Art & Society

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Carving method

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-is more aggressive than modeling.

- is more direct than casting.

-is a subtractive process.

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Subtractive process includes

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Carving

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High Relief

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Half depth

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Four basic methods for making a sculpture are

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modeling, casting, carving, and assembling

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The additive process of sculpture includes

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modeling and assembling

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Andy Goldsworthy

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Uses natural materials to create ephemeral structures

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Relief sculpture is

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-not meant to be viewed in the round.

-not finished on all sides.

-often used to decorate architecture.

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Clay

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Most popular modelling material

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Ceramic

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Fired clay

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Which of the following concepts conceives of a space and everything in it as a work of art?

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Installation Art

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Lost Wax

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3rd millenium BCE

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Casting

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Indirect process

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Sculptors

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Sketch using clay

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Assemblage

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a process by which individual pieces or segments or objects are brought together to form a sculpture.

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high relief

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projects boldly from the backgroundelements of high relief may be in the round, unattached to the background

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contrappasto

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The Greek contribution to sculptural poses; (meaning counter poise or counterbalance) was developed by Ancient Greeks as a pose for sculptures of the human figure

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Christo and Jeanne-Claude

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-to be temporary and transitory.

-as self-financing works.

-as works that have as the subject matter the entire process of the project.

-to bring together a temporary community of people focused on a particular idea.

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Earthworks

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Serpent Mound and Spiral Jetty

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What separates the art object from the craft object?

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There is no definite line

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The principal ingredient of glass is:

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sand

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Wood is not very durable because:

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a. cold and heat distort it.

b. water rots it.

c. insects can eat it away.

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Colossal Head

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Olmec Rulers

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Although the chemical composition of ________ changes when exposed to extreme heat, ________ doesn't change chemically when its pliability is altered by heat.

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clay; glass

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The most common way to shape a hollow glass vessel is by:

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blowing

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The Arts and Crafts movement came about as a reaction to:

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Industrial Revolution

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Wood is a popular craft material because:

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it is abundant and relatively easy to work

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The ancient Olmecs of Mesoamerica prized ________ for its translucence, which they associated with rainwater.

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jade

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Forging

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is when metal is shaped by hammer blows.

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The chair of Hetepheres:

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was well preserved by Egypt's dry climate.

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The secret of ____________ was discovered and perfected in China, and for hundreds of years potters elsewhere failed to duplicate it

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Porcelain

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Islamic cultures have focused a great deal of aesthetic attention on:

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Carpets and rugs

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Which of the following is made from the sap of a tree?

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Lacquer

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Wainwright Building

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Using a steel fromework with masonary sheathing, the _____, designed by Louis Sullivan, is thought by many to be the first genuinely modern building

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Two factors that decide the success of any structural system are

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weight and tensile strength

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The Byodo-in Temple, in Kyoto, Japan is an elegant example of

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post-and-lintel architecture

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The ability of a material to span horizontal distances with a minimum of support is called

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tensile strength

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Built for the World's Fair in 1889, the _____ was an early experiment in iron construction

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Eiffel Tower

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_____ is most famous for his design of the geodesic dome

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Buckminster Fuller

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The Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian styles are known as the

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Greek orders

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Stacking and piling is another term for

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load-bearing construction

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Fallingwater

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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Builders of Gothic cathedrals reinforced the walls of their architecture from the outside with

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piers and flying buttresses

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The two basic families of structural systems in architecture are

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the shell and the skeleton and skin

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According to the author, a _____ is actually an arch extended in depth, as if there are "many arches placed flush one behind the other

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barrel vault

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Taj Mahal

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tomb for wife

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Skeleton in crystal palace

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Joseph Paxton 1851

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Oculus

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Opening in dome of pantheon

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Arch rotated 360 degrees on its axis is called a

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dome

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A ____ is a horizontal form supported at only one end

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Cantilever