Sculpture

Question 1

What is a 3D art form that provides an important visual way of understanding form and space?

Answer 1

Sculpture

Question 2

What is the Latin word from which the term “sculpture” originates?

Answer 2

Sculpere

Question 3

What is the art of fashioning figures out of wood, clay, plastics, metal, and stones?

Answer 3

Sculpture

Question 4

What dictates the effect of the composition in sculpture?

Answer 4

The type of material

Question 5

What is a hard and heavy material that allows sculptures to be compactly designed?

Answer 5

Stone

Question 6

What is a malleable material that allows for dynamism in sculptures?

Answer 6

Bronze

Question 7

What sculpture method involves adding material again and again to build up the form?

Answer 7

Additive Process

Question 8

What sculpture method involves the removal of material to create the form?

Answer 8

Subtractive Process

Question 9

What sculpting process has been known since prehistoric times and involves subtracting material until the desired form is reached?

Answer 9

Carving

Question 10

What sculpting process consists of adding soft and easily shaped materials to enable rapid execution?

Answer 10

Modeling

Question 11

What sculpting process involves pouring a liquid material into a mold containing a hollow cavity of the desired shape and allowing it to solidify?

Answer 11

Casting

Question 12

What is the purpose of casting in sculpture?

Answer 12

It is used for making complex shapes.

Question 13

How old is the casting process, and what is the oldest surviving casting?

Answer 13

Casting is a 6,000-year-old process, and the oldest surviving casting is a copper frog from 3,200 BC.

Question 14

What are the two methods employed in casting?

Answer 14

Cire-Perdue and Sand-casting

Question 15

What sculpting method has its origin in collage?

Answer 15

Construction and Assemblage

Question 16

What is a raised form that projects from a surface?

Answer 16

Relief Sculpture

Question 17

What type of relief sculpture has the projecting figure closer to the surface?

Answer 17

Low-relief (Bas-relief or Basso)

Question 18

What type of relief sculpture has figures that may almost be detached from the surface?

Answer 18

High-relief (Haut-relief or Alto)

Question 19

What type of relief sculpture is between low and high relief?

Answer 19

Half-relief (Demi-relief or Mezzo)

Question 20

What is the lowest type of relief sculpture, where the projection barely exceeds the thickness of a sheet of paper?

Answer 20

Crushed relief (Relievo Sticciato)

Question 21

What type of relief sculpture is a relief in reverse, where the carving lies in a hollowed-out area?

Answer 21

Hollow relief (Cavo-relievo)

Question 22

What type of sculpture is freestanding, often placed on a pedestal or base, and made to be seen from multiple angles?

Answer 22

Sculpture in the Round

Question 23

What is a representationalist sculpture that depicts a specific entity?

Answer 23

Statue

Question 24

What type of sculpture represents a person from the chest up?

Answer 24

Bust

Question 25

What type of sculpture typically depicts a significant person on horseback?

Answer 25

Equestrian Statue

Question 26

What type of sculpture is constructed from found objects?

Answer 26

Assemblage

Question 27

What is a milk-white, fine-grained stone used for ornaments and statuary, which is slightly translucent?

Answer 27

Alabaster

Question 28

What is an inert ingredient mixed with cement in making a casting mix?

Answer 28

Aggregate

Question 29

What term refers to any component of a building that has been modeled?

Answer 29

Architectural

Question 30

What is a framework of metal wire or tubing used in fashioning a work in clay, wax, or plaster?

Answer 30

Armature

Question 31

What is another term for the base where a sculpture is mounted?

Answer 31

Plinth

Question 32

What is the Italian term for a small terracotta sketch of a sculpture?

Answer 32

Bozzetto

Question 33

What is a design carved in relief in stone or shell?

Answer 33

Cameo

Question 34

What is a metal or plaster poured into a mold and left to harden to produce a work of art?

Answer 34

Cast

Question 35

What is a mechanical process of finishing a metal surface?

Answer 35

Chasing

Question 36

What is the modern method of casting sculptures in which the casting material is a resin mixed with powdered bronze?

Answer 36

Cold Cast Bronze

Question 37

What term refers to a sculpture larger than heroic in size, meaning huge?

Answer 37

Colossal

Question 38

What is the French term for a less planned approach to carving in sculpture, where the sculptor works from memory?

Answer 38

Direct Carving (Taille Directe)

Question 39

What is a dark-colored, hard stone used in Egyptian sculpture?

Answer 39

Diorite

Question 40

What term refers to a sculpture that can be realistic in varying degrees or stylized?

Answer 40

Figurative

Question 41

What is a small molded statuette?

Answer 41

Figure

Question 42

What term refers to a sculpture that is larger than life-size?

Answer 42

Heroic

Question 43

What is an incised relief in which the design is sunk below the surface?

Answer 43

Intaglio

Question 44

What is a small-scale model for a finished sculpture?

Answer 44

Maquette

Question 45

What is an oil-based clay used for modeling sculptures?

Answer 45

Plasticene

Question 46

What is a copy of a sculpture cast in plaster, capable of accurately reproducing the details of the original sculpture?

Answer 46

Plaster Cast