Art Appreciation La Delta: Drawing

Vincent van Gogh. The Fountain in the Hospital Garden. 1889. (pen & ink)

Sculpture

vocabulary: freestanding (in-the-round), low relief (bas-relief), high relief, modeling (manipulative & additive), casting (substitution or replacement process), armature, mold, original work (pattern), lost wax process, carving (subtractive process), assembling (assemblage), construction, mobile, kinetic sculpture, installation; open form, closed form (& all vocabulary from beginning of semester)

Images:
Apollo (Greek coin); Corporate Wars; California Artist; Self-Portrait by Charles Ray; Massive Stone Head (Olmec); Mother & Child (Catlett); Bodhisattva Guanyin; Maturity; The Montserrat; Deborah Butterfield's work; Bull's Head; Untitled by Calder.

TEST #3 (read carefully!) Sculpture, to Bronze Age

TEST #2 is over Drawing, Painting, Printmaking:
La Delta - Test #3 Wednesday, 11/09/11
St. Frederick's High School - Test #3 Thursday, 11/10/11

Questions to consider:
What's the difference between bas-relief and high relief? What are examples?
What are the tradition methods of sculpting?
What is the difference between modeling & casting?
What did Robert Arneson consider all art to be?
Why did Arneson create California Artist?
What are the advantages of casting?
What is another name for casting?
What is a mold? What happens in the lost wax process?
Most monuments in public parks are cast in what?
Polyvinyl resin can be made to resemble what?
Carving is also called what? "Releasing the form from within the block" is said to be what sculptor's process?
What are the basic sculptural methods? What are the characteristics of marble, basalt, walnut, schist, & jade? Who used these? What are examples?
What wood carving problem did the Chinese solve?
What is a found object, a ready-made, & an assemblage? What artist's work is an example of these? What is kinetic sculpture?

What are the differences between Paleolithic & Neolithic art?
Where are the oldest known paintings found? What is a petroglyph? Where did the New Stone Age seem to occur first? What art is characteristic of Paleolithic? What piece of art is an example of this? What does the term civilization refer to? Where were the four fertile river valleys? What are the differences between Mesopotamia & Egypt? Who named the broad plain between the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers? Who developed the world's first writing, the wheel, the plow? What is a ziggurat? What do we know of the Sumerian court life & art by studying the Lyre? What are the scenes on the upper & lower panel believed to be scenes from? The stylized Head of an Akkadian Ruler was influenced by whom? The Great Pyramids were built of stone blocks without what? What Egyptian architect designed the Funerary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut? What is the purpose of the pyramids? What characterizes Egyptian sculpture? Why is Tutankhamen one of the best known Egyptian rulers today? What makes the Mask from Mummy Case of the Tomb of Tutankhamen distinctively Egyptian? How did Egyptian artists portray the body? What is meant by hierarchic scale? What is an example? What art did Egyptian art influence?

Art Appreciation La Delta

Art Appreciation

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Drawing

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