1. How are symbols used in art?
2. What do the differences in African masks show?
3. Why do artists use optical illusions?
4. How are the ideas of scale and proportion the same? How are they different?
5. How was Renaissance art different from Medieval art?

1. Symbolism in Art and Writing. Symbolism is one of the most important elements in giving your art depth. It can be in the colors of a painting, the metaphors in a poem, or the setting of a scene or book. Symbols can be very broad, like a storm that symbolizes danger, or a crow that symbolizes death.

2. African masks often represent a spirit and it is strongly believed that the spirit of the ancestors possesses the wearer. Ritual ceremonies generally depict deities, spirits of ancestors, mythological beings, good and or evil, the dead, animal spirits, and other beings believed to have power over humanity.

3. Its roots are in kinetic art, which is a genre that creates movement “perceivable by the viewer.” Op Art is an offshoot of it, in which this movement is produced through optical illusions. ... Contemporary forms of illusion art are as varied as the tools used to create them.

4. Scale and proportion are both design elements that have to do with size. Scale is the size of one object in relation to the other objects in a design or artwork. Proportion refers to the size of the parts of an object in relationship to other parts of the same object.

5.  Medieval art was mostly religious and concerned with conveying Christian beliefs and values. ... The Renaissance was a period of revolutionary change in politics, science, religion and especially art. The biggest difference between Renaissance art and Medieval art was the focus on artistic realism.

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