Rhythm A visual tempo or beat. Rhythm suggests movement or action. Rhythm is a regular repetition of elements to produce the look and feel of movement. It is often achieved through the placement of repeated components which invite the viewer's eye to jump rapidly or glide smoothly from one to the next. Vocaboulary: Glide smoothly: scivolare dolcemente
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, Marcel Duchamp, 1912,
Rhythm Rhythm is the repetition of lines, shapes, or colors to create a feeling of movement.
Rhythm
There are five main types of rhythm:
• Alternating - repetition of two or more components that are used interchangeably. • Random - repeating elements without a specified order or arrangement. • Flowing – curved or circular elements that give the art movement. • Regular– repeating elements with a specified order or arrangement that can be measured. • Progressive – repeating elements in a pattern that change either in size or color as they repeat.
ALTERNATINGÂ RHYTHM Alternating rhythm describes an artwork that contains a repetition of two or more components that are used interchangeably. Some alternating rhythm examples include alternating light and dark colors or placing various shapes and/or colors in a repeating pattern.
ALTERNATINGÂ RHYTHM
Hans Hinterreiter, ME 25 B, 1935 Robert Delaunay, Endless Rhythm, 1934 TATE
ALTERNATINGÂ RHYTHM
George Tooker, Government Bureau, 1956
RANDOMÂ RHYTHM Random rhythm describes an artwork that contains repeating elements without a specified order or arrangement. Some random rhythm examples include splatters of paint or shells on a beach.
RANDOM RHYTHM
René Magritte, Golconde, 1953
RANDOMÂ RHYTHM
Piet Mondrian. Broadway Boogie Woogie. 1942-43 MOMA
FLOWINGÂ RHYTHM Flowing rhythm describes an artwork that contains curved or circular elements that give the art movement. Some flowing rhythm examples include flowers, clouds, or waves.
FLOWINGÂ RHYTHM Flowing rhythm is created by undulating elements and intervals, bending and curving motifs and spaces. Natural flowing rhythm can be seen in streams and waterways, beaches and waves, sand dunes and glaciers, rolling hills and wind-blown grasses.
Gloria Petyarre, Bush Medicine Dreaming, 2008
FLOWINGÂ RHYTHM
Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, c. 1829-32
FLOWINGÂ RHYTHM
Henri Matisse, The Dance, 1910
FLOWINGÂ RHYTHM WHAT MOVEMENT SHOW RHYTHM? The paint strokes and the stars The line of the brush strokes do the most to show rhythm by their swirling. The swirls and the circles help to show rhythm.
Vocaboulary: Paint strokes:pennellate
Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889
Swirl:vortici
REGULARÂ RHYTHM Regular rhythm describes an artwork that contains repeating elements with a specified order or arrangement that can be measured. Some regular rhythm examples include evenly spaced windows or tiles.
REGULARÂ RHYTHM
Grant Wood, Fall Plowing, 1931
REGULARÂ RHYTHM This is also progressive
Wayne Thiebaud, Banana Splits, 1964
REGULARÂ RHYTHM
Wayne Thiebaud, Nine Jellied Apples, 1963
PROGRESSIVEÂ RHYTHM Progressive rhythm describes an artwork that contains repeating elements in a pattern that change either in size or color as they repeat. Some progressive rhythm examples include building blocks arranged from smallest to largest and spirals.
PROGRESSIVEÂ RHYTHM This is also Regular. Regular rhythm can involve changing elements when the change is the same each time Three Flags, Jasper Johns, 1958, encaustic on canvas, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA /
PROGRESSIVEÂ RHYTHM
MC Escher, Smaller and Smaller, 1956
Andy Goldsworthy, Carefully broken pebbles scratched white with another stone, 1985
PROGRESSIVEÂ RHYTHM
Bramante Staircase in the Vatican, 1932
PROGRESSIVEÂ RHYTHM In art, visual rhythm, which is similar to pattern, may be produced by repeating one or more motifs in a recognizable or predictable order.
Jeffrey Smart- Man with bouqet
Jeffrey Smart Study for Holiday
PROGRESSIVE RHYTHM features progressive rhythm created through repeated but changing shapes and lines. By trying to capture the figure moving down the stairs, Duchamp avoids creating one specific focal point. Instead, the viewer’s eye follows the movement of the figure from the top left of the canvas to the bottom right. Although the shapes are abstract they suggest the changing posture of a walking figure.
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, Marcel Duchamp, 1912,
The consistent use of a limited colour palette of yellow and brown ties the shapes together. They read as one developing, moving arrangement with a progressive rhythm.
Rhythm Similar to rhythm in music and dance, visual Rhythm is closely related to movement. It may be produced by repeating one of several units of a design, such as a triangle shape or the colour green. In this work by Margaret Preston, Visual Rhythm is achieved by the repetition of the colour red and the shape of the petals. The use of these elements lead the eye around the painting.
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In this fun rhythm in art examples video, the differences between pattern, repetition, and rhythm are described and put to music:
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