Chapter 5

Artist

Frida Kahlo (Not in the textbook. Check this article:( http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/arth200/women/kahlo.html (Links to an external site.) 

Piet Mondrian

 

Topics and Terms

Principles of Design

Composition

Unity and Variety

Visual weight

Balance (Balance through Shape, through Position, through Absence, through Color and Value, through Eye-direction, Symmetrical Balance, Relieved Symmetry, Asymmetrical Balance, Radial Balance)

Points of View

Di sotto in sù

Emphasis and Subordination

Focal Point

Scale and Proportion

Hierarchical Scale

Golden section / Golden rectangle

Rhythm (random rhythm, regular rhythm, alternating rhythm) 
 

Art and Architecture

Black Face and Arm Unit, Ben Jones

Versailles Palace and Gardens

Gustav Klimt, Death and Life

The Two Fridas. Frida Kahlo

Jack in the Pulpit No. IV. Georgia O'Keeffe

Bar at the Folies-Bergere. Edouard Manet

The Banjo Lesson. Henry Ossawa Tanner

Turner, The Burning of the Houses of Parliament

Tawaraya Sotatsu, The Zen Priest Choka

Goya, Executions of the Third of May

 Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Plantoir

Maggritte. Delusions of Grandeur II

A Royal Altar to the Hand (from Benin)

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