Exam 10: Pattern and Rhythm

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

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

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

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

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

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

Which of the following can create a pattern?

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

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.

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.

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 ________.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The principle of rhythm does not apply to photography.

A pattern with regular intervals creates ________ rhythm.

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.