Review for Chapter 9 on Balance and Mandala Information

1. Review for Chapter 9 on Balance and Mandala Information

2. Balance What art principle is concerned with equalizing visual forces, or elements in a work of art.

3. Central Axis A dividing line that works like the point of balance in the balance scale.

4. Warm Colors Which carries more visual weight?

5. Informal Balance A balance of unlikely objects.

6. Approximate Symmetry Two halves are “almost” identical.

7. Symmetrical A special type of formal balance in which two halves of a balanced composition are identical, mirror images.

8. Art Elements What are the visual forces, or weights,

9. Conical Native American teepees are ___________ and build around a pole that represents the “axis mundi” or world axis.

10. Medicine Wheels Indians have created ___________________.

11. Yin-Yang The Asian Taoist ____________ symbol represents opposition as well as interdependence.

12. Geodesic Dome Buckminster Fuller expanded on the dome design of his famous ___________________ structure, a treat structural representation of a mandala.

13. Aztec Calendar Was both a time keeping device and a religious expression of the ancient Aztecs.

14. Non-objective The type of design that is full of colors shapes, lines, values, forms, textures. No recognizable subject or objects.

15. Pattern Repetitive Design

16. Intersect To cross each other.

17. Arc Any part of a curve.

18. Concentric Circles within each other.

19. Geometry Branch of math dealing with measurements and relationships to points, lines, planes, and solids.

20. Radial Rays brancing out from a circle.

21. Contrast Dark to light.

22. Angle The shape or space made by two straight lines or plane surfaces.

23. Protractor Device used to draw angles.

24. Parallel Two lines that never cross when stretched to infinity.

25. Compass Instrument with two pivoted legs to draw a circle.

26. Bisect To cut into two; divide into two equal parts.