Select any work in the chapter, except Picasso's Girl Before a Mirror. Identify it by artist, title, and medium. Then identify at least three of the elements of art that the artist has included. Next, indicate three of the principles of design that are evident in the work and describe how the artist has used these elements and principles to convey information through form as well as through
content.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary, but should include any three of these elements—line, shape and mass, light, color, texture and pattern, space, time and motion—and any three of these principles—unity and variety, balance, emphasis, scale and proportion, rhythm—in the discussion of an artwork.
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A. meditating under a tree B. traveling widely by foot C. archiving existing knowledge D. building temples
Classical chamber music is designed ________.
A. to display the virtuosity of the players B. to be conducted by experienced orchestral directors C. for the intimate setting of a small room D. exclusively for performance by paid professional musicians