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What is a sculpture?
A three-dimensional form constructed to represent a natural or imaginary shape.
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What is bronze?
An alloy consisting of copper and tin, containing sometimes small quantities of other elements.
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What is Venus de Milo?
An ancient Greek statue and one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture. It has no arms.
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What is color?
Produced when light, striking an object, is reflected back to the eye.
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Who is Michelangelo?
An Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence.
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What is sculptor?
An artist who makes sculptures.
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What is clay?
A stiff, sticky fine-grained earth, typically yellow, red, or bluish-gray in color.
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What is The Thinker?
A bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin. A male figure of heroic size sitting on a rock resting on his chin on one hand.
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What is shape?
An enclosed space, a bounded two-dimensional form that has both length and width.
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Who is Gianlorenzo Bernini?
An Italian sculptor and architect. Credited with creating the Baroque style of sculpture.
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What is figurative?
An art describes artwork which portrays mainly the human or animal figure.
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What is wax?
A sticky yellowish moldable substance secreted by honeybees as the material of honeycomb.
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What is David of Michelangelo?
Ac Renaissance sculpture, created in marble between 1501 and 1504 by the Italian artist Michelangelo.
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What is value?
How light or dark a given color or hue can be.
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Who is Auguste Rodin?
A French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture.
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What is maquette?
A small, preliminary model of a work of sculpture created by the artist in a quick and approximate fashion.
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What is wire?
A metal drawn out into the form of a thin flexible thread or rod.
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What is The Statue of Liberty?
A sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor within New York City, in the United States.
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What is texture?
The feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface or substance.
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Who is Constantin Brancusi?
A Romanian sculptor, painter and photographer who made his career in France. Considered a pioneer of modernism.
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What is relief?
A bas-relief is a sculpture cut into a flat surface and slightly sticking out.
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What is plaster?
A soft mixture of lime with sand or cement and water for spreading on walls, ceilings, or other structures to form a smooth hard surface when dried.
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What is Could Gate (AKA the Bean)?
A public sculpture that is the centerpiece of AT&T Plaza at Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois.
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What is form?
An artist's way of using elements of art, principles of design, and media.
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What is Henry Moore?
An English artist. Best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art.
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