CH. 12 - Arts of Ritual Daily Life

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European cathedrals

- built during the 12th and 13th centuries - famous for their stained glass - Ex. the image of the rose window and lancets in France's Chartres Cathedral

Which of the following are considered to be vegetable fibers?

- flax - cotton - raffia

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

- his ovesaw a workshop and dozens of apprentices - he was the royal sculptor to the king of Ise

Porcelain

A hard white translucent ceramic made of white clay

The ivory vessel from Sierra Leone combines _________ and ________ forms and imagery.

African, European

Jade is known for which of the following properties?

Extreme hardness

True or False: All cultures make finite distinctions made between art and craft.

False

True or False: 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

The most prominent advocate for the Arts and Crafts movement was

Gustav Stickley

Which of the following was an innovation in the ancient Egyptian Chair of Hetepheres?

It was portable with a high back and armrests.

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

Textiles, ceramics, and metalwork

According to Gustav Stickley in industrial design, the role of an ______ is to design an object that can be made by industrial methods.

artist

To shape a hollow glass vessel, an artist can dip a long metal tube into molten glass then,

blow air into the tube to create a bubble in the glass

The Rhyton Lion's Head produced in Greece during the 16th century BC is made from gold which is a metal that

can be worked at room temperature

When _______ has first been shaped, then dried, and finally fired, it is most permanent.

clay

The grouping of particular arts under the heading fine arts is not natural but ________.

cultural

Pomegranate juice was held in this ancient Egyptian glass vessel because

glass was a luxury item and pomegranate juice was symbolically important

India has banned the ______ trade because of their 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

When glass is heated, it becomes _______, or melted.

molten

The nonporous, glass-like surface on ceramic is created by firing the glazing made of

powered minerals and water

Lacquer is made from tree ____.

sap

To create her special blackware pottery, the Pueblo potter Maria Martinez

smothered the fire during the firing

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

textile

Why do historians believe that this example of 1t century Indian earrings were a royal commission?

the leaf motif and winged lion were royal emblems

Throwing

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

Jade, ivory, and lacquer were prized by numerous cultures largely because of

their rarity

The fastest method of creating a hollow, rounded form in clay is

with a potter's wheel


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