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The elements of art form the basic ________ of art.

A) media
B) symbols
C) vocabulary
D) techniques
E) methods

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In his work Woodstock Road,Woodstock,New York,1924 George Bellows used both regular and irregular line.What might the advantages be for an artist who combines both of these types of line in their work?

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If vertical lines communicate strength,horizontals calm,and diagonals action,then a vacation resort might want to choose a logo consisting of ________ lines in order to show peaceful repose.

The Dutch design team Sauerkids used ________ lines of dots and dashes in its work to create exciting visual rhythms.

The dark printed words on the page of a book are easily read because they are printed on a light ground.This is an example of the principle of ________.

The sphere that designer Saul Bass created for the AT&T logo is not defined by a continuous boundary.This type of shape,which can be suggested by dots or lines that do not connect,is termed ________ shape.

A line that is a continuous mark is ________.

In her painting Music-Pink and Blue II,Georgia O'Keeffe emphasized the blue ________ space in order to attract the viewer's attention into a deep interior.

The principles of design are a kind of ________ that artists apply to the elements of art.

The line that defines the edge of a shape is called the ________.

A shape on a flat picture surface that is defined by surrounding empty space is known as ________ shape.

In a 1941 drawing the British artist Barbara Hepworth used line to plan a ________.

In his drawing of the Church of Saint Spirito,Dosio used line to accentuate the patterned surface of the ceiling and differentiate it from the ________.

One definition of this element is "a mark that connects two points."

Compare and contrast the visual differences between the modern photograph of the Church of Saint Spirito (1.1.2b)with Dosio's drawing (1.1.2a).What did the artist change?

Pick the three words that would best describe a regular line.

Miriam Schapiro's collage Baby Blocks combines two different kinds of shape.________ is the term used to describe a shape that suggests the natural world,while the term geometric suggests mathematical regularity.

In a two-dimensional work,when the figure becomes the background and the background becomes the figure,we perceive ________.

The scribbled appearance of Jean Dubuffet's Suite avec 7 Personnages characterizes it as a drawing that exhibits ________.

In his Obey campaign poster Shepard Fairey used a striking contrast between positive and ________ shapes to attract the attention of the public.