Vocab
What term means three-dimensional form suggesting bulk, weight, and density?
What is mass?
What sculpture term means sculpture with a background plane from which the projects are relatively small?
What is low-relief sculpture?
What are the five main categories of sculpture?
What is space, protest against technology, accommodation with technology, machine, and earth sculpture?
What terms means touch sensations, both inward and outward?
What is tactile?
What sculpture term means sculpture with a background plane from which the projections are relatively large?
What is high-relief sculpture?
What is often the primary subject matter of most abstract sculptors?
What is the density of sense?
What term is the technique of building up a sculpture piece by piece with some malleable material?
What is modeling?
Identify each:
a. Sculpture that makes the earth the medium, site and subject matter.
b. Sculpture that emphasizes spatial relationships and thus tends to de-emphasize the density of its materials.
a. What is earth sculpture?
b. What is space sculpture?
What distinguishes architecture from sculpture?
What is architecture is the art of separating inner from outer space so that the inner space can be used for practical purposes, while sculpture does not provide usable inner space?
What term means the technique of sculpture such as welding, whereby preformed pieces are attached?
What is assemblage?
What is the sculpture freed from any background plane?
Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial is an example of what sculpture:
a. environmental sculpture
b. public sculpture
c. earth sculpture
d. sculpture in the round
What is b. public sculpture?
Answer both:
a. What term means shaping by cutting, chipping, hewing, etc.?
b. What term means the process of making a sculpture or other object by pouring liquid material into a mold and allowing it to harden?
a. What is carving?
b. What is casting?
What term means sculptures made by carving grooves of various depths into the surface planes of the sculptural material, the surface plane remaining perceptually distinct?
What is sunken-relief sculpture?
What does Ms. Catoe want you to know that is an example of "truth to materials" in sculpture?
a. a realistic shape that replicates some false or ficitious reality.
b. a stone carving that lacks depths.
c. a wood carving shaped to reveal the grain of the wood.
d. an abstract shape with no clearly identifiable subject.
What is c. a wood carving shaped to reveal the grain of the wood?