Discuss the composition, movement, and technique of Nicola Pisano's baptistery pulpit relief sculpture, Annunciation, Nativity, and Adoration of the Shepherds
What will be an ideal response?
Essay responses should include these points:
The Virgin reclines in the middle of the composition after having given birth to Jesus.
The Annunciation scene is in the upper left corner.
The panel is in low and high relief.
Implied motion is created by the groupings of the figures, but Mary, the largest figure, always attracts the viewer's attention.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which of the following is a characteristic of Jean Rouch's Chronique d'un été (Chronicle of a Summer), made in collaboration with sociologist Edgar Morin?
A. It carries forward the suspenseful drama of the Drew films. B. It makes use of hidden cameras to record the subjects of the film. C. It centers on ordinary people explaining their lives, while Morin's insistent questioning makes Direct Cinema a provocative force. D. It involves Rouch and Morin simply observing or sympathizing with the subjects of the film rather than prodding and provoking.