Deck 9: Pattern and Rhythm

Question 1

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

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

Answer 1

A

Question 2

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

Answer 2

E

Question 3

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

A) Edward Weston
B) Rosa Bonheur
C) Suzanne Valadon
D) Pieter Bruegel
E) Chuck Close

Answer 3

A

Question 4

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 5

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

A) Suzanne Valadon
B) Chuck Close
C) Rosa Bonheur
D) Pieter Bruegel
E) Edward Weston

Question 6

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

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

Question 7

The seventeenth-century huqqa base (1.9.3)was created by an Islamic artist,or artists,in ________.

A) Persia
B) Arabia
C) Egypt
D) India
E) Afghanistan

Question 8

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 9

In Islamic art,it is unusual for an artist to depict images from the natural world because the Islamic religion prohibits the use of representation.Why do you think that the huqqa base (figure 1.9.3)and the pashmina carpet (figure 1.9.4)might have been acceptable even though they include depictions of plant forms? Or do you think that they were not acceptable in their time? Give your reasons why,or why not.

Question 10

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.

Question 11

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 12

In the Great Mosque (1.9.7)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
D) rectilinears
E) archilets

Question 13

The principle of rhythm does not apply to photography.

Question 14

The seventeenth-century pashmina carpet from northern India (1.9.4)uses repeated,stylized flowers as ________ to create a strong,unified design.

A) motifs
B) shapes
C) gardens
D) unrecognizable
E) textures

Question 15

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 16

The Blue Room is an artwork featuring multiple patterns by this twentieth-century French painter.

A) Valadon
B) Close
C) Arp
D) Bruegel
E) Weston

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) Rosa Bonheur
E) Pieter Bruegel

Question 18

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 19

A pattern with regular intervals creates ________ rhythm.

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

Question 20

The area covered by a pattern is called the ________.

A) motif
B) field
C) size
D) foreground
E) background

Question 21

In the etching The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters,Francisco Goya uses regularity of line and shape to create ________ rhythm,with a benign effect,in the lower half of the work.

A) an erratic
B) a wistful
C) a stable
D) a wild
E) all of the other answers

Question 22

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

A) Suzanne Valadon
B) Chuck Close
C) Francisco Goya
D) Rosa Bonheur
E) Edward Weston

Question 23

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

Question 24

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 25

Francisco Goya used visual rhythms to convey ideas and emotions in his works The Third of May,1808 and The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.Do the rhythms in Goya's works communicate the dichotomy of good and evil to you? If so,how? If not,what other meanings are created?

Question 26

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

A) bai
B) poi
C) facade
D) tiki
E) mo-mo

Question 27

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