Art Ch. 11& 12 – Flashcards

The carving method

The Indian sculpture Durga Fighting the Buffalo Demon is an example of

Four basic methods for making a sculpture are

The additive process of sculpture includes

Andy Goldsworthy uses ________ materials to create sculptures that are ________.

The subtractive process involves

not meant to be viewed in the round, not finished on all sides, and often used to decorate architecture

In sculpture, what is the most popular modeling material?

Fired clay is sometimes called

Which of the following concepts conceives of a space and everything in it as a work of art?

The ________ process dates back to the 3rd millennium B.C.E.

Casting is known as ________ method.

Sculptors will often create a "sketch" out of ________ to test ideas before proceeding to their medium of choice.

What is the key difference between the process of lost-wax casting as practiced in ancient times and that same process today?

________ is a sculptural process of bringing together individual pieces, segments, or objects to form a sculpture.

Projects boldly from the background, and elements of high-relief may be in the round, unattached to the background.

They did not believe in trying to influence people through images; they favored industrial and construction materials; and they attempted to offer a pure experience by letting the materials speak for themselves.

Contrapposto (meaning counter poise or counterbalance) was developed by ________ as a pose for sculptures of the human figure.

The artworks of Christo and Jeanne-Claude are intended

Serpent Mound and Spiral Jetty are known as

The sculpture The Scraper is an idealized figure from which civilization?

The sculpture, The Dying Slave, employing the contrapposto stance, was created by which artist?

Carved in a broad style of plain surfaces and subtle modeling, Colossal Head is thought to represent ________ rulers.

What separates the art object from the craft object?

Wood is not very durable because

The Tree of Jesse is a work from

The principal ingredient of glass is

Although the chemical composition of ________ changes when exposed to extreme heat, ________ doesn't change chemically when its pliability is altered by heat.

The most common way to shape a hollow glass vessel is by

The work OneShot by Patrick Jouin for Materialise .MGX is a

The Arts and Crafts movement came about as a reaction to

Islamic cultures have focused a great deal of aesthetic attention on

Industrial art as discussed by Gustav Stickley in The Craftsman

In weaving, the set of fibers that is held taut on a loom or frame is called

Wood is a popular craft material because

Which of the following is made from the sap of a tree?

The ancient Olmecs of Mesoamerica prized ________ for its translucence, which they associated with rainwater.

Forging

An archaeologist asked ________ to reconstruct an entire pot from a broken piece he had found, thus launching her career and the revival of Pueblo pottery.

The chair of Hetepheres

The secret of ____________ was discovered and perfected in China, and for hundreds of years potters elsewhere failed to duplicate it.

By far the fastest method of creating a hollow, rounded clay form is by means of the

What is the key difference between the process of lost-wax casting as practiced in ancient times and that same process today?