Art

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No society that we know of has lived without some form of art. The impulse to make and respond to art appears to be as deeply ingrained as to inabbility

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learn language

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The famous Neolithic structure in England, made of megaliths that once formed several concentric circles, is called

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Stonehenge

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Radiocarbon testing indicates that the earliest images made by humans date back to

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the Paleolithic Period.

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According to the author, the impulse to create art comes from basic human interests in

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all of these: creating order and structure; exploring aesthetic possibilities; and constructing images and forms that carry meaning

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“All art is basically Paleolithic or Neolithic: either the urge to smear soot and grease on cave walls or pile stone on stone” was said by

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Anthony Caro

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The most famous of Maya Lin’s works is

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the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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The nature of perception suggests that the most important key to looking at art is

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to become aware of the process of looking itself

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Vanitas paintings meditate on

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the fleeting nature of earthly life and happiness.

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Wheel of Fortune was created by

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Audrey Flack

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Which are methods used by prehistoric painters?

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all of these: animal fats and pigments mixed together, the use of reed brushes, and powdered pigments blown through hollow reeds

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During the ________ the term “art” was used roughly in the same sense as “craft.”

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Middle Ages

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Fisherman’s Cottage on the Cliffs at Varengeville was painted by

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Claude Monet

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What term describes work done by nonprofessionals?

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All these answers are correct.

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To discover why the sculptor of the Amida Nyorai depicted the subject with elongated earlobes, specific hand gestures, and a bun atop his head requires the use of (story in a work of art)

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iconography

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The term style is used to categorize a work of art by its

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visual characteristics.

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Our modern ideas about art carry with them ideas about

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the artist and the audience

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During the 18th century, beauty and art were discussed together because both

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were felt to provide pleasure.

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________ is the name for a standard subject in Christian art, that of Mary, the mother of Jesus, holding her son after he was taken down from the cross.

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Pietà

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If a work of art is faithful to our visual experience, its style is

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naturalistic

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When discussing the size, shape, material, color, and composition of a work of art, we are discussing its

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form

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________ involves identifying, describing, and interpreting subject matter in art.

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iconography

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The term for extreme optical fidelity is

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trompe l’oeil.

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During the Renaissance in Western Europe, ________ came to be regarded as the more elevated of the arts

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painting, sculpture, and architecture

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After much study of the Arnolfini Double Portrait, experts agree that

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Experts still debate the work’s iconography

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Context is a factor of ties that bind a work of art to the

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All these answers are correct

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Ann Hamilton’s Mantle is an example of

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installation.

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According to the author,

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a work of art may fall into more than one theme.

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In the painting White Clouds over Xiao and Xiang by Wang Jian,

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the painter’s inscription situates him in a centuries-old tradition of painterly and poetic meditations.

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Which of the following was designed as a place of worship or meditation?

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all of these: Sainte-Chapelle, the Great Mosque at Córdoba, and the Buddhas in Bamiyan, Afghanistan

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Iconoclasm means the ________ of images based on religious beliefs

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destruction

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Cimabue’s Madonna Enthroned and Rathnasambhava, the Transcendent Buddha of the South are similar in all these ways EXCEPT

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they share the same iconography

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Which of the following is an example of a theme in art

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Art of Nature

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Whereas the Christian image by Cimabue depicts the central figure surrounded by angels, the Buddhist image in this chapter shows the central figure surrounded by

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bodhisattvas

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The Egyptians imagined the ________ as resembling earthly life in every detail.

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afterlife

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The pyramids at Giza in Egypt were built as

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tombs

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Which of the three great pyramids at Giza is the largest?

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Khufu

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The range of ________’s work makes him difficult to categorize. In addition to paintings, prints, and combination pieces, he has done extensive set and costume design for Merce Cunningham and others, as well as graphic design for magazines and books.

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Robert Rauschenberg

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One of the most delightfully eccentric figures in the history of art is the Japanese painter and woodcut designer known as

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Hokusai.

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The implied lines of the people's attention direct our eye to the:

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the ship in the extreme distance

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The _______________lines convey a sense of motion and the __________________lines imply strength and effort.

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diagonal; vertical

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Seurat uses the optical effects of _________________in this slide:

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pointillism

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This Aztec shield serves as an example:

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figure-ground relationship

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Raphael's The Madonna of the Meadows is composed using the implied shape of a

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triangle

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Which artist uses light itself as the main material and whose work increases our awareness of light as a presence in the world?

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James Turrell

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Charles White's Untitled illustrates the technique of

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hatching

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Which color harmony is represented in Piet Mondrian's Trafalgar Square?

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triadic

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Raoul Dufy's oil painting is an example of _____________texture

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visual

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A necessary feature of pattern is

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repetition

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The 18th-century Indian painting of Maharana Amar Singh and others watching musicians and acrobats utilizes the two most basic visual cues for implying depth on a flat surface.

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position and overlapping

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The vanishing point in da Vinci's The Last Supper is

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all of the answers are correct

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In Albrecht Durer's woodcut The Draftsman Drawing a Reclining Nude, the draftsman is using a device to help him achieve the effect of

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foreshortening

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In this work the artist uses ____________________perspective

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atmospheric and linear

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The Siege of Belgrade is an example of _____________perspective which is often used in ____________________based art.

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isometric; East Asian

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Alexander Calder's mobiles involve actual motion. Art that incorporates motion as a part of its artistic expression or art that moves is called

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kinetic

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This video installation consists of digitally animated trees. The trees are programmed to cycle through the

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seasons

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The Thirteen-Deity Juanadakini Madala uses ______________to suggest that there is a hidden order to the universe.

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symmetry

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Henry Ossawa Tanner's The Banjo Lesson creates emphasis through

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contrasting values of dark skin against a pale background

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Those of most importance were often portrayed larger than those whose status was lesser. This sculpture is an example of

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hierarchical scale

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Leonardo da Vinci was fascinated by the ideas of _________________, a Roman architect, who associated the perfected male form with the perfect geometry of the square and circle.

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Vitruvius

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The architect Le Corbusier designed the Modular, a tool he used for calculating human proportions, based upon

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the golden section

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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

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rhythm

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Pablo Picasso's Girl Before a Mirror is based in symmetrical balance, but the two sides are not identical mirror images. This composition allows him to explore the traditional theme o

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vanitas

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Annette Messager’s Mes Voeux and Joseph Cornell's The Hotel Edenboth demonstrate the use of

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conceptual unity

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Georgia O'Keeffe's painting Deer's Skull with Pedernal is a prime exampleof

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symmetrical balance

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The Plantoir is a work by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen which is remarkable fo

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scale

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The ancient Egyptians developed a standard set of proportions used to create images of the "correct" or "perfect" human, as have many cultures both ancient and modern. This set of proportions was created using

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a square grid

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Which of the following elements can best be described as "the path of a moving point"?

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line

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During the 20th century which of the following became a recognized element of art?

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motion

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Lines are used in art to indicate

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all of the answers are correct

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In art, shapes that suggest forms found in nature are called _____________shapes.

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organic

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Space can be

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2D or 3D, implied or actual, positive or negative

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A black-and-white photograph of a scene eliminates the hues and intensities of the scene's colors, but captures the _________________of the colors

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values

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In drawing, the outer boundaries of two-dimensional forms are defined by _______________, while the outer boundaries perceived among three-dimensional forms are defined by__________________.

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outlines; contours

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In painting and drawing, artists often use the technique of ___________to describe the way shadows and light define the mass of forms.

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chiaroscuro

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In the additive process of color mixing, red light, green light, and blue light combine to produce _________________light.

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white

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Mixing two primary colors produces a ______________color

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secondary

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Another term for asymmetrical balance is

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informal balance

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In a two-dimensional work with asymmetrical balance, the appearance of balance is achieved by

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distributing visual weight accordingly

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Rather than depend solely upon visual unity, and artist will sometimes create ___________ unity by unifying the ideas in a work of art.

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conceptual

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In a two-dimensional work of art that is balanced symmetrically, the implied center of gravity is

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along the vertical axis down the center of the composition

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In art, the design principle of balance functions to

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all the answers are correct

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The color properties are

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hue, value, and intensity

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Because she painted it repeatedly and because she lived out her life there, Georgia O'Keeffe is most closely associated with

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New Mexico

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The use of scale to indicate relative importance is known as ____________scale

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hierarchical

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Artists will often add ______________to provide interest and enliven the unity of a work of art.

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variety

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A 2-D enclosed line which can be actual or implied is

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shape

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This element of design has depth, height, and width.

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mass

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Made up of the colors refracted by Sir Isaac Newton's prism is the

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Color Wheel