Deck 10: Pattern and Rhythm

Question 1

In the painting The Blue Room, the artist uses three patterns that ________.

A) are focal points
B) are similar
C) are abstract Motif
D) merge
E) contrast

Answer 1

E

Question 2

The principle of rhythm does not apply to photography.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Is it possible to create a work of art that is completely random, or is our dependence on pattern so strong that such a work would be incomprehensible? Explain your reasons why or why not.

Answer 3

Randomness

Question 4

A design repeated as a unit in a pattern is called a ________.

A) motif
B) focal point
C) color
D) value
E) huqqa

Question 5

On the island of Belau in the western Pacific, a traditional men's long house is called a ________.

A) bai
B) poi
C) facade
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Goya, The Third of May, 1808: Visual Rhythm in the Composition
D) tiki
E) mo-mo

Question 6

In the painting The Third of May, 1808, this Spanish artist used alternating rhythm to contrast "good" and "bad."

A) Suzanne Valadon
B) Hans Arp
C) Francisco Goya Rhythmic Design Structure
D) Rosa Bonheur
E) Edward Weston

Question 7

In the Great Mosque (1.156) there are red and white stone wedges that make up the series of repeating arches that dominate the interior. What are these stone wedges called?

A) segments
B) voussoirs
C) points Progressive Rhythm
D) rectilinears
E) archilets

Question 8

The Great Mosque in this Spanish city displays repetitive rhythms that can be associated with worship activities, such as reciting prayers.

A) Madrid
B) Barcelona
C) Córdoba
D) Bilbao
E) Valencia

Question 9

This art movement, of which Hans Arp was a member, valued randomness, absurdity, and nonsense over rational or orderly patterns.

A) Dada
B) Baroque
C) Pop art
D) Surrealism
E) Impressionism

Question 10

This photographer revealed a natural example of progressive rhythm in his photograph titled Artichoke Halved.

A) Edward Weston
B) Hans Arp
C) Suzanne Valadon
D) Pieter Bruegel
E) Chuck Close

Question 11

In Hunters in the Snow a number of rhythms and subsidiary rhythms draw the viewer's attention through the work. Can you specify where this is happening and how the artist is achieving these rhythmic sequences? Find at least three different areas of rhythm in the work.

Question 12

What is the name for any side of a building that is intended to be looked at?

A) a peristyle
B) a cornice
C) a stylobate
D) a facade
E) a truss

Question 13

The recurrence of a single element in a work of art is called ________.

A) style
B) focal point
C) pattern
D) emphasis
E) space

Question 14

This American painter used small abstract motifs to create a huge self-portrait.

A) Suzanne Valadon
B) Chuck Close
C) Hans Arp
D) Pieter Bruegel
E) Edward Weston

Question 15

Artichoke Halved is a photograph that uses this point of view to capture unique characteristics of a natural object.

A) focus
B) field of vision
C) focal length
D) rule of thirds
E) close-up

Question 16

There is rhythm in an artwork when it has at least this many points of reference.

A) two
B) one
C) three
D) four
E) none

Question 17

This sixteenth-century Flemish artist designed the work Hunters in the Snow using rhythms and subsidiary rhythms that lead the viewer's eye through the work.

A) Edward Weston
B) Chuck Close
C) Suzanne Valadon
D) Hans Arp
E) Pieter Bruegel

Question 18

If you were to create an artwork by throwing open cans of paint over your shoulder onto a canvas behind you, this work would be an example of ________.

A) precision
B) order
C) rationality Rhythm
D) randomness
E) social realism

Question 19

Which of the following can create a pattern?

A) the warp and weft of woven cloth
B) fish scales
C) dried, cracked mud
D) stacks of cans
E) all of the other answers

Question 20

A pattern with regular intervals creates ________ rhythm.

A) a repetitive
B) a progressive
C) an alternating
D) an irregular
E) a geometric

Question 21

This female artist brilliantly used a rhythmic structure in her painting Plowing in the Nivernais: The Dressing of the Vines, an image of cattle at work in the fields.

A) Rosa Bonheur
B) Suzanne Valadon
C) Judy Chicago
D) Artemisia Gentileschi
E) Mary Cassatt

Question 22

The rhythmic movement of the cattle and the plowmen in Plowing in the Nivernais: The Dressing of the Vines suggests struggle and the natural ebb and flow of nature by using ________ rhythm.

A) irregular
B) repetitive
C) progressive
D) alternating
E) secular