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Statues and Sculptures

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  1. The words used to describe Alexander Calder's moving and stationary works are this and this respectively.

    Mobiles (coined by Duchamp) and Stabiles (coined by Jean Arp)

  2. The name of this mythic figure is usually given to most pre-historic sculptures/statues that resemble the feminine form.

    Venus

  3. The Bird Girl, a sculpture of a young girl holding two bowls achieved fame after being featured on the cover of this book set in Savannah, Georgia.

    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

  4. The latest entry in the list of tallest statues is of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel inaugurated in 2018 and is titled this, for what he is best remembered for in India.

    Statue of Unity

  5. This artist whose The Mares of Diomedes was the the first piece of American sculpture bought for the Met is better known for his association with four very large busts!

    Gutzon Borglum (Mount Rushmore)

  6. Constantin Brâncuși who is recognized for creating Sleeping Muse, The Kiss, and The Endless Column is also known for having this work of his classified not as art but as industrial material by U.S. Customs.

    Bird in Space

  7. One of the greatest and most recognized Greek sculptures is Laocoön and His Sons that depicts a serpent devouring a priest and his two sons - a myth goes that he was subject to the punishment for attempting to reveal the secret of this object.

    Trojan Horse

  8. This Swiss artist is known for his long and thin figures and his works L'Homme au doigt and L'Homme qui marche I are among the most expensive sculptures ever sold.

    Alberto Giacometti

  9. American sculptor known for his minimalist art using sheet metal. One of his works Tilted Arc, a 3.5 m rusting steel piece was forcibly removed causing him to say "To remove the work is to destroy it."

    Richard Serra

  10. This famous headless statue called the "greatest masterpiece of Hellenistic sculpture" welcomes visitors from the Daru staircase in Louvre.

    Winged Victory of Samothrace (or) Nike of Samothrace

  11. The bronze statue of David by this 15th century Renaissance artist was the first known free-standing nude statue produced since ancient times.

    Donatello

  12. Salvador Dalí created several works of surrealistic art including a special telephone in which this creature substitutes for a handle.

    Lobster (Lobster Telephone)

  13. In Rodin's The Walking Man, called as his most incomplete figure, these body parts are missing.

    Head and arms

  14. A myth spread by the Greeks and the Romans says that this statue was burnt by Druids as a sacrifice; in modern times, it was the focus of a cult British horror film remade in Hollywood with Nicholas Cage in it.

    Wicker man

  15. Hermes and the Infant Dionysus is one of the works attributed to this ancient Greek who is said to have pioneered sculpting nude female form.

    Praxiteles

  16. The 1881 sculpture Little Dancer of Fourteen Years was created by this artist best-known for painting ballet scenes.

    Edgar Degas

  17. Sculptor of Venezuelan heritage who is known for her distinctive box-faces.

    Marisol Escobar

  18. The Dinner Party and The Holocaust Project are the noted works of this American sculptor who took the name of her city.

    Judy Chicago

  19. As of 2020, most of the 10-tallest statues in the world depict this person.

    Buddha

  20. Grinling Gibbons whose work can be seen in St. Paul's Cathedral and Hampton Court Palace specialized in this material.

    Wood

  21. The famous Terracotta Army found in Xian, China was created to protect this first Emperor of China in his afterlife.

    Qin Shi Huang

  22. Mannerism artist Cellini's best-known work is a masterpiece that features an episode from Greek myth and depicts these two persons, one holding the head of the other.

    Perseus and Medusa (Perseus with the Head of Medusa)

  23. Best-known art piece of sculptor Jacob Epstein straight out of a construction site; it has been compared to battle droids of the Star Wars franchise.

    Rock Drill

  24. The Calendar Stone or the Sun Stone which shows the solar deity Tonatiuh holding human hearts is one of the best known artifacts of this civilization.

    Aztec

  25. Artist Nathan Sawaya whose work is featured in the exhibition with the title "THE ART OF THE BRICK" works with this material.

    LEGO blocks

  26. When you think of sculptures of reclining forms that represent human bodies, this British artist who lived in Perry Green, Hertfordshire should immediately come to mind.

    Henry Moore

  27. Patience and Fortitude are the marble lions that stand at the entrance of this New York city landmark.

    New York Public Library

  28. French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon specialized in this type of representation of human likeliness.

    Busts

  29. Donatello's 1450 statue of the Italian mercenary Gattamaleta in Padua has the subject on this.

    Horse

  30. The tallest statue of a woman is this monumental artifact that commemorates a bitter conflict of the 20th century.

    The Motherland Calls in Volgograd, Russia.

  31. The name of Phidias is always mentioned in any list of the greatest ancient Greek sculptors. One of his creations is this work in the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

    Statue of Zeus at Olympia

  32. Designed by Edvard Eriksen, it is only 1.25 meters high and sits on a rock and also attracts pranksters. What is it?

    The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen

  33. American sculptors Duane Henson and George Segal are associated with this movement.

    Pop Art

  34. American artist who specialized in scenes of the west - along with his paintings, he is also known for the sculptures Bronco Buster and Coming Through the Rye.

    Frederic Remington

  35. Site of the best known work of Daniel Chester French.

    Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.)

  36. The centerpiece of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden is a object designed by Claes Oldenburg that shows this red object in a gigantic spoon.

    Cherry (Spoonbridge and Cherry)

  37. The statue of Merlion, traditionally a creature with a lion head and a fish body, represents this tiny and prosperous country and is one of its tourist attractions.

    Singapore

  38. One of the legends behind this whimsical statue installed in the 17th century is that it commemorates an incident in which an army was defeated by urination!

    Manneken Pis in Brussels

  39. This famous work which some say is a depiction of Dante began its life in 1880 as an adornment for a doorway surround called The Gates of Hell.

    The Thinker by Rodin

  40. Swiss sculptor known for his sculptural machines - among his self-destructing sculptors are Homage to New York and Study for an End of the World No. 2.

    Jean Tinguely

  41. Name the mountain on which the Christ the Redeemer statue stands in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

    Corcovado

  42. The famous armless Venus statue, one of the most recognized works of Greek sculpture, was discovered in 1820 on this island.

    Milos (hence Venus de Milo)

  43. 887 of these monoliths exist in a remote location of which the tallest is called Paro. What are we talking about?

    Moai of Easter Island

  44. The moment of passion of Francesca da Rimini who fell in love with her husband's brother Paolo is immortalized in the world of sculpture as this artwork.

    The Kiss by Rodin

  45. Best known as the creator of the bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery which were called the "Gates of Paradise" by Michelangelo.

    Lorenzo Ghiberti

  46. William Rush is called the father of American sculpture and one of his best known works is a life-sized sculpture of this rather important man that had a long display period in Independence Hall, Philadelphia.

    George Washington

  47. Michelangelo's masterpiece Moses complete with horns was part of this larger ensemble.

    Tomb of Pope Julius II

  48. Evocative name of the contemporary sculpture created by Antony Gormley in Gateshead, England that has a 20 metres tall figure seemingly spreading wings.

    Angel of the North

  49. Discobolus depicting a man about to throw a discus is a noted action figure from the ancient Greeks that saw multiple adaptations but the original is usually attributed to this sculptor.

    Myron

  50. Don Gummer is a sculptor who specialized in several materials. He is however likely better known because of this relationship.

    He is the husband of Meryl Streep

  51. Frédéric Bartholdi, familiar to millions as the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty also created a huge sculpture of this animal in Belfort, France symbolizing French resistance of Prussia.

    Lion (Lion of Belfort)