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Wood and stone carvings are examples of |
Subtractive sculpture |
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According to the author, what are the three basic ways that we can experience a sculpture |
Relief, In the round, As environments |
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Maidens and Stewards, a Parthenon fragment of the Panathenaic Procession, illustrates which ancient sculptural convention? |
Frieze |
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The competition panels of Sacrifice of Isaac by Lorenzo Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi are examples of |
high-relief sculpture |
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Giambologna’s The Capture of the Sabine Women is an example of |
Sculpture in-the-round |
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A sculptural space that you can actually enter is referred to as |
An environment |
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One of the complex aspects of wood carving that a sculptor must pay attention to is |
the wood’s grain |
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Ancient Egyptian stone funerary figures, such as Menkaure with a Woman, were carved to bear the spirit of the deceased into the eternity of the afterlife, known as the |
ka |
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Greek figurative sculpture was greatly influenced by Egyptian sculpture. What did the Greeks add? |
Naturalism |
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The Greek Kouros illustrates the idea of shifting or counterpositioning weight around the axis of the spine in figurative sculpture. This pose is called |
contrapposto |
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When a sculpture is created by building up the form with a material such as clay, the process is called |
additive |
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Pliable clay is made to hold its form permanently through the process of |
firing it |
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The Tomb of Emperor Qin Shihuangdi includes an extraordinary grouping of what type of work? |
Ceramics |
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The material most often associated with the process of "casting" is |
Bronze |
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What is the name of the age in which casting was invented? |
… |
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By the late fourteenth century, the African kingdom of Benin had developed tremendous refinement in the art of |
Brass casting |
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Which of these processes best describes the one used by Rodin in sculpting The Burghers of Calais? |
It was cast in several pieces and then welded together. |
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How does assemblage primarily differ from other sculptural processes? |
It utilizes "found" objects. |
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In Sky Cathedral, artist Louise Nevelson has combined found materials to create a sculpture. What is this process called? |
assemblage |
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The Yoruba display piece produced for an oba, or king, is meant to reflect the king’s power and |
the power of the community’s women. |
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Jeff Koons’s Puppy is an assemblage that uses, among other materials, |
live flowering plants |
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Nancy Rubins’s Pleasure Point is an installation because it |
introduces sculpture and other materials into a space to transform our experience of it |
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What do Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty and the Great Serpent Mound have in common? |
They are both earthworks |
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Storm King Art Center in upstate New York is an example of |
an art park that incorporates sculptures into a natural landscape. |
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Allan Kaprow created "assemblages of events performed or perceived in more than one time and place." He called these |
happenings |
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In the 1977 Imponderabilia, an example of performance art, viewers participated by |
passing through a "living door" formed by the two naked artists, one male and the other female. |
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