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Chapter 9: Sculpture
Multiple Choice Questions
A pliable material such as clay or wax is shaped into a three-dimensional form in
A. carving B. modeling* C. casting
A liquid material is poured into a mold.
A. casting* B. carving C. construction
The lost-wax technique pertains to
A. carving B. modeling C. casting*
Ready-mades invest the object with a new ____________.
A. burnishing B. idea* C. carved surface
The sculptor cuts away material until the desired form is achieved in
A. carving* B. modeling C. casting
Forms are built from materials such as wood, paper, string, sheet metal, and wire when an artist creates work in the technique called
A. construction* B. casting C. modeling
Michelangelo believed that the ____________ process liberated forms that already existed.
A. carving* B. modeling C. casting
The term used in connection with sculptures that actually move is
A. kinetic* B. optical C. mechanical
Most likely way of handling bronze for sculpture is ____________.
A. carving B. modeling C. casting*
Most likely way of handling turning marble into a piece of sculpture is through the ____________ technique
A. carving* B. construction C. casting
Michael Hayden's Arpeggio is a good example of ____________ sculpture.
A. kinetic B. light* C. styrofoam
The most likely way of using sheet metal in sculpture is in the technique called ____________
A. carving B. construction* C. casting
A last step in the casting process is ____________.
A. gates B. investiture C. burnishing*
Robert Smithson's best-known sculptural material is ____________.
A. stone B. bronze C. earth*
Sherrie Levine's Fountains after Duchamp are a series of urinals in
A. bronze* B. styrofoam C. porcelain
Alexander Calder's mobiles depend on ____________ to "come alive"
A. light B. tossed stones C. moving air*
Segal uses a variation of the casting process to produce sculptures of ____________.
A. birds B. people* C. appropriated statues
Louise Bourgeois's Eyes is made from ____________.
A. marble* B. wood C. bronze
Kagle is marked by ____________.
A. flaws in casting B. a design adapted from ancient Egyptian tomb sculpture C. thrusting and receding planes*
Picasso's Bull's Head is an example of ____________.
A. carving B. assemblage* C. casting
Completion/Fill-in-the-Blank Questions
Sculpture is the art of carving, casting, modeling, or assembling materials into three ____________ figures or forms.
{{dimensional}}
As Degas grew blind, he turned to sculpture so that he could work out anatomical problems through the sense of ____________.
{{touch}}
Kiki Smith said, "The ____________ is our common denominator for our pleasures and our sorrows."
{{body}}
____________ said, "No painter ought to think less of sculpture than of painting and no sculptor less of painting that of sculpture."
{{Michelangelo}}
Paul Gapp of The Chicago Tribune said of the plan for the Vietnam Memorial, "The so-called memorial is bizarre…neither a ____________ nor sculpture."
{{building}}
British sculptor ____________ Hepworth's Two Figures was carved from Elmwood.
{{Barbara}}
____________ are likely to appeal to the human desire to give shape to rude matter on a grand scale.
{{Earthworks}}
Projecting parts of wood sculpture are less likely to break off than would similar projections in stone sculpture because wood has greater ____________ strength.
{{tensile}}
Before firing, clay can be ____________ with substances that provide a glassy monochromatic or polychromatic surface.
{{glazed}}
In George Rickey's Cluster of Four Cubes, the cubes were weighted and ____________ to turn effortlessly in light breezes.
{{balanced}}
As bronze and copper sculptures age, oxidation gives them a ____________
{{patina}}
Janine Antoni's Chocolate Gnaw is made of a carving material called ____________.
{{chocolate}}
Art critic Robert Hughes was talking about ____________ sculpture when he said, "everything that statues had not been: not monolithic, but open, not cast or carved, but assembled from flat planes."
{{constructed}}
____________ is a form of constructed sculpture in which preexisting objects are integrated into combinations that take on a life and meaning of their own.
{{Assemblage}}
Marcel Duchamp declared that found objects, or ready-____________, could be elevated to works of art by pedestals.
{{mades}}
In mixed-____________ works, sculptors use materials and ready-made or found objects that are not normally the elements of art.
{{media}}
Sculptors have always been concerned with the portrayal of movement, but ____________ sculptures actually do move.
{{kinetic}}
Alexander Calder was one of the pioneers of the first form of art that made motion as basic an element as shape or color--the ___________.
{{mobile}}
In ____________ or Land Art large amounts of earth or land are shaped into sculpture.
{{earthworks}}
Silvie Fleury invaded the art world in the 1990s with her series of ____________ bags.
{{shopping}}
Discussion Questions
Describe the role of "negative shapes" in Barbara Hepworth work. Explain, "the voids attain more visual solidity than the outer surfaces?"
Why does Rodin's The Walking Man have the strength of bronze and the fleeting, gestural touch of the sculptor.
How is space used in 1)relief sculpture and 2)freestanding sculpture?
Describe the circumstances under which a backhoe might be used as a sculptor's tool.
Discuss the relationship of sculpture, time, and photography in the work of Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
How is the word liberation appropriately applied to Michelangelo's theory of marble sculpture?
Describe the quite different approaches to clay manipulation as demonstrated in the works of Reuben Nakian and Roberta Laidman.
What is the difference between additive and subtractive techniques in sculpture?
React to the assertion that "there is something uniquely feminine "to commune, to interact, to collaborate with the Vietnam Memorial.
Compare and contrast Rodin's The Walking Man and Gonzalez's Woman Combing Her Hair.
