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Maidens and Stewards, a Parthenon fragment of the Panathenaic Procession, illustrates what ancient sculptural convention? |
frieze |
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Ancient Egyptian stone funerary figures, such as King Menkaure, were carved to bear the spirit of the deceased into the eternity of the afterlife, known as the? |
ka. |
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Case of Bottles by the California Funk artist Robert Arneson illustrates the modeling sculptural process in which medium? |
clay |
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Contingent is a typical work by the artist? |
Eva Hesse. |
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The Tomb of Emperor Qin Shihuangdi shows an extraordinary grouping of what type of work? |
Ceramics |
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Richard Serra’s The Matter of Time is? |
a series of installations |
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Which of these statements is NOT true about the Qing Dynasty masterpiece Yu the Great Taming the Waters? |
It is carved into the largest piece of marble ever quarried. |
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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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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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What do Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty and the Great Serpent Mound have in common? |
They are both earthwork |
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The Egyptian limestone carving, Senwosret I led by Atum to Amun-Re, is an example of |
low relief sculpture |
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The Greek Kouros illustrates the idea of shifting or counter positioning weight around the axis of the spine in figurative sculpture. This pose is called? |
contrapposto |
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Auguste Rodin’s The Burghers of Calais is a remarkable example of which type of sculpture? |
in-the-round |
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Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels are generally referred to as? |
earthworks |
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In Sky Cathedral the artist Louise Nevelson has combined found materials to create a sculpture. What is this process called? |
assemblage |
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Wood and stone carvings are examples of? |
subtractive sculpture |
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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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One of the complex aspects of wood carving that a sculptor must pay attention to is? |
the wood’s grain |
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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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Pliable clay is made to hold its form permanently through the process of? |
firing it. |
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A sculptural space that you can actually enter is referred to as? |
an environment. |
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How does "assemblage" primarily differ from other sculptural processes? |
It utilizes "found" objects. |
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The sculptural material most commonly associated with "modeling" or additive processes is? |
clay |
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The material most often associated with the process of "casting" is? |
bronze. |
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Greek figurative sculpture was greatly influenced by Egyptian sculpture. What did the Greeks add? |
naturalism |
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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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