Which If Any Of These Artworks Are Sculptural Installations

Question: Which media are well suited to each of these common sculptural processes?

Answer: carving: ivory, marble, ebony

Modeling: terra-cotta, wax, Kaolin

Question: Which, if any, of these photographs show examples of ancient or modern earthworks?

Answer: Swirl-modern earthwork

Spider-ancient earthwork

80 Backs-not an earthwork

Green Serpent Mound-ancient earthwork

brick building-not an earthwork

Question: What was the primary sculptural process used to create each of these artworks?

Answer: concrete building-casting

Terra cotta coffin-modeling

standing man-casting

Hawaii god tiki-carving

reclining orange figure-carving

Gallas Rock-modeling

Question: What, if anything, is true of all sculptures?

Answer: They invite us to interact with them

They occupy physical space in our world

Question: What sculptural term is being defined in each of these brief descriptions?

Answer:

Question: Which (if any) of these sculptural works are constructions and which (if any) are assemblages?

Answer: Assemblage:

Bird in box

Wheel on stool

Question: The use of very different methods, materials, and styles—not to mention the manner in which they are reproduced in photographs—often affects how we perceive the massiveness or otherwise of sculptures. Can you place these figures in the correct order by height, from smallest to tallest?

Answer: Lady sitting

Head (brown kinda looks abstract)

Sculpture

Moses

Big Head Tiki (biggest)

Question: Which fundamental sculptural approach was used to create each of these artworks?

Answer: 3 white sculptures are subtractive

2 brown sculptures are additive

Question: What type of stone was used to create each of these sculptures?

Answer: Big Head:Basalt

Sitting Lady:Granite

Lioness: Limestone

Moses: Marble

Question: Because of their powerful physical presence, sculptures have been created throughout history to commemorate the lives of rulers or express their might. But which rulers are associated with these particular sculptures?

Answer: Carving of dying lionness:

King Ashurbanipal

Lion: King Leopold I

Moses: Pope Julius II

Tiki Sculpture:

King Kamehameha I

White Sculpture:

Grand Duke Francesco de’ Medici

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