QUIZ: Sculpture and Crafts as art

This American artist uses glass to create dramatic and colorful interior installations, such as the one at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas.

Dale Chihuly

A sculpture intended by the artist to move is called ________ sculpture.

A kinetic

A piece thrown pottery is created using this potter's tool.

A wheel

Which of these materials can be used to create a sculpture?

All of the answers (wax, stone, plastic, ice)

Which of the following is not used in works of fiber art?

Aluminum

Artists who model forms using soft, pliable materials, such as clay or wax, sometimes employ this kind of support when creating their work.

An armature

The sculptural process in which the artist carves only in shallow depth is called ________.

Bas-relief

Ancient Greek sculptors sometimes created cast sculptures from ________, an alloy of copper and tin.

Bronze

This sculpting process involves adding a liquid or pliable material to a mold.

Casting

Which of these is not a subtractive method of sculpting?

Casting

Which of these is not an additive process of sculpting?

Chiseling

The process of rolling out clay into long rope-like strands has been used to make fine ceramic objects since prehistoric times. This is called the ________ method.

Coil

An artist cannot turn a trash can into a readymade artwork.

False

The only way an artist can work with metal is to heat it to a liquid state.

False

Another name for freestanding sculpture is ________.

In the round

Our word ceramic comes from this Greek word.

Keramos

The name of this bronze-casting process relies on a modeled original form made from a pliable material. This method is known as ________.

Lost-wax casting

Unlike freestanding sculpture, this type of sculpture is created to be viewed from one side only.

Relief

The division between art and craft began during this period.

Renaissance

This American artist created a large earthwork titled Spiral Jetty in the Great Salt Lake in Utah in 1969-70.

Robert Smithson

The process of glassblowing was perfected in this culture.

Rome

Michelangelo believed ________ to be the finest and most challenging of all the visual arts.

Sculpture

This method of clay production is based on the creation of flat sheets of wet clay.

Slab

The art of arranging colored glass into mosaic-like window forms is called ________.

Stained glass

All sculptures have this characteristic in common:

they exist in three-dimensional space