Chapter 5

Artists

Georgia Okeeffe

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

Piet Mondrian

Terms

Composition

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)

Types of view points (from above, from below, eye-level)

Mandala

Emphasis/Focal Point/Subordination

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

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