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This process involves taking over a pre-existing image or object and altering its appearance in a way that changes its original meaning or purpose.


A) appropriation
B) pre-selection
C) felting
D) repoussé
E) exchanging

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This African-American artist created the work The Liberation of Aunt Jemima (2.4.18) from an assemblage of found objects.


A) Betye Saar
B) Kara Walker
C) Edmonia Lewis
D) Faith Ringgold
E) Elizabeth Catlett

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Michelangelo believed ________ to be the finest and most challenging of all the visual arts.


A) sculpture
B) painting
C) drawing
D) digital art
E) architecture

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Identify the medium or process used to create each artwork: -Damien Hirst,The Physical Impossibility [. . .]


A) construction
B) casting
C) earthworks
D) carving
E) kinetic

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If the intention of Giambologna's Rape of a Sabine was to show off Florentine political might,then a large-scale sculpture in the round was a good choice as it can be displayed to many people.

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Over time,exposure to the elements can add this surface coloration to metals.It can also be created with the use of chemical preparations.


A) patina
B) glaze
C) flashing
D) shingling
E) repoussé

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Sculptures created using this method often require the movement of large amounts of soil from one location to another.


A) earthworks
B) casting
C) constructing
D) chiseling
E) readymades

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Which of these is not an additive process of sculpting?


A) chiseling
B) casting
C) modeling
D) constructing
E) earthworks

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The name of this bronze-casting process relies on a modeled original form made from a pliable material.This method is known as ________.


A) lost-wax casting
B) clay bonding
C) gum molding
D) cotton stretching
E) gobbing

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When a sculpture is designed to be viewed from one side,and protrudes dynamically from its background plane or is carved with deeply incised marks,this is called ________.


A) high relief
B) bas-relief
C) in the round
D) freestanding
E) placid design

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Which of these materials can be used to create a sculpture?


A) wax
B) stone
C) plastic
D) ice
E) all of the other answers

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What method of sculpture is the artist using when they assemble component parts in order to create an artwork?


A) construction
B) casting
C) carving
D) bending
E) repoussé

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An artist cannot turn a trash can into a readymade artwork.

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When an artist is using the subtractive method of carving in stone,it makes no difference whether or not the intended final shape extends beyond the dimensions of the original stone.

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A sculpture intended by the artist to move is called ________ sculpture.


A) a kinetic
B) an armature
C) a swivel
D) a fluted
E) a motion-detector

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The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living,by Damien Hirst,is an example of the broad range of materials that can be used in a work of art.It presents a ________ suspended in a tank of formaldehyde.


A) shark
B) lamb
C) pine tree
D) buffalo
E) sword

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What term does Antony Gormley use for the figures in his works,such as the small three-dimensional human models in his installation Asian Field?


A) humanotypes
B) corpographs
C) personifications
D) portraits
E) none of the other answers

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This nineteenth-century British sculptor,who created the Memorial to King Leopold of the Belgians in a church in Esher,England,was a favorite sculptor to the British royal family.


A) Susan Durant
B) Giambologna
C) Michelangelo
D) Naum Gabo
E) Antony Gormley

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This sculpting process involves adding a liquid or pliable material to a mold.


A) casting
B) chiseling
C) constructing
D) earthworks
E) readymades

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Unlike freestanding sculpture,this type of sculpture is created to be viewed from one side only.


A) relief
B) in the round
C) dynamic presence
D) modeling
E) oast

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