Author Question: Paul Klee's Landscape with Yellow Birds and Kaiho Yusho's Fish Nets Drying in the Sun share a strong ... (Read 121 times)

captainjonesify

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Paul Klee's Landscape with Yellow Birds and Kaiho Yusho's Fish Nets Drying in the Sun share a strong use of:
 
  A. radial balance.
  B. a canon.
  C. a dominant focal point.
  D. rhythm.
  E. a directional line of sight.

Question 2

The architect Le Corbusier designed the Modulor, a tool he used for calculating human proportions, based upon:
 
  A. pictorial space.
  B. hierarchical scale.
  C. the golden section.
  D. visual weight.
  E. informal balance.



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Answer to Question 1

D
Both compositions feature the use of several rhythms, such as Yusho's long lines of the nets and short, quick reed leaves and Klee's tapered silvery forms that sway, and the yellow birds that are alert and circling.

Answer to Question 2

C
The Modulor is based on two overlapping golden sections. The first extends from the feet to the top of the head; the second extends from the navel to the tip of an upraised hand.



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