PATTERN AND TEXTURE
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What term refers to the repetition of a design motif, a concept intrinsic to human thought processes and used to create visual interest on a surface?
View answer and explanationWhat psychological term is used to describe the basic human impulse to fill up empty spaces, often leading to the creation of patterns?
View answer and explanationIn the detail of Pablo Picasso's 'Harlequin' painting, what creates the 'jazzy rhythm'?
View answer and explanationHow do highly disciplined patterns, such as those on the Alhambra tiles, achieve their elaborate effects?
View answer and explanationWhat is the essential distinction between texture and pattern, according to the text?
View answer and explanationWhich statement accurately reflects the relationship between texture and pattern as described in the chapter?
View answer and explanationThe term 'tactile texture' in painting refers to what specific technique?
View answer and explanationWhat is the term for the technique of using thick pigment to create a rough, three-dimensional paint surface, as seen in the work of Van Gogh?
View answer and explanationHow does Roy Lichtenstein's print 'Brushstrokes' (1967) demonstrate the concept of implied texture?
View answer and explanationWhat is the artistic technique of creating a design by pasting down bits and pieces of colored and textured papers, cloth, or other materials called?
View answer and explanationMary Bauermeister's collage 'Progressions' (1963) creates a gradation in texture from fine to coarse using what materials?
View answer and explanationThe neck piece by Anni Albers and Alex Reed (c. 1940) is an example of collage that uses what kind of inventive found materials?
View answer and explanationWhat is the term for the impression of texture on a flat, smooth painted surface, which is purely visual and cannot be felt?
View answer and explanationThe artistic term 'verisimilitude' refers to an appearance that is what?
View answer and explanationWhich surrealist artist, mentioned in the chapter, used processes like frottage or rubbings to create eerie landscape textures?
View answer and explanationWhat does the French term 'trompe l'oeil' mean?
View answer and explanationWhy is textural trompe l'oeil most convincing when the subject depicted is shallow or almost two-dimensional?
View answer and explanationThe illustration for the Nike advertisement from 1995 employs which technique for expressive effect?
View answer and explanationWhen was the wall covering material made of cotton and cellophane by Anni Albers created?
View answer and explanationWhat is described as a 'dynamic way of capturing visual interest' in the detail from Picasso's 'Harlequin' painting?
View answer and explanationIn Jean-Léon Gérôme's painting 'The Duel after the Masquerade,' how is the effect of the harlequin pattern diminished?
View answer and explanationM.C. Escher's pattern drawings, such as 'Symmetry Drawing E94,' demonstrate a complete unity of what two elements, where every space is also a shape?
View answer and explanationIn Gustav Klimt's painting 'Hope, II', how does the use of pattern differ from the ordered patterns of the Alhambra or M.C. Escher?
View answer and explanationWhat visual element, no matter how subtle, will visually evoke texture in what might otherwise be seen as a flat pattern?
View answer and explanationIn Betye Saar's sculpture 'The Time Inbetween' (1974), what does the photocopy of the artist's hand underscore?
View answer and explanationAccording to the chapter, why are 'Do Not Touch' signs a practical necessity in sculpture exhibits?
View answer and explanationWhat is one stated advantage of using collage as an artistic medium, particularly for beginners?
View answer and explanationIn the context of 'trompe l'oeil', what is meant by the term 'visual color'?
View answer and explanationWhat material did Anni Albers use in her 1929 wall covering that anticipated a modern interest in recycling materials?
View answer and explanationThe chapter mentions that two categories of artistic texture are tactile and what other type?
View answer and explanationWhen did Harry Clarke create his half-tone engraving 'The Most Beautiful of All'?
View answer and explanationIn what year was Betye Saar's sculpture 'The Time Inbetween' created?
View answer and explanationRoy Lichtenstein's screen print 'Brushstrokes' was created in which year?
View answer and explanationIn what year did Pieter Claesz paint his still life featuring two lemons and a Roemer?
View answer and explanationEd Ruscha's 'Rancho,' an oil on canvas that exemplifies trompe l'oeil, was painted in what year?
View answer and explanationTexture is described as being a primary consideration in which of the following art areas?
View answer and explanationWhat does the text suggest is an irony about the close-up image of pleated silk shown in figure C on page 184?
View answer and explanationIn the photograph 'Brandywine I' by Elliot Barnathan, what creates sustained interest after the eye is initially drawn to the red details?
View answer and explanationWhat did Leonardo da Vinci observe that relates to the surrealist use of frottage and stains to create implied textures?
View answer and explanationWhat type of balance or order is the result when most patterns are reduced to a grid of some sort?
View answer and explanationHow is pattern used in Margaret Courtney-Clarke's photograph 'Anna Mahlangu Painting Her Home'?
View answer and explanationAccording to the chapter, which two artists created works with a title containing the word 'Harlequin'?
View answer and explanationThe technique of creating a 'relief painting' by attaching physical items to a painted surface is described as a step beyond what other technique?
View answer and explanationWhich artist's work is described as continuing the tradition of 'highly mathematical pattern-making' seen in the Alhambra?
View answer and explanationIn the black-and-white illustration by Harry Clarke, how are patterns and textures created?
View answer and explanationThe chapter refers to texture as a 'sensory reaction or sensation of touch' that we can enjoy vicariously through what?
View answer and explanationWhat type of art, often characterized by the inventive use of found materials, is considered one of the oldest forms of collage?
View answer and explanationThe Broadway Gateway Mural by Jan-Marie Spanard (1999-2000) succeeds in its trompe l'oeil deception partly because its subject is what?
View answer and explanationWhen did Van Gogh paint his 'Portrait of the Artist' that is used as an example of impasto?
View answer and explanationWhich of these artworks from the chapter was created between 1948 and 1954?
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