Exam 2: Form, Volume, Mass, and Texture

Forms that tend to be irregular,and similar to naturally occurring objects,are known as ________ forms.

The ________ texture of Anish Kapoor's sculpture Cloud Gate is appealing for viewers to touch.

The spiraling open volume of Vladimir Tatlin's Monument to the Third International was intended to give the design a feeling of ________.

Sculptors Ralph Helmick and Stuart Schechter experimented with open volume when they created this hanging sculpture,installed in the Evanston Public Library in Illinois.

These four visual elements of art-form,volume,mass,and texture-are present in ________ works of art.

This type of relief,which takes its name from the French word for low,does not imply great depth.

Méret Oppenheim was part of an art movement that rejected rational,conscious thought.Her fur-lined teacup and saucer,Object,conjures an unexpected and illogical sensation for the viewer by using ________ texture.

In the Roettgen Pietà from fourteenth-century Germany,the shrunken,twisted body of Jesus and the oversized,anguished head of Mary are accentuated for expressive effect.This distortion of the human body,________ form that we can all understand,makes the viewer feel uneasy and impresses on us the suffering of mother and son.

In her work Object,a fur-lined teacup and saucer,the Swiss artist Méret Oppenheim employed subversive texture to contradict conscious logical experience.She belonged to the ________ art movement,which drew on ideas and images from dreams and the unconscious mind.

An upright stone that has an incised relief on its surface,such as the Maya sculpture (1.2.7),is known as ________.

The organic form and abstract quality of Lino Tagliapietra's sculpture,Batman,allow it to express the idea of ________.

The artist David Smith created sculptures of geometric forms.In his work Cubi XIX,Smith used the following geometric shapes:

Vladimir Tatlin's Monument to the Third International was intended as a heroic symbol commemorating the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.If it had been built,it would have been much smaller than the Eiffel Tower.

The element of art that defines the amount of space occupied by an object is ________.

This term refers to the substance contained in an object,but it does not necessarily imply weight.

A two-dimensional object is called a shape,and a three-dimensional object is known as a ________.

________ volume is a space that is enclosed by materials that are not entirely solid.

By using ________ texture to contradict previous tactile experience,artists can invite viewers to reconsider the world around them.

Because a form exists in "real" space,we can experience it not only visually,but also through our sense of ________.

To imply greater depth,the sculptor who created the relief carvings on the outside of the Ara Pacis Augustae carved the figures in the ________ more deeply than those that are in the background,in order to make them stand out more.