What's that medium?
Category of art objects made of clay heated to high temperatures to harden
What is ceramic?
A vertical architectural element with a base at the bottom and capital at the top
What is a column?
Cutting into the surface of something
What is incising or engraving?
It's all one stone!
What is a monolith?
What is iconicity?
Artwork made on the surface of live stone
What is rock art?
Wood, brick, stone, and steel are all examples of this kind of architectural material
What is structural material?
This technique with two tools helps artists create pottery without a wheel
What is paddle and anvil?
When the proportions, shapes, and colors are similar to how they appear in nature
What is naturalism?
When there's some of that sweet, sweet, radioactive material, you can do this procedure
What is uranium dating?
It's sometimes made from big, big teeth
What is ivory/bone sculpture
Not for playing games, but for lining up a bunch of arches
What is an arcade?
This gives Lapita pottery its distinctive "dotted line" form
What is dentate stamping?
Ancient Greek sculptures look white today, but once upon a time they were this
Maybe not reduce, but this term is definitely a bit of reuse & recycle
What is spolia?
You can walk all the way around an Olmec colossal head because it's this kind of sculpture
The gate to the New Temple at Chavin de Huantar is an example of this kind of architectural technique
What is post and lintel?
Taking away material to reveal a form
What is direct carving or subtractive sculpture?
She's tall, he's small, and she's the most important!
What is hierarchical scale
How you know your mom's your mom and who you can marry
What are kinship structures?
The metopes on the Parthenon have lost their heads because they are this kind of sculpture
What is high relief?
These allow you to move from one space to another
What are portals?
To use this technique, you work from the back of your piece of material
What is repousse?
A human with a wolf head? I can't believe it, but it must be one of these!
What is a therianthrope?
Eeek! That was scary! Good thing I've got a head of Medusa on my shield to scare things away, because it has this characteristic
What is apotropaic?