Exam 8: Emphasis and Focal Point

In the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus,by Pieter Bruegel,the artist intended to divert our attention so that we barely notice Icarus plunging to his doom; a fine example of ________.

The opposite of emphasis is ________.

In the Indian painting featuring the Mughal Emperor Babur in his garden (1.8.8),the garden is punctuated by a specific feature that points to the four cardinal directions.What is this feature?

An artwork can have only one focal point.

The Funeral of St.Bonaventure is a painting by the Spanish artist ________.

Artemisia Gentileschi worked during this stylistic and historical period.

Artists can use ________ to organize the elements in a work and draw our attention to areas of emphasis and focal points.

Any of the ________ of art can help focus our interest on specific areas of a work of art.

Identify three things that the artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder could have done differently in his painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus if he had wanted to make the figure of Icarus the focal point of the work.

When an artist wants to highlight the entire surface of his or her work,without regard for any particular area,this is called ________.

If the clothing of the saint was the only light area in The Funeral of St.Bonaventure,the viewer's eye would not be easily drawn to any other areas of the composition.

Agnes Martin created Starlight so that there was no dominant area in the composition.This decision was partly influenced by her interest in Eastern philosophy,especially ________.

In The Funeral of St.Bonaventure,the artist used the principle of ________ to create emphasis and focal point.

In his print "Riverside Bamboo Market,Kyobashi," the artist oriented three ________ in order to emphasize specific points in the work and to enliven the composition.

This is the specific part in an area of emphasis to which the viewer's eye is drawn.

Agnes Martin's interest in Eastern philosophy influenced her work.Discuss how the work Starlight communicates ideas about the "importance of harmony in the Universe."

The African-American painter Jacob Lawrence was inspired by John Brown,a Civil War-era abolitionist who believed that slavery could be eradicated through armed insurrection.With this in mind,what does Lawrence's composition The Legend of John Brown #9 communicate to viewers?

Artemisia Gentileschi used directional line brilliantly in her painting Judith Decapitating Holofernes to draw our attention to this point

Martin Puryear's sculpture C.F.A.O.places emphasis on a large white area of the work that mimics a mask design of the ________ tribe in Gabon,West Africa.

In The Legend of John Brown #9 by Jacob Lawrence,broad emphasis occurs because the twelve figures ________.