1.2 Q's

The highly polished surface of Anish Kapoor's sculpture Cloud Gatemeans that the viewer and the city of ________ become a part of the work, in its reflection.

Chicago

This American architect designed the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain with an emphasis on the variety of forms and tactile surfaces. Who was this architect?

Frank Gehry

31.Louise Bourgeois is an American sculptor who created a work that stands outside the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. What is the title of this spider-shaped sculpture?

Maman

The sculpture of the Great Sphinx stands as a symbolic guardian of the pyramids at Giza. The ancient Greek definition of a sphinx was a mythological creature whose features were:

a.the body of a lion, the wings of an eagle, and the head of a woman

When we touch an object we experience a tactile sensation that artists refer to as ________ texture.

actual

________ volume is a space that is enclosed by materials that are not entirely solid.

an open

This type of relief, which takes its name from the French word for low, does not imply great depth.

bas relief

The American sculptor David Smith created sculptures of geometric forms. In his work Cubi XIX, Smith used the following geometric shape:

cuboids

In the Roettgen Pietàfrom fourteenth-century Germany, the artist ________ the organic forms of the bodies of Mary and Jesus in order to express pain and suffering.

distorted

23.The spiraling open volume of Vladimir Tatlin's Monument to the Third Internationalwas intended to give the design a feeling of ________.

dynamism

To imply greater depth, the sculptor who created the relief carvings on the outside of the Ara Pacis Augustae carved the figures in the ________ more deeply than those that are in the background, in order to make them stand out more.

foreground

A two-dimensional object is called a shape, and a three-dimensional object is known as a ________.

form

A sculpture that can be viewed from more than one side and that occupies space in the same way as other real-life objects is called a ________ sculpture.

free standing

The organic form and abstract quality of Lino Tagliapietra's sculpture, Batman, allow it to express the idea of ________.

freedom and life

.Sculptors Ralph Helmick and Stuart Schechter experimented with open volume when they created this hanging sculpture, installed in the Evanston Public Library in Illinois.

ghostwriter

Marisol's work Father Damienwas created to memorialize the heroism of a priest who lost his life helping the victims of leprosy. This sculpture stands in front of the State Capitol Building in the U.S. State of ________.

hawaii

.Marisol was commissioned to create a sculpture of the Catholic missionary Father Damien. A stout figure in heavy bronze, the statue possesses a weighty ________ that communicates the strong beliefs and courageous determination of the priest.

mass

Our experience of objects in the natural world often leads us to assume that a large object will be heavy, but in fact this is not necessarily the case. This element of art is called ________.

mass

This term refers to the substance contained in an object, but it does not necessarily imply weight.

mass

American sculptors Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse created the work In the Blue (Crest)to imply the presence of water. The work's many empty spaces, which were created using irregular horizontal members, are an example of ________ volume.

open

The ________ texture of Anish Kapoor's sculpture Cloud Gate is appealing for viewers to touch.

smooth

An upright stone that has an incised relief on its surface, such as the Maya sculpture (1.2.7), is known as ________.

stela

By using ________ texture to contradict previous tactile experience, artists can invite viewers to reconsider the world around them.

subversive

Méret Oppenheim was part of an art movement that rejected rational, conscious thought. Her fur-lined teacup and saucer, Object, conjures an unexpected and illogical sensation for the viewer by using ________ texture.

subversive

In her work Object, a fur-lined teacup and saucer, the Swiss artist Méret Oppenheim employed subversive texture to contradict conscious logical experience. She belonged to the ________ art movement, which drew on ideas and images from dreams and the unconscious mind.

surrealist

Two nineteenth-century French sculptors, Auguste Rodin and Constantin Brancusi, created stone works that expressed the same theme, but through different uses of the element mass. What was the title that both artists used to describe their work?

the kiss

The element of art that defines the amount of space occupied by an object is ________.

volume