CH. 12 - Arts of Ritual Daily Life
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