Deck 9: Focal Point and Emphasis

Question 1

Artemisia Gentileschi worked during this stylistic and historical period.

A) Impressionism
B) Renaissance
C) Pop art Emphasis and Focal Point in Action
D) Surrealism
E) Baroque

Answer 1

E

Question 2

Ando Hiroshige oriented three ________ in his print "Riverside Bamboo Market, Kyo¯bashi," in order to emphasize specific points in the work and to enliven the composition.

A) shapes
B) figures
C) bridges Conclusion
D) lines
E) boats

Answer 2

A

Question 3

In the Indian painting featuring the Mughal Emperor Babur in his garden (1.146), the garden is punctuated by a specific feature that points to the four cardinal directions. What is this feature?

A) sand
B) fire
C) water
Contrast
D) rocks
E) an olive tree

Answer 3

C

Question 4

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

A) direction
B) dramatic contrasts
C) placement
D) line
E) all of the other answers

Question 5

An artwork can have only one focal point.

Question 6

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

A) elements
B) tones
C) styles Emphasis and Subordination
D) themes
E) periods

Question 7

This artist created the print "Riverside Bamboo Market, Kyóbashi," which uses placement for emphasis and to create focal points.

A) Francisco de Zurbarán
B) Mark Tobey
C) Ando Hiroshige
D) Jules Olitski
E) Artemisia Gentileschi

Question 8

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

A) Judith's face
B) blood spurting from Holofernes's neck
C) the bed
D) the maidservant
E) a hand

Question 9

By emphasizing the color field in the center of Tin Lizzie Green, the artist who painted it intended to focus the viewer's attention on the work's ________ space.

A) harmonious
B) perspective
C) foreground
D) negative
E) empty

Question 10

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

A) contrast
B) scale
C) balance
D) placement
E) variety

Question 11

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

A) subordination
B) emphasis
C) focal point
D) tone
E) composition

Question 12

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

A) Pieter Bruegel the Elder
B) Jules Olitski
C) Artemisia Gentileschi
D) Francisco de Zurbarán
E) Mark Tobey

Question 13

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

A) subordination
B) focal point
C) middle
D) top
E) composition

Question 14

The undecorated areas of the Peruvian double-chambered vessel with mouse (1.141) are ________ compared to other areas that are patterned or modeled in three dimensions.

A) organic
B) emphasized
C) subordinated
D) exciting
E) positive