chapter 11 & 12

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An example of a low relief sculpture stamped from molds would be _______________

Silver coin with apollo

_______________is any work made for a certain place, which cannot be separated or exhibited apart from its intended environment example:

Site-specific

What is a hominid as seen in Martin Puryear's work titled Hominid? _________________

A pre-human primate, halfway between chimp and person.

What is an Armature? __________________

A rigid framework serving as a supporting inner core for clay or other soft sculpting material.

Logos

An identifying mark, or trademark, based on letterforms combined with pictorial elements.

What culture left behind the ceramic ballplayer as an example of the modeling technique in which we can still see the tool marks and fingerprint impressions on the surface? ________________________

Ancient Maya (Mayans), who lived in what are now parts of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras.

designed by Andrew Jones suggests a flower, whose blue colors refers to the blooms of the scilla plant, found in the northeastern U.S.

Andrew Jones - The Battery Chair

Sculpture made by assembling found or cast-off objects.

Assemblage

____________is the most challenging of the three basic sculptural methods because it is a one-way technique that provides little or no opportunity to correct errors

Carving

Who is the artist who created the poster on the refugee problems that originates from his desire to inform and arouse the public about urgent issues?

Chaz Maviyane-Davies - SEEKING ASYLUM IS A HUMAN RIGHT (

What is the name of the recently created new font by the typographer Jonathan Cuervo Cisneros ?

Febrile

This type of sculpture is meant to be seen from all sides. _______________________

Freestanding

Of all artforms, we encounter most frequently in our daily life?

Graphic design

Who is the artist who created American Alphabet?

Heidi Cody

the most famous of the early poster makers.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

The cast aluminum work Corporate Wars: Wall of Influence by artist Robert Long is an excellent example of a ___________sculpture.

High relief

An example of an interactive design is _____________, an interactive game based on pinball but with an artistic component.

Inks

Many artist now use the three-dimensional medium of _________________________to make their visual statements

Installation

SPANISH ARTIST WELDER

JULIO GON

Voices in the Night

Janet Hansen's - Voices in the Night

Who is the Spanish artist who pioneered the use of the welding torch for cutting and welding metal sculpture_________________.

Julio Gon.

What is the name of the artist who designed a trailer for the video game God of War: Ascension?

Karin Fong

____________ are sculptures that move.

Kinetic sculptures

Grim Boy (2005)

Lara Schnitger

Artist who shops in thrift stores for pieces of old furniture and assembles new objects from them as in Throne for the Greatest Rapper of All Time.

Marc Andre Robinson

The designer who renovated Saks Fifth Avenue's logo in 2007 ?

Micheal Bierut - Saks Fifth Avenue's

What is the term used when artists frequently use a variety of media in a single work? ______________________

Mixed Media

A type of sculpture in which parts move, usually suspended parts activated by air currents.

Mobile

Working pliable material such as clay or wax into three-dimensional forms.

Modeling

________________ is an additive process, in which pliable material such as clay, wax, or plaster is built up, removed, and pushed into a final form.

Modeling

A cavity usually created out of plaster, clay, or plastic for use in casting.

Mold

Olafur Eliasson's stunning site-specific work for the gardens of Versailles outside of Paris. ______________________

Olafur Eliasson - Waterfall

What is the name of the television show that used an advertising poster that was based on a studio photo of the two stars dressed as urban hipsters posing stiffly next to clichés that refer to the northwestern city of Portland?

Portlandia

What does QR code stand for?

Quick Response Code

Rachel Whiteread

Rachel Whiteread - (2007) UNTITLED (HIVE) I

Sculpture in which three-dimensional forms project from the flat background of which they are a part.

Relief

A typeface without a serif.

Sans Serif

What are serifs?

Short lines that end the upper and lower strokes of a letter in some fonts.

What did the Saks Fifth Avenue's Designer (named above) do that designers are supposed to do:

Solve problems and offer solutions at the invitation of a client.

Carving away any unwanted material to form a sculpture is a ________________process.

Subtractive

Militant organization that made many creative (and militant) posters in the 1960's and 1970's for their social cause.

The Black Panther Party

the technique of composing printed material from letterforms (typefaces or fonts).

Typography

____________ is Rachel Whiteread's work mentioned in Chapter 12 that uses new materials such as polyvinyl resin in fascinating cast pieces that turn empty spaces into solid volumes.

Untitled (Hive) I

The work Grim Boy by Lara Schnitger is a mixed media piece made of these materials: __________________.

Various dark-colored fabrics together with beads, fur, and wood.

What does Janet Hansen's cover for Voices in the Night suggest?

a turned-down bedsheet

Sculptural form produced by adding, combining, or building up material from a core or (in some cases) an armature.

additive sculpture

Sculpture in relief in which the subjects emerge only slightly from the surface; no undercutting is present. Also called low relief.

bas relief

A circular, often dome-shaped, decoration that protrudes from a flat surface.

boss

A process that involves pouring liquid material such as molten metal, clay, wax, or plaster into a mold; when the liquid hardens, the mold is removed, and a form in the shape of the mold is left.

casting

Creating a work of sculpture by putting together pieces that are already formed by the artist.

construction

The name given to type in a particular size and weight; today often used interchangeably with typeface to indicate a complete set of letterforms, including all capitals, lower case, numerals, and accent marks in all sizes and weights.

font

An art medium in which the artist arranges objects or artworks in a room, thinking of the entire space as the medium to be manipulated.

installation

A casting method: First a model is made from wax and encased in clay or casting plaster; when the clay is fired to make a mold, the wax melts away, leaving a void that can be filled with molten metal or other self-hardening liquid to produce a cast.

lost wax

Sculpture in relief in which the subjects emerge only slightly from the surface; no undercutting is present. Also called bas relief.

low relief

How old is the concept of the modern poster?

more than 100 years old.

The process of making a work of art by casting, as opposed to additive or subtractive processes

substitution

Sculpture made by removing material from a larger block or form.

subtractive sculpture

The roll of credits at the beginning of a motion picture or television program.

title sequence

Motion graphics as a discipline began with _______________ for Hollywood movies, the roll of credits at the beginning of a film.

title sequences

A complete set of letterforms, including all capitals, lower case, numerals, and accent marks in all sizes and weights; also called a font.

typeface


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