ASC Exam 3

This American artist created a large earthwork titled Spiral Jetty in the Great Salt Lake in Utah in 1969-70.

Artist Robert Smithson

This African-American artist created the work The Liberation of Aunt Jemima (2.4.18) from an assemblage of found objects.

Betye Saar

The earliest existing printed artworks on paper were created in this culture.

China

Which of these is not an additive process of sculpting?

Chiseling

Menkaure and His Wife, Queen Khamerernebty was made by sculptors from which culture?

Egyptian

Which of the following nudes was made first and served as an influence on the others?

Titian, Venus of Urbino

The sculptural process in which the artist carves only in shallow depth is called ________.

bas-relief

The wooden statue of the Hawaiian war god Ku-ka'ili-moku (2.4.7) was created using this method of sculpting:

carving

This printmaking process means "stone writing" in Greek.

lithography

This intaglio process employs acid to mar the surface of a metal plate.

mezzotint

Unlike freestanding sculpture, this type of sculpture is created to be viewed from one side only.

relief

Michelangelo believed ________ to be the finest and most challenging of all the visual arts.

sculpture

All sculptures have this characteristic in common:

they exist in three-dimensional space

Ancient Greek notions of beauty were based upon the combination of an underlying canon of mathematical proportions with the finely honed physiques possessed by male athletes. T/F

true

How were Icarus and Blue Nude II made?

using painted paper cutouts

When and where was the artist of Olympia working?

Nineteenth-century France.

What concepts of beauty are conveyed in the sculpture of a head, believed to represent a king of Ife (4.9.6)? the community's core values of composure, wisdom, and power both internal attributes as well as external appearance elegant lines, delicate features, and a composed demeanor graceful and refined facial features

all are correct

This earthwork, constructed by the prehistoric inhabitants of North America, is located in Ohio.

great serpent mound

When a printmaker rolls ink onto a raised surface and presses a piece of paper onto it, the resulting image on the paper is known as ________.

impression