Art 1.9

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The recurrence of a single element in a work of art is called ________.
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pattern
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Which of the following can create a pattern?
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the warp and weft of woven cloth fish scales dried, cracked mud stacks of cans Correct! all of the other answers
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The area covered by a pattern is called the ________.
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field
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The Blue Room is an artwork featuring multiple patterns by this twentieth-century French painter.
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Valadon
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In the painting The Blue Room, the artist uses three patterns that ________.
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contrast
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A design repeated as a unit in a pattern is called a ________.
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motif
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The seventeenth-century huqqa base (1.9.3) was created by an Islamic artist, or artists, in ________.
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India
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This American painter used small abstract motifs to create a huge self-portrait.
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Chuck Close
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The American quilt artist Deborah Coates used simple motifs to create patterns that implied "freedom," because her work was dedicated to freeing slaves. What was the specific quilt motif that she used?
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Birds in the Air
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Deborah Coates devoted her skill as an artist to the cause of freeing slaves. Her work was sold at bazaars that would raise awareness and funding for this issue. How are the actions of Deborah Coates similar to contemporary activists who are working for positive change? How are they different?
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Deborah Coates worked in ways that are very similar to contemporary fundraising, but she was limited in how quickly and far-reaching her message was able to travel.
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In the Maya lintel showing Shield Jaguar and Lady Xoc there is a pattern of small, square modules that runs across the top of the image and then down the left side. These modules are called __________ and can be interpreted to tell us the identity of the subjects in the artwork .
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glyphs
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There is rhythm in an artwork when it has at least this many points of reference.
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two
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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.
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Pieter Bruegel
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A pattern with regular intervals creates ________ rhythm.
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repetitive
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The Great Mosque in this Spanish city displays repetitive rhythms that can be associated with worship activities, such as reciting prayers.
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Córdoba
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In the Great Mosque (1.9.9) 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?
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voussoirs
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This photographer revealed a natural example of progressive rhythm in his photograph titled Artichoke Halved.
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Edward Weston
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Artichoke Halved is a photograph that uses this point of view to capture unique characteristics of a natural object.
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close-up
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The principle of rhythm does not apply to photography.
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False
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What is the name for any side of a building that is intended to be looked at?
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facade
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On the island of Palau in the western Pacific, a traditional men's long house is called a ________.
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bai
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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.
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Rosa Bonheur
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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.
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irregular
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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.
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a stable
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This Native American artist created the work Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People) by combining different kinds of objects, both two- and three-dimensional, to give the work a strong sense of presence. Who is this artist?
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith