Art Test 3 Chapter 11
Contrapposto meaning ....
"counterpoise" or "counterbalance" sets the body in a gentle s-shaped curved through a play of opposites
What is in the round?
A freestanding work that can be viewed from any angle, for it is finished on all sides.
What is a relief sculpture?
A sculpture in which forms project from but remain attached to a background surface
What is a process by which individual pieces or segments or objects are brought together to form a sculpture?
Assembling
Forms modeled in high relied generally project to what?
At least hald their understood depth
A relief is meant to what?
Be viewed frontally the way we view painting
Greek artists developed a distinctive stance for their standing figures called what?
Cantrapposto ex: Apoxyomenos
What involves a mold of some kind - Seems like a very indirect method of creating a sculpture - The sculptor can achieve smooth rounded shapes and a glowing reflective surface - Ex: The Bodhisattva Avalokiteshavara
Casting
What is the most common modeling material ?
Clay
What is considered a subtractive process - More aggressive than modeling and more direct than casting - Sculptors begin with a block of material and cuts, chips, and gouges away until the form of the sculpture emerges - Wood and stone are the principal materials
Craving
What is an example of assemblage ?
David Smith Cubi XII
What is an example of high relief?
Durga Fighting the Buffalo Demon
A sculpture in which forms project more boldly from their background is called what?
High Relief
Standard practice today is a variation called what? which allowed multiples to be made?
Indirect or Investment vasting
Increasing awareness of sculptures relationship to its surrounding space inspired artists to create spaces themselves as art, inaugurating a new artistic practice called what?
Installation
- The body is a subject that connects the universal and the personal in a unique way
Kiki Smith
The most common method for casting metal is called what? - The basic concept is simple and ingenious
Lost-wax process
The depiction of Lord Pascal's glorious death is what type of relief?
Low relief
What is an example of a sculpture in the round?
Maman
Sculptors are often called to do what?
Memorialize the hereos and heroines of a community ex: Rodin's The Burghers of Calais
What has been the most common material used for casting art objects any material that can be poured and then hardened will do?
Metal
What is the most direct of sculpture methods?
Modeling
What are the 4 basic methods for making a sculpture?
Modeling Casting Carving Assembling
What are considered additive processes?
Modeling and Assembling
The human figure is the most common subject of traditional African Sculpture but in fact the sculpture represents what?
Spirits of various kinds
Fired clay sometimes called what is surprisingly durable - much of the ancient art that has survived was formed from this material - Ex: Figurine of a Voluptuous Lady
Terra Cotta
An example of Artists animating the surface of important objects and architecture with relief sculpture is what?
The carving decorate the lid to the Sarcophagus of Pacal
A basic subject for sculpture is what?
The human figure
What is one reason the basic subject for sculpture is the human figure?
The relative permanance of the common material of sculpture and is a little more mysterious might call it "prescence"
Among the human images that artists are most often asked to make present in the world through sculpture are what?
Those connected with religion and the spirit realm ex: Kuya Preaching
- German sculptor - Late middle ages - Carved his virgin and child on the crescent moon
Tilman Riemenschneider
What is the material of lost-wax casting the material that will be discarded to make way for something else, something durable
Wax
What is an example of a relied sculpture?
Work from Mesoamerica
What low relief; bas-relief?
a technique in which the figures project only slightly from the background
What is an example of low relief ?
coins (ex: penny)
Since the Renaissance, the body has continued to serve as a subject through which sculptors express what?
feelings and ideas about the human experience.
What are traditional categories for classifying sculptures?
low and high relief
