Art Theory Ch 11 & 12

When did artists working in tradition "craft" media begin to claim as a place in the fine arts world?

1960s

For a sculpture to be considered high relief, the forms must project out from the background for at least ____ of their visual depth.

50 percent

This ivory vessel from Sierre Leone combines ____ and ____ forms and imagery.

African European

Which of the following are the principal materials used for carving?

Wood and stone

What culture is most closely associated with a tradition of sculpture that considered the human body itself a worth subject?

Ancient Greece

The 19th-century movement that promoted the handmade object and held exhibition of pottery, textiles, and wood making is called the

Arts and Crafts movement

Where is lacquer unique to?

East Asia

If we no longer know the original context in which an object was created, we can not evaluate or appreciate it as a work of art

False

Ancestors to this lion aquamanile, which holds for priests to wash their hands, probably have their origin in

Iran

According to Kiki Smith, why did she choose the human form as subject for her work?

It is only form everyone has their own authentic experience with

____ is a soft, uniformly-grande, material that can be carved easily and was frequently used as a sculptural material is southern in Germany during the Renaissance

Limewood

Which of the following best describes what the Minimalist artists were trying to accomplish?

art should be about a pure and honest aesthetic

According to Gustav Stickley, an industrial design, the role of a(n) ____ is to design an object that can be made by industrial methods.

artist

The ancient Human-Headed Winged Lion, from about the 9th century B.C.E., was carved as a relief, which is meant to

be viewed from the front and side

Beginning in the 1960s artists began to create works of impermanent sculpture to explore what ideas?

bringing art closer to people's everyday lives bringing people together in a new way avoiding sales and ownerships of an object

Assemblage is the art of

bringing together individual objects to form a sculpture

The technique of melting metal to a liquid states and pouring it into a mold is called

casting

Some people in the art field distinguish between assembling, which brings sculpture parts on or near each other, and ____, which joins the pieces through a process such as welding or nailing.

constructing

The distinctive counterbalanced S-shaped stance, characteristics of Greek, Roman, and Renaissance figural sculpture is called ____.

contrapposto

The grouping of particular arts under the heading find arts is not natural but

cultural

A work of art that is made for a specific place using natural materials found there is called a(n)

earthwork

Jade is known for which of the following properties?

extreme hardness

Which of the following are advantages of using bronze to cast sculptures?

flows freely when poured, allowing for small detailed works is extremely durable even for thin pieces can create smooth rounded shapes

The artist Human Bhabha is mostly closely associated with the use of what sculptural material?

found objects

What is true about the life and career of Olowe of Ise?

he was the royal sculpture to the king of Ise he oversaw a workshop and dozens of apprentices

Snowmen, Sandcastles, and Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Gates are all examples of ____.

impermanent sculptures

Which of the following is the term for a freestanding sculpture that can be viewed from any angle and is finished on all sides?

in the round

Which of the following describes the type of materials that Minimalist artists prefer to use in their work?

industrial or construction

Being hollow helps a ceramic object because

it is hard to fire solid clay, which might explode in the kiln most ceramics are meant to hold things

Why is so much ancient art that still exists in the 21st century made of terra cotta?

it was surprisingly durable

India has banned the ____ trade became of the destruction caused to the elephant population

ivory

This Ardabil carpet from 16th-century Persia, like most Islamic carpets, was labor-intensive because it used the ____ technique, in which segments of wool were tied to a woven ground.

knotting

The French term bas-relief means ____ relief, which is when the figures protrude only a small degree from the background.

low

Installation art is about

modifying space in some way and allowing the viewer to experience that space

When glass is heated, it becomes ____, or melted

molten

When clay is fired in a kiln, it is no longer

plastic

A hard white translucent ceramic made of white clay is called

porcelain

Early 20th century European interest in art from other cultures thought to be less sophisticated and less complex, which brought about works such as Paula Modersohn-Becker's Kneeling Mother with a Child at Her Breast, was called

primitivism

Using this illustration, arrange the events of the lost-wax process in the order in which they occur.

put wax over the clay model add wax ads and metal pins add a clay casing heat the wax so it runs out pour in the bronze break the mold

Which of the following are considered to be vegetable fibers?

raffia cotton flax

Lacquer is made from tree ___.

sap

Place the steps of ceramic casting in the correct order.

slip is poured in to a plaster mold plaster absorb water from the slip, causing it to solidify excess slip is pored out of the plaster mold the cast is released from the plaster mold the cast dried completely the cast is glazed and fired

To create her special black ware pottery, the Pueblo potter María Martínez

smothered the first during the firing

European cathedrals built during the 12th and 13th centuries are famous for their ____ glass, an example of which can be seen in this image of the rose window and lancets in France's Chartres Cathedral

stained

Sheets of colored glass joined together with strips of lead is called

stained glass

Taking a block of marble and carving a human figure out of it is considered to be what kind of sculptural process?

subtractive

Any fiber that can be turned into cloth, or the material that results, is called a ___.

textile

Which of the following types of artwork does decorative arts describe?

textiles, ceramics, and metalwork

Which of the following characteristics best describe synthetic resin as a sculptural material?

the appearance of more traditional sculptural material can be easily mimicked a wide range of colored pigments in can be added to incorporate color

Roxy Paine's steel sculpture Conjoined is considered particularly inventive because

the shining metal seems at odds with the animated organic form

The process of putting clay on the spinning disk of a potter's wheel, then shaping it with the hands, is called

throwing

The human form is used in sculpture for the following reasons:

to convey power of rulers to give a being presence

Which statements best describe Ilya and Emilia Kabakov's total installation The Happiest Man?

viewers are completely immersed within the composition the artists provided different points of view from which to consider the content of historical films.

Because ____ is renewable, available, and easily carved, almost all civilizations, old and new, have made objects from it.

wood

Which of the following are examples of direct sculptural methods?

wood carving clay modeling