1 What does the lesson mean by the "sensory interconnections" of sculpture?
Correct. Sculpture engages sight and, at least imaginatively, touch. You sense the marble's smoothness or the bronze's roughness without laying a hand on it.
Think about how a sculpture's material comes across through sight alone. The interconnection is between seeing and imagined touch.
2 Which sculptural technique builds up material, such as clay or wax?
Correct. Modeling adds and shapes material. Carving removes it, casting pours molten metal into a mold, and construction assembles separate pieces.
Carving removes material from a block, and casting pours molten material into a mold. The technique that builds material up is modeling.
3 In high relief, figures
Correct. Sunken relief is carved into a surface, low relief projects slightly, and high relief projects substantially. In all three the sculpture remains attached to a plane.
Relief means the sculpture stays attached to a background. High relief projects the most, so the figures almost detach.
4 Why does freestanding sculpture have no single "correct" viewpoint?
Correct. This is a fundamental difference from painting, which fixes the viewer's position.
Sculpture in the round is made to be walked around. Each angle shows something new, so no single view is the correct one.
5 What is "sensory space" in sculpture?
Correct. A sculpture organizes the space around it. Paying attention to that space is essential to understanding how sculpture works.
The space around a sculpture is not empty. It is shaped by the work's mass and volume, which is why the lesson calls it sensory space.
6 Why has the human body been sculpture's primary subject for thousands of years?
Correct. A tensed muscle or a reaching hand gives an external image for an internal feeling. That is why the body carries so much meaning.
The lesson's argument is about response. We feel our own body in the sculpted one, which is why the body is such a powerful subject.
7 Rodin's The Thinker was originally part of The Gates of Hell. How does knowing this change the content?
Correct. The tension in the shoulders, the hand against the face, and the forward lean express the weight of moral awareness. Context enriches what the form already shows.
The lesson's point is that background knowledge deepens perception. Here it turns generic thinking into a response to suffering.
8 Why does the title of Louise Bourgeois's Maman matter?
Correct. The tension between the threatening scale and the maternal subject matter is where the content lives.
The title is the key to the content. Maman means mother, and the artist connected spiders with her weaving mother.
9 Calder's mobile is described as constructivist sculpture. What does that mean here?
Correct. A mobile challenges the idea that sculpture must be heavy, stable, and permanent: its form is a set of possibilities governed by balance, weight, and chance.
Constructivist sculpture is assembled from separate pieces. Calder's pieces hang and move, so the work is never the same twice.
10 Bernini's Apollo and Daphne shows the instant Daphne begins to turn into a laurel tree. What does the sculpture ask the viewer to do?
Correct. A story that unfolds around the figures cannot be taken in from one position, which is exactly the strength of sculpture in the round.
Think about what sculpture in the round allows. Bernini put different moments of the story on different sides, so you must move.