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Chapter 9

Multiple Choice

Multiple Choice

This activity contains 10 questions.

	The process of designing something requires that the artist or designer organizes all the visual elements that comprise a given work into a   marketable product. visually rationalized work. consensus of organization. totally unified whole. pluralistic statement.

	What did Frank Gehry redesign in 1976 so that it deliberately lacked unity?   the University of Houston Law School the Las Vegas Strip the Giselle poster Philip Johnson's house in Connecticut his own house

	One thing that the architecture of Frank Gehry teaches us is:   traditional materials are still superior. experimentation is rooted in tradition. some rules are made to be broken. even avant-garde architects stick with tradition. painting, as we know it, is dead.

	When dealing with balance in a composition, an artist or designer is actually dealing with:   visual weight. the appropriate framal reference for the viewer. proportion. actual weight. the relationship between form and content.

	In Quarton’s Coronation of the Virgin, the crucifix is very small, yet it is the most significant part of the composition. Why?   All lines of sight are directed toward it. It serves as the light source for the painting. It creates the basis for scientific perspective. The work was created for a cathedral. The entire painting is organized around it.

	The Rose Window at Chartres Cathedral best exemplifies:   asymmetrical balance. muted color. asymmetry. radial balance. None of the answers are correct.

	The dimensions of an image of an object, in relation to the original object, or the things around it is:   the object's dimensionality. the size of the object. the balance. scale. proportion.

	Hokusai’s The Great Wave Off Kanagawa makes a statement about scale because the print takes advantage of the fact that:   the print itself is seven feet in height. everyone knows the size of Mt. Fuji. the boat is deliberately oversized. there is stark reality of black and white prints. the scale diminishes as you step back.

	In Woman with Stiletto, Picasso creates a scene of true horror. How does he do this?   by adding text to the work by placing Marat's head screaming above Cordet's by placing part of a photograph of the scene in with it by altering the proportion of all the body parts by using black, white and gray

	Postmodernism:   is a sense of disjunction. evokes a sense that parts can never form a unified whole. allows many different elements to coexist together. could be defined as a discontinuity between the old and the new. All of the above.

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