chapter 13 art

Which of these statements is NOT true about the Qing Dynasty masterpiece Yu the Great Taming the Waters?

It is carved into the largest piece of marble ever quarried.

How does "assemblage" primarily differ from other sculptural processes?

It utilizes "found" objects.

Which of these processes best describes the one used by Rodin in sculpting The Burghers of Calais?

It was cast in several pieces and then welded together

What do Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and the Great Serpent Mound have in common?

They are both earthwork

Richard Serra's The Matter of Time is?

a series of installations

When a sculpture is created by building up the form with a material such as clay, the process is called?

additive.

A sculptural space that you can actually enter is referred to as?

an environment.

In Sky Cathedral the artist Louise Nevelson has combined found materials to create a sculpture. What is this process called?

assemblage

By the late fourteenth century, the African kingdom of Benin had developed tremendous refinement in the art of?

brass casting

The material most often associated with the process of "casting" is?

bronze.

Case of Bottles by the California Funk artist Robert Arneson illustrates the modeling sculptural process in which medium?

clay

The sculptural material most commonly associated with "modeling" or additive processes is?

clay

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?

contrapposto

Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels are generally referred to as?

earthworks

Pliable clay is made to hold its form permanently through the process of?

firing it.

Maidens and Stewards, a Parthenon fragment of the Panathenaic Procession, illustrates what ancient sculptural convention?

frieze

Allan Kaprow created "assemblages of events performed or perceived in more than one time and place." He called these?

happenings

Auguste Rodin's The Burghers of Calais is a remarkable example of which type of sculpture?

in-the-round

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?

ka.

The Egyptian limestone carving, Senwosret I led by Atum to Amun-Re, is an example of

low relief sculpture

Greek figurative sculpture was greatly influenced by Egyptian sculpture. What did the Greeks add?

naturalism

Wood and stone carvings are examples of?

subtractive sculpture

The Yoruba Display Piece produced for an oba, or king, is meant to reflect the king's power and ?

the power of the community's women

One of the complex aspects of wood carving that a sculptor must pay attention to is?

the wood's grain

The Tomb of Emperor Qin Shihuangdi shows an extraordinary grouping of what type of work?

Ceramics

Contingent is a typical work by the artist?

Eva Hesse.