Art Appreciation Test 3

Front 1

3 types of sculpture

Back 1

-Free Standing

- Low Relief

- High Relief

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Free Standing

Back 2

Fully in the round

Front 3

Low Relief

Back 3

Slightly projects from surrounding surface

Hint 3

Coin is an example

Front 4

High Relief

Back 4

More than half of the modeled projects from the surface

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3 basic types of sculpting

Back 5

-Modeling

-Casting

-Carving

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Armiture

Back 6

Rigid inner support

Front 7

Construction vs Assembly

Back 7

Construction: raw materials welded together

Assembly: found objects put together

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Kinetic Sculpture

Back 8

A sculpture that moves

Front 9

Who coined the term mobile?

Back 9

Marcell Vishont

Front 10

Installation

Back 10

3-D medium that transforms a space by bringing in items of symbolic significance

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Firing

Back 11

Process of exposing clay form to heat to make them permanent

Hint 11

Heat

Front 12

Bisque Firing

Back 12

Preliminary firing so glazed can be added

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Glaze

Back 13

Creamy, silica based liquid

Front 14

3 types of clay

Back 14

-Earthenware

-Stoneware

-Porcelain

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Earthenware

Back 15

Red, brown, tan clay fired at low temperatures and is porous after firing

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Stoneware

Back 16

Gray, brown clay fired at high temperatures and is not porous

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Porcelain

Back 17

Rare, expensive; white and translucent after firing to an ever higher temperature than stoneware and is not porous

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Peter Voulkos

Back 18

-Abstract expressionism

-“Gallas Rock”

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Ceramist

Back 19

Process of working with clay and firing

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Harvey Littleton

Back 20

The person most responsible for making glass into an artform

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Dale Chilhuly

Back 21

The student of Littleton; made “Mauve Seaform Set With Black Lip Wraps

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Weaving

Back 22

Based on interlacing of lengthwise fibers (warp) and cross fibers (weft)

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Faith Ringold

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Known for using a combination of fantasy and hard reality in her work; “Mrs Jones and Family” “Tar Beach”

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3 key concerns of architecture

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-Function: how a building is used

-Form: How it looks

-Structure: how it stands

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Dressed

Back 25

Stones cut or shaped before use

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Dry Masonry

Back 26

Piled stones atop one another without masonry

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Post and Beam Construction

Back 27

One of the earliest construction methods and is still the most common used today

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Colonnade

Back 28

Row of columns spanned if connected by beams

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Round Arch

Back 29

Improved limitations of the stone beam

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Barrel Vault

Back 30

When extended in length the round arches creates a tunnel like structure

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Groin Vault

Back 31

Intersecting two barrel vaults

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Arcade

Back 32

A series of arches supported by columns

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Dome

Back 33

Variation of arch and rotated 180 degrees

Hint 33

Goes on cylinder/pendentives

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Gothic Arch

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Pointed Arch

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Buttresses/flying buttresses

Back 35

Stone half arches that counter the outward thrust of the pointed arches

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3 improvements to gothic building

Back 36

-Gothic Arch

-Buttresses

-Flying buttresses

Hint 36

Hell to build higher thinner walls

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Louis Sullivan

Back 37

Built the Wainwright Building

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Le Corbiusier

Back 38

Coined the domino construction system which was an international style of architecture

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Walter Gropius

Back 39

Made “Bauhaus” which is an example of domino construction

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Frank O. Gehry

Back 40

Architecture as a functional sculpture; “Guggenheim Museum Bilbao”

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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Most influential 20th century American architect; developed cantilever

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Cantilever

Back 42

When a slab extends a substantial distance beyond a supporting column or wall