Materials in Art: Portraits and Sculptures

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Match the artist with their unconventional material for creating art:

Caroline Brooks = Butter Erika Iris Simmons = Cassette tapes Dominique Blain = Army boots Scholar from New Zealand = Pizza dough

Match the artwork with its unique medium:

Missa by Dominique Blain = Assemblage of army boots Scholar from New Zealand's work = Painting on pizza dough 35,000 year-old illustration in Maros-Pangkep caves = Ancient cave art Charles Darwin's sketches of finches = Artistic works

Match the location with the ancient artwork found there:

Maros-Pangkep caves of Indonesia = 35,000 year-old babirusa illustration Galapagos Islands = Charles Darwin's sketches of finches Cave walls = Location where the scholar from New Zealand might have painted

Match the concept with the debate it raises:

Recreating earliest cave art = Were early cave dwellers artists? Drawing vs. Doodling = Is there a difference? Surviving sketches of finches by Charles Darwin = Are they works of art? Use of unique materials in portraits = Does it rely on novelty or skill?

Match the historical sites with the countries where duplicate versions were built:

Machu Picchu = Peru Lascaux Caves = France Egyptian pyramid = Detroit Eiffel Tower = China

Match the following acronyms with their respective meanings:

VR = Virtual Reality AI = Artificial Intelligence DNA = Deoxyribonucleic Acid NASA = National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Match the artist with their work featuring VR integration:

Rachel Rossin = I Came and Went as a Ghost Hand (2016) Laurie Anderson & Hsin-Chien Huang = La Camera Insabbiata (2017) Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid = Judith on the Red Square Phillipe Maindron = Eiffela

Match the museum with the VR interpretation of past works:

London Tate Museum = The Ochre Atelier National Museum of Finland = The Opening of the Diet 1863 Guggenheim Museum Bilbao = The Persistence of Memory Louvre Museum = Mona Lisa in VR

Match the artist with their reinterpretation of a historical moment:

Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid = Judith on the Red Square Rachel Rossin = I Came and Went as a Ghost Hand (2016) Laurie Anderson & Hsin-Chien Huang = La Camera Insabbiata (2017) The Soviet artists-in-exile in the 1980s = Head of Josef Stalin perched on a woman's hand

Match the technology term with its description:

Virtual Reality (VR) = Immersive computer-generated simulation of a three-dimensional environment Artificial Intelligence (AI) = Simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems Blockchain = Decentralized digital ledger technology used to record transactions across multiple computers securely Internet of Things (IoT) = Interconnection via the Internet of computing devices embedded in everyday objects, enabling them to send and receive data

Explore the intersection of art and materials by discussing portraits made from materials related to their subjects, such as butter sculptures and cassette tape sculptures. Consider how artworks like Dominique Blain’s Missa challenge traditional topics by using unconventional materials like army boots.

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