art 100 chapter 11

Look at this image. How does Auguste portray the individuals in The Burghers of Calais?

As individuals facing death in their own way

The use of found objects as a sculptural material is an example of what type of sculptural technique?

Assembling

Beginning in the 1960s artists began to create works of impermanent sculptures to explore what ideas?

Bringing people together in a new way Avoiding sales and ownerships of an object Bringing art closer to people's everyday lives

Which sculpting method includes using a specifically shaped container into which the liquid is poured and then allowed to cool and harden?

Casting

What is the most common sculptural material used for modeling?

Clay

True or false: Installation art always replicates familiar spaces such as hotel rooms or offices.

False

Which are methods used in carving?

Gouging Chipping Cutting

Which descriptions apply to carving?

It is more aggressive than modeling. It is more direct than casting. It is a subtractive process.

Why do much ancient art that still exists in the 21st century made of terra cotta?

It was surprisingly durable.

What is installation art?

Modifying space in some way and allowing the viewer to experience that space

Look at this image. What type of sculpture is this? pharaoh

Relief

Look at this image. What type of sculpture is this?

Relief High relief

If in the ancient world statues were often believed to have had an ambiguous, porous relationship to life, then which of the following can be said?

Statues could stand in for the bodies of dead individuals in rituals and ceremonies. Statues could offer physical protection for the bodies of the dead. Statues could become reanimated through the intense devotion of the living.

Taking a block of marble and carving a human figure out of it is considered to be what kind of sculptural process?

Subtractive

Which characteristics best describe synthetic resin as a sculptural material?

The appearance of more traditional sculptural material can be easily mimicked. A wide range of colored pigments in can be added to incorporate color.

What is assemblage?

The art of bringing together individual objects to form a sculpture

Which are characteristics of earthworks?

The element of time is central to earthworks. They were originally conceived of as a way to make art that could not be bought and sold. They enter into the natural world and participate in its changes.

What was Auguste Rodin memorializing in The Burghers of Calais?

The self-sacrifice of six townsmen of 14th-century Calais

Why is the lost-wax process of casting suitably named?

The wax mold is melted away so that it can be replaced by the metal.

Look at this image. What is the formal pose of Menkaure and Khamerenebty meant to convey?

Their status as "junior gods" Their eternal existence The power of the rulers

In lost-wax casting, what is the purpose of the metal pins placed into the clay core?

They hold the core in place after the wax melts.

True or false: To portray a human being in sculpture is to bring it into the world itself and give it a version of life.

True

Look at this image. Based on the ancient Egyptian convention of depicting human form, how are the pharaoh Menkaure and Khamerenebty portrayed?

With idealized facial features and bodies Facing straight forward, with the pharaoh's arms arms stiff at his sides

What are the principal materials used for carving?

Wood Stone

A work of art that is made for a specific place using natural materials found there is called a(n) ______.

earthwork

Snowmen, Sandcastles and Christo and Jeanne-Claude's The Gates are all examples of _____.

impermanent sculptures

________ is a soft, uniformly-grained, material that can be carved easily and was frequently used as a sculptural material in southern in Germany during the Renaissance.

limewood