Explain how artists use the elements of shape, color, texture, and value to create visual balance. Use at least two works of art from other chapters as examples of formal and informal balance

What will be an ideal response?

Answers will vary, but students should note how elements fall along both sides of the vertical axis and how the balance created makes them feel.

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The mosaic of putti harvesting grapes and making wine in the mosaic from the ambulatory vault of the church of Santa Constanza is an example of _________________.

a. syncretism of Greco-Roman and Christian religious motifs. b. typology. c. the atrium. d. a clerestory.

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Missa Fortuna desperata is an example of which type of mass?

a) imitation mass b) cantus firmus mass c) prolation mass d) hexachord mass

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