NCC Art Appreciation Quiz 10

"Contingent" is a typical work by the artist _______

Eva Hesse

The Japanese Tea Ceremony is a ritual that encourages the adherent to "leave the concerns of the daily world behind and enter a timeless world of ease, harmony, and mutual respect." Which of these ceramic pieces would be used in such a practice?

Hon'ami Koetsu's Amagumo

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

additive

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

frieze

Auguste Rodin's "The Burghers of Calais" is a remarkable example of what 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 technique of sewing buttons onto linen, used by Marilyn Lanfear in Aunt Billie, is most closely related to which of these traditional techniques?

mosaic

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

naturalism

Originally, when an artist worked in :the crafts," it meant that they _____

produced functional objects

What technique was used in creating Tutankhamun Hunting Ostriches from His Chariot>

repousse and embossing

Richard Serra's The Matter of Time is _________

a series of installations

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

We can trace the earliest distinction between the crafts and fine arts to ________

Joseph Wedgwood, who in 1759 began manufacturing both cheap earthenware table settings and elegant hand-made luxury items.

The Bent-Corner Chest is carved from cedar, a wood that is native to which region and favored by Native American artists there?

The Northwest American coast

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

They are both earthworks.

The textile design by Anni Albers found in the text was inspired by which source?

Wolfgang von Goethe's Metamorphosis of Plants

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 process is __________

clay

Native Americans used a traditional method for producing pots that did not involve the potter's wheel. What was it?

coiling

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

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

firing it.

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

All fiber arts evolved from _______

weaving

Hon'ami Koetsu's Amagumo tea bowl was perfectly made to fit the hand and was made in the early seventeenth century at one of the "Six Ancient Kilns," the traditional centers of what kind of ceramics in Japan?

wood-fired