chapter 13 art – Flashcards
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Maidens and Stewards, a Parthenon fragment of the Panathenaic Procession, illustrates what ancient sculptural convention?
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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?
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ka.
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Case of Bottles by the California Funk artist Robert Arneson illustrates the modeling sculptural process in which medium?
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clay
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Contingent is a typical work by the artist?
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Eva Hesse.
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The Tomb of Emperor Qin Shihuangdi shows an extraordinary grouping of what type of work?
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Ceramics
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Richard Serra's The Matter of Time is?
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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?
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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?
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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 ?
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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?
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They are both earthwork
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The Egyptian limestone carving, Senwosret I led by Atum to Amun-Re, is an example of
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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?
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contrapposto
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Auguste Rodin's The Burghers of Calais is a remarkable example of which type of sculpture?
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in-the-round
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Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels are generally referred to as?
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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?
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assemblage
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Wood and stone carvings are examples of?
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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?
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additive.
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One of the complex aspects of wood carving that a sculptor must pay attention to is?
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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?
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happenings
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Pliable clay is made to hold its form permanently through the process of?
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firing it.
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A sculptural space that you can actually enter is referred to as?
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an environment.
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How does "assemblage" primarily differ from other sculptural processes?
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It utilizes "found" objects.
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The sculptural material most commonly associated with "modeling" or additive processes is?
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clay
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The material most often associated with the process of "casting" is?
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bronze.
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Greek figurative sculpture was greatly influenced by Egyptian sculpture. What did the Greeks add?
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naturalism
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By the late fourteenth century, the African kingdom of Benin had developed tremendous refinement in the art of?
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brass casting
