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A support or the framework a modeled sculpture is build around.
What is an armature?
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FALSE. All site-specific art can be temporary due to an established time frame, the effects of the natural environment and/or decisions made by society/artist.
TRUE or FALSE.
Ephemeral Art are the only works of art that can be temporary, all other types of site-specific art cannot. |
Curtain Walls
What is the glass facade that encloses a steel cage in architecture construction?
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FALSE. If a site-specific work is on private property it is not public art. Public art is created for the sole purpose of existing for a shared communal audience; therefore, it must be placed in a public space.
TRUE or FALSE.
All site specific works are public art. |
Mortar
What material is NOT used in dry masonry?
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Known as the "first draft," it is a small scale model of a larger work.
What is the purpose of maquette?
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FALSE - 1960's and 1970's
TRUE or FALSE.
Site-Specific Art is a blanket term that evolved in the 1980's and 1990's, defining art produced for specific locations, as artists preferred to make works that existed beyond the gallery/museum walls and exercising the historical methods |
The Keystone
The final stone that bears all the weight of the arch structure is known as ?
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1. Carving
2. Modeling
What sculpture process is only subtractive? Which sculpture process is additive and subtractive?
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Freestanding is "in the round," a three dimensional work that one can view from all angles - it not attached to a ground. Relief sculpture is a dimensional work that projects from a flat, background support - there is high and low relief.
What is the difference between freestanding and relief sculpture?
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Casting
What sculpture process involves pouring liquid material into a mold?
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1. Visually enhance the surrounding environment.
2. Create beauty. 3. Preserve the memory of a person, place or event (thing).
What purposes do monuments serve?
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Balloon Framing
What type of mechanism developed due to the high demand for housing developments after the war?
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Arches.
All vaults and domes are constructed with the inclusion of what fundamental architectural mechanism?
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Monument.
What type of site-specific work is the Statue of Liberty?
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1. Hardness
2. Grain Pattern 3. Color
Wood inherently has what three (3) properties a sculptor must consider in the execution and final appearance of the sculpture?
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Memorial
A work created for the purpose of commemorating the memory of person, place and/or event is known as a ?
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Groin Vault
What type of vault is produced when two barrel vaults intersect one another at a right angle to one another to create a square covered space?
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Fired; Glazed
In order for clay to be a permanent material, a ceramic, it must be put in a kiln to be ? In order for ceramic to be no longer be porous, it must be ?
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1. Steel is stronger, beams could be made thinner and longer (developed taller buildings - the birth of skyscrapers).
2. Steel is highly resistant to rust and fire 3. Steel's tremendous strength allows for minimal amount of material needed to produce st
Why is Steel Cage architecture superior to Cast-Iron?
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Both use multiple materials combine together to construct a single sculpture.
What are the similarities between Constructured Sculptures and Assemblages?
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Land Art / Environmental Art
What type of site-specific art is the incorporation of the land and use of the area's materials essential to the form and content?
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Cast-Iron
What type of architectural material used prefabricated I-beams that were bolted together on site?
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1. Pointed Arches
2. Flying Buttresses 3. Barrel Vaults
What are the three (3) chief characteristics of the architecture during the Gothic Period?
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Organic Structures/Forms
Reinforced Concrete was the first material to introduce the possibilities of what characteristic into architecture?
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