SCALE AND PROPORTION
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What is the definition of proportion as it relates to size in art?
View answer and explanationWhat is the most accurate description of the term 'scale' in the context of art?
View answer and explanationWhat is 'hieratic scaling'?
View answer and explanationIn Fra Filippo Lippi's painting 'Saint Lawrence Enthroned with Saints and Donors', why is Saint Lawrence depicted as unnaturally large compared to the other figures?
View answer and explanationWhat is the primary effect of the 'oppressively large' sphere in Richard Roth's installation 'Untitled'?
View answer and explanationWhat is meant by 'human scale reference' when discussing the scale of art?
View answer and explanationThe Chinese medallion from the Ming Dynasty is used as an example of what kind of scale?
View answer and explanationAccording to the text, what is the 'opposite approach' to the intimate scale of the Chinese medallion, as illustrated by Claes Oldenburg's 'Typewriter Eraser'?
View answer and explanationWhat is the approximate length of the Nazca earth drawing of a spider, which can only be seen properly from the air?
View answer and explanationHow does Howard Hodgkin's painting 'Menswear' provide a sense of scale to the viewer, despite having no pictorial elements?
View answer and explanationWhat key element transforms our understanding of scale in Andreas Gursky's photographs of a racetrack when comparing 'Bahrain II' to 'Bahrain I'?
View answer and explanationWhat is the primary difference in the use of scale between Ghirlandaio's 'Last Supper' and Nolde's 'The Last Supper'?
View answer and explanationWhat feeling is created by the use of scale in Ghirlandaio's 'Last Supper'?
View answer and explanationIn the context of 'Contrast of Scale', how does the wash drawing 'Insects IV' by Mark Fennessey attract our attention?
View answer and explanationWhat is the primary artistic device used in Gilbert Li's 'Social Insecurity' to evoke a feeling of anxiety?
View answer and explanationWhat is the defining characteristic of Surrealism's use of scale and proportion?
View answer and explanationWhat is the central paradox presented by the scale of objects in René Magritte's painting 'Personal Values'?
View answer and explanationIn Charles Ray's sculpture 'Family Romance', what specific manipulation of scale radically demonstrates its impact?
View answer and explanationWhat effect does Fernando Botero achieve by distorting the proportions in his version of 'Mona Lisa'?
View answer and explanationWhat is a 'canon' of proportion?
View answer and explanationWhich rectangle is most often cited as 'perfect' and has influenced art and design throughout the centuries?
View answer and explanationThe proportions of the golden rectangle, known as the golden mean, can be expressed by what ratio?
View answer and explanationWhat is the Fibonacci sequence, which is related to the ratio of the golden mean?
View answer and explanationWhat is a 'root rectangle'?
View answer and explanationHow is a root 2 rectangle created from a square?
View answer and explanationWhat unique proportional quality does a root 2 rectangle possess?
View answer and explanationThe painting 'The Duel after the Masquerade' by Jean-Léon Gérôme is used as an example of a composition based on which rectangle?
View answer and explanationA root five rectangle is described as a derivative of the golden rectangle. What is its composition?
View answer and explanationWhich artwork is used as a prime example of a composition that exploits the properties of a root five rectangle to depict a three-part narrative?
View answer and explanationIn Masaccio's 'The Tribute Money', what event is depicted in the center square section of the root five composition?
View answer and explanationWhat does the text suggest about the altered proportions of the Modified 1932 Ford ('Deuce') Street Rod?
View answer and explanationWhat is the primary power of using an 'unusual or unexpected scale' in a work of art?
View answer and explanationWhat is the key factor that determines whether an unusual scale, either large or small, is justified in an artwork?
View answer and explanationThe 'Limbourg Brothers. Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes' is given as an example of an artwork whose small scale is appropriate for what purpose?
View answer and explanationWhat term is used when an element in a composition is described as 'out of proportion'?
View answer and explanationWhat is the primary effect of John Moore's 'Blue Stairway', which combines large and small scale together?
View answer and explanationWhat term did René Magritte use to describe the effect of artworks that provoke a reconsideration of how we know things through confusing scale?
View answer and explanationHow is the city skyline in the photograph of the New York–New York Hotel in Las Vegas revealed to be a fantasy?
View answer and explanationThe ancient Greeks sought ideal proportions and determined the 'perfect' body to be how many heads tall?
View answer and explanationThe irrational number represented by the Greek letter F (Phi), which is related to the golden mean, is approximately what value?
View answer and explanationThe text states that Picasso's abstract painting 'Harlequin' relies in part on what type of rectangle to evoke the figure?
View answer and explanationThe use of an oppressively large sphere in an installation, as seen in Richard Roth's 'Untitled', relies on what principle to convey its scale?
View answer and explanationWhat does the text imply is the main effect of a Pop artist like Claes Oldenburg using a 'leap of scale'?
View answer and explanationWhat is the primary emotional effect created by the internal proportions in Emil Nolde's painting 'The Last Supper'?
View answer and explanationThe satirical effect in Pavel Pepperstein's 'Landscapes of Future' is achieved by treating what kind of elements as symbols of monumental importance?
View answer and explanationThe term for a specific type of artistic distortion that reproduces the world not as it is, but as a cultural worldview says it should be, is called what?
View answer and explanationHow is the painting 'View of the Tiber near Perugia' by George Inness used to illustrate the golden rectangle?
View answer and explanationIf a square has a side length of 1 unit, what will be the length of the diagonal, which is used to create the long side of a root 2 rectangle?
View answer and explanationWhat is the key difference between the scale manipulation in Pop Art (e.g., Oldenburg) and Surrealism (e.g., Magritte)?
View answer and explanationWhy are the inherent geometric lines of a rectangle (diagonals, midlines) important in composition?
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