of unity and stability in the busy composition with an implied ____________________ shape.

Joseph Cornell created boxes that contain compositions of ____________________ objects.

This is a kind of visual diversity that can bring many different ideas, media, or elements together in one composition.

The German word that refers to something in which the whole seems greater that the sum of its parts is _______________________.

____________________ balance is achieved when both sides of a composition look exactly the same.

____________________ balance is achieved when two halves of a composition are not mirror images of each other.

The Taj Mahal was commissioned by the grieving ____________________ as a memorial to his third and beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal.

____________________ balance is achieved when all elements in a work of art are equidistant from a central point and repeat in a symmetrical way from side to side and top to bottom.