"Picture This" Slideshow:

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Quiz #1

"Picture This" Slideshow
Due: August 16

Questions

1. Smooth, flat, horizontal shapes give us a sense of _________ and _________.
2. Vertical shapes are more _________ and more _________.
3. Diagonal shapes are _________ because they imply _________ or _________.
4. The upper half of a picture is a place of _________, _________, and _________; objects placed in the top half often feel more _________.
   The bottom half of a picture feels more _________, _________, _________, or _________; objects in the bottom half also feel more _________.
5. The center of the page is the most effective _________. It is the point of greatest _________.The edges and corners of the _________ are the edges and corners of the _________.
6. White or light backgrounds feel _________ to us than dark backgrounds because we can see _________ during the _________ and only _________ at _________.
7. We feel more _________ looking at pointed shapes; we feel more _________ or _________ looking at rounded shapes or curves.
8. The larger an object is in a picture, the _________ it feels.
9. We associate the same or similar colors much more _________ than we associate the same or similar shapes.
10. We _________ contrasts, or, put another way, contrast enables us to _________.

Source: "Picture This: How Pictures Work" by Molly Bang