Exam 2: Form, Volume, Mass, and Texture

A three-dimensional surface that is designed to be viewed from only one direction is known as a ________.

Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao,Spain,and Louise Bourgeois's sculpture Maman exemplify many of the themes of this Chapter.Identify two of the elements or principles discussed in this Chapter that either the architect or sculptor have used in creating their artwork.How have these artistic devices been employed,and what effect do they have on the viewer?

The Italian glass artist Lino Tagliapietra created the work Batman in 1998 to express his feelings about the "reality and fantasy of Batman's world." Discuss what you think Tagliapietra meant and compare it with your own impressions of Batman.

Rachel Whiteread is a British sculptor who fills empty spaces with concrete.For her work House,created in 1993,Whiteread made a concrete cast using an entire house as her mold.What assumptions might a viewer make about mass in the context of Whiteread's work? How does it help us to understand the difference between mass and volume?

Forms such as pyramids,which tend to be precise and regular,are known as ________ forms.

The visual impact of the Olmec sculpture of a colossal head is directly related to its mass.

Marisol's work Father Damien was created to memorialize the heroism of a priest who lost his life helping the victims of leprosy.This sculpture stands in front of the State Capitol Building in the U.S.State of ________.

A sculpture designed in the round can be viewed from ________.

The Roman artist who sculpted Naked Aphrodite Crouching at Her Bath (Lely's Venus)(1.2.8a,1.2.8b)did so in such a way that it invites the viewer to move around the work to see more.Describe the differences in the work from side to side that are evidence of this compositional idea.

The sculpture of the Great Sphinx stands as a symbolic guardian of the pyramids at Giza.The ancient Greek definition of a sphinx was a mythological creature whose features were:

In the Roettgen Pietà from fourteenth-century Germany,the artist ________ the organic forms of the bodies of Mary and Jesus in order to express pain and suffering.

American sculptors Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse created the work In the Blue (Crest)to imply the presence of water.The work's many empty spaces,which were created using irregular horizontal members,are an example of ________ volume.

Because it is three-dimensional,a form has these three spatial measurements: height,width,and ________.

Our experience of objects in the natural world often leads us to assume that a large object will be heavy,but in fact this is not necessarily the case.This element of art is called ________.

When we touch an object we experience a tactile sensation that artists refer to as ________ texture.

The highly polished surface of Anish Kapoor's sculpture Cloud Gate means that the viewer and the city of ________ become a part of the work,in its reflection.

A sculpture that can be viewed from more than one side and that occupies space in the same way as other real-life objects is called a ________ sculpture.

Marisol was commissioned to create a sculpture of the Catholic missionary Father Damien.A stout figure in heavy bronze,the statue possesses a weighty ________ that communicates the strong beliefs and courageous determination of the priest.