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Example Question #41 : Renaissance To Contemporary Sculpture
Dan Flavin was well-known for his art composed of what commonplace objects?
Vacuums
Fluorescent light tubes
Trash
Telephones
Urinals
Fluorescent light tubes
Dan Flavin's fluorescent light tube sculptures used the objects' eerie glow to give the area around them an unusual energy. Marcel Duchamp is famous for his urinal readymade "Fountain," while Jeff Koons employed vacuums in his early work. Dali created a Lobster Telephone, and trash art is a genre unto itself.
Example Question #41 : Renaissance To Contemporary Sculpture
Kara Walker's 2014 "A Subtlety" was a sugar sculpture depicting a woman in the pose of what creature?
Centaur
Dragon
Unicorn
Mermaid
Sphinx
Sphinx
"A Subtlety" was housed in an old sugar plant and depicted a slave woman naked except for a headscarf in the pose of a Sphinx. The sculpture fused ancient art with the abuses of American slavery in a massive sculpture.
Example Question #144 : Sculpture
______________ is the Pop Artist best known for "Pop Sculpture."
Andy Warhol
Claes Oldenburg
Roy Lichtenstein
James Rosenquist
Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg is best known for Pop Art sculptures of everyday objects and more specifically his "soft sculptures". His soft sculptures consisted of creating large, everyday objects so they collapse like a deflating balloon.
Example Question #42 : Renaissance To Contemporary Sculpture
Michelangelo’s sculpture, David, was constructed under the patronage of __________.
the Papacy
the King of Sicily
the Duomo of Florence
the King of France
the Duomo of Florence
The Italian Renaissance began in the city-states of Northern Italy, which were ruled over by no king, as a larger project of enhancing their authority. The David was made by Michelangelo to fulfill a contract with the Overseers of the Office of Works of the Duomo, which was the cathedral of Florence. The David's subtle turn, wary glare, and perfect form helped the stature to become a symbol for Florence.
Example Question #43 : Renaissance To Contemporary Sculpture
Which of the following elements was NOT a key feature of Marcel Duchamp's sculptural works?
Found objects
Classical themes
Easy replicability
Everyday subjects
Classical themes
Beginning in 1914 and continuing until his death in 1968, the French artist Marcel Duchamp created sculptures he termed "readymades." Duchamp took essentially everyday objects and mounted them as sculptural pieces in galleries. The pieces grew to be less found objects and more objects built to look like common items, often presented with absurd or humorous titles.
Example Question #44 : Renaissance To Contemporary Sculpture
How long had Christo and Jeanne-Claude been working to get The Gates approved to be installed, and how long was it installed for?
35 years, and 10 days
26 years, and 2 weeks
20 years, and 1 month
5 weeks, and 3 months
1 day, and 50 weeks
26 years, and 2 weeks
Christo and Jeanne-Claude had proposed the idea for The Gates and submitted proposals as early as 1976. The idea was eventually approved by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who was a collector of their artwork, and the installation was put up in Central Park for 2 weeks.
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Example Question #45 : Renaissance To Contemporary Sculpture
Which of the following is NOT true of The Gates?
The installation was entirely funded by the City of New York
The Gates was constructed from vinyl frames and rectilinear pieces of fabric
The gates were saffron colored to allude to a "golden ceiling creating warm shadows"
The installation art piece was meant to interact with nature rather than interfere with it
There was no specific start or end point to the installation, meaning to be designed for the person in motion
The installation was entirely funded by the City of New York
The Gates was entirely funded by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. While the City of New York supported it, the project was privately funded rather than publicly.
Image accessed through Wikipedia Media Commons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gates#/media/File:Gates_a.jpg
Example Question #46 : Renaissance To Contemporary Sculpture
What post-modern artist is famous for kitschy sculptures such as Michael Jackson and Bubbles?
Jasper Johns
Roy Lichtenstein
David Hockney
Jeff Koons
Marcel Duchamp
Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons is most closely associated with kitsch objects that collapse the distance between high art and "low" pop culture. Duchamp was an early influence on Koons' generation, while the rest are peers who work in other areas of pop art and post-modernism.
Example Question #47 : Renaissance To Contemporary Sculpture
What sculptor's work, one of his "Bird in Space" series, was taxed by custom officials when the artist arrived in New York due to its unconventional appearance, provoking an uproar in the modern art community?
Kurt Schwitters
Marcel Duchamp
Auguste Rodin
Alberto Giacometti
Constantin Brancusi
Constantin Brancusi
Though all of the artists are known for unconventional 20th century sculptures that pushed the boundaries of what sculpture should look like, it was Brancusi's that so confounded customs officials. One of the officials reportedly said "If that's art...I'm a bricklayer."
Example Question #1 : Sculpture Beyond European Artistic Traditions
In the African sculptural tradition, what is the purpose of scarification?
Purely decorative in nature
As a religious symbol
Mimics the African tribes' system of identification
A means to tell stories
Mimics the African tribes' system of identification
Scarification refers to the process of scarring the skin in patterns by cutting it with a knife. After the cut heals, a raised image is created, and these images are painted. In African sculpture, scarification appears on figures to imitate the system used to differentiate between different tribes.
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