Module 9 Inquisitive
What did the Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, and architect Michelangelo think about sculpture?
- Sculpture was the greatest of all the visual arts. - It was only a proper sculpture if you could roll it down a hill without breaking it. - The process involved freeing the figure from the stone in which it was trapped.
How, if at all, did action painting influence the creation of art using alternative media and/or processes?
1. It expanded the previously narrow possibilities for painting.2. It was believed to have exhausted all that could be said with paint on canvas.3. It focused attention on what the artist was doing.
In what century did sculptors begin to look beyond the traditional cast, carved, or modeled forms of creating artworks, to more modern methods, such as the process of construction?
19th
Who stated that "art is an action that transforms our thoughts"?
Ai WeiWei
How, if at all, did the early twentieth-century Dada movement influence the creation of art using alternative media and/or processes?
It focused on the message over the medium. It challenged traditional notions of art. It brought objects from the real world into a fine art context.
Which figure associated with the Dada movement was a major influence on later twentieth-century artists who turned to alternative media and processes as their preferred means of expression?
Marcel Duchamp
Who pioneered the revolutionary idea that any object, simply by virtue of being chosen and presented by an artist, can become a work of art?
Marcel Duchamp
How, if at all, do the formal qualities of Barbara Kruger's conceptual artwork Belief + Doubt (=Sanity) relate to its meaning?
The combination of text and image in the artist's work addresses consumerism and feminist interventions. & The installation addresses the viewers directly, challenging their social relations.
What was Swiss artist Jean Tinguely interested in exploring in his conceptual 1960 work Homage to New York?
accident uncertainty impermanence
What is a readymade?
any everyday object an artist has presented as a work of art
a deliberate incorporation in an artwork of material originally created by someone else
appropriation
Which, if any, of the following terms relate to the Spanish artist Joan Miró's Object?
appropriation found object assemblage
artwork created using found objects, junk, or other non-art materials
assemblage
artwork made of pre-existing three-dimensional objects and materials
assemblage
what are examples of subtractive processes?
carving drilling polishing
Which media are well suited to the casting sculptural process?
clay, bronze, plaster
artwork where ideas are the most important aspect of it
conceptual art
what are examples of additive processes?
constructing modeling casting
Which, if any, of the following details correctly relate to the artistic movement that this sculpture belongs to?
developed in the Soviet Union employed industrial manufacturing techniques considered art to be an investigation of social needs
What form do the artworks from early in Vito Acconci's career take?
documentation of events, including notes and photographs performances based on situations and sets of actions he designed for himself
What is the name for the largest form of sculpture—usually additive, but sometimes subtractive—which uses the surface of the globe, or the natural environment, as its primary material?
earthworks
Which media are well suited to carving
ebony marble ivory
What can be used as substitution materials in the substitution process associated with the creation of sculptures?
foam wax wood
a pre-existing object presented with little or no alteration as part of a work or as a finished work of art in itself
found object
What is the specific term used to describe an art event marked by impromptu actions and unknown outcomes?
happening
What was John Cage's innovations in the arts?
his emphasis on chance and performance his compositions with silence his employment of multiple art forms
an artwork consisting of a constructed space or environment
installation
an intentional environment created as a completed work of art
installation
Which, if any, of the following terms DO NOT relate to the Spanish artist Joan Miró's Object?
installation kinetic construction readymade
Contrapposto
is an Italian term that means "counterpoise". It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot, so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs in the axial plane.
Which media are well suited to modeling
kaolin wax terra-cotta
What are the key ideas explored in Ai Weiwei's Colored Vases, if any of the below?
mass production the tensions between cultural artifacts and contemporary art preservation and destruction the conflicting cultural traditions of East and West the status of the object
Why were the materials of fat and felt important for the artworks of Joseph Beuys?
once saved his life during a plane crash
artwork involving the human body, usually in front of a live audience
performance art
Sculptural materials that are soft, pliable, and are easily manipulated possess what specific property?
plastic
a pre-existing everyday object presented as a work of art
readymade
What specific term is used to describe a stationary scene, in either three dimensions or two dimensions, that has been arranged for artistic impact?
tableau
thought of as a form of design in which the figures or objects within a composition have been positioned so that the interactions between them create a particularly striking and significant effect.
tableau
What inspired the making of Yoko Ono's Wish Tree series of conceptual artworks?
the Japanese practice of tying prayers to a tree & an idea of an open-ended beginning point for an artwork
What is the subject of this late sixteenth-century sculpture?
the ancient Roman legend of the rape of the Sabine women & a symbolic expression of Florentine power
How, if at all, does performance art differ from theatrical performance?
the venue(s) where it takes place & the way its outcomes are often determined by chance
Who completes many of Yoko Ono's conceptual artworks?
the viewer
Which of the following statements most accurately describes the nature of Marina Abramović's art?
they are performances that affect her physical and mental abilities
