National Gallery of Art Virtual Tour

National Gallery of Art
Let’s take a tour!

Go to: www.nga.gov
Select: NGA Kids
Click on: Lizzy and Gordon (the picture)
Click on: Sculpture Garden
Read: SEE!
Click on: Sculpture Garden
Listen: As the narrator read the story of Lizzy and Gordon, answer the following questions.

1. Mom wants Lizzy and Gordon to “Observe, stretch your mind and use your ____________.”
2. Why are Lizzy and Gordon touring the Sculpture Garden? ____________________
3. Gordon thought the sculpture looked like _____________ _________.
4. The pyramid looked like giant _________ __________.
5. Lizzy and the ___________ are both “thinking.”
6. Lizzy learned that not even NOT _________ can be ___________.
7. Inside the house, one of the ladies said, “__________ is always a three-dimentional experience.”
8. Who said, “And, relatives come in all sizes?” ______________
9. Who said, “Now that computers rule, nobody remembers me?’ _________
10. What is missing in the “crowd of small bronze figures of girls?” ______________
11. Who leads Lizzy to the polished red granite chairs?_______________
12. What is the name of the chair? _______
13. Who multiplies into two? ____________
14. What is the rabbit called? ___________________________

Answer the following questions by clicking the sculptures (clockwise beginning with the big eraser) and reading Our Vist to the Sculpture Garden, by Lizzy and Gordon.

15. What is the title of the big eraser sculpture? ___________________
16. Who are the sculptors of the big eraser? ________________ & _____________________
17. When was this artist born? _______
18. Where was this artist born? _______
19. Who sculpted the giant spider? ________________
20. Why did she become an artist? __________________
21. Who does the giant spider represent? ____________________
22. When was this artist born? ________
23. Where was this artist born? __________
24. What is the title of the odd looking sculpture over the spider? __________________
25. Who is the artist? ___________________
26. This sculptor is known for using “things” he found to create his art . In this sculpture the artist used a _________ for the head and a _______ from a donkey for the body.
27. When was this artist born?
28. Where was this artist born?
29. The sculpture of the “girls” was done by ___________________
30. What is the title of this sculpture? __________________
31. Where does the inspiration for art come from for this artist? _________________
32. This artist believes “when governments are taken over by evil dictators, people become s as insignificant as _____.”
33. When was this artist born? _____
34. Where was this artist born? _______
35. It’s “untitled” but the artist is _________________.
36. Gordon says in his homework that the sculpture looks like “a person ____________”
37. This artist “achieves a balance between ________ and ___________” in his geormetric form.
38. When was this artist born?
39. Where was this artist born?
40. The big ball of iron sculpture is called _________
41. The Roman name for the goddess of dawn who flies across the sky announcing the arrival of the sun is also ___________.
42. Gordon sees “a jumble of __________, __________, and _______” jolted awake by a rst-red ______;”
43. Gordon does not think this artist nor the poet who wrote ______ either one liked New York City.
44. How much does this sculpture weigh? _______
45. When was this artist born?
46. Where was this artist born?
47. What are these chairs about? What’s the title of this sculpture? ______________
48. The sculptor, ___________, designed these _______ (how many?) chairs and he said they have a practical purpose meaning that he wants you “to ______ on them.”
49. This artist is described as “sculpture in love with _______.”
50. When was this artist born? _____
51. Where was this artist born? ______
52. It looks like a “futuristic TV set or a ___________ but it is wafer-thin and has no distinguishing marks or messages…”
53. What is the title of this sculpture? _____
54. Who is the sculptor? _______
55. What is this sculpture made from _______?
56. What inspired this artist to make this sculpture? ______
57. When was this artist born? _____
58. Where was this artist born? ______
59. “I think; therefore, I am!” What is the title of this sculpture? _______
60. Who is the artist? ______
61. While sculpting the artist says the hare did what? _________
62. Obviously, this artist modeled the thinking hare after the famous sculpture “_________” by _____________.
63. When was this artist born?
64. Where was this artist born?
65. He is called a “conceptional artist.” Who is he? ________
66. What is the title of his “structure?” _____________________
67. What is the artist’s name? ____________
68. Where was this “structure” created? ________
69. What materieals were used to create this “structure”? ______ & _____
70. When was this artist born? _______
71. Where was this artist born? ______
72. Depending on the angle used to view this sculpture you might see a giant, bronze _____.
73. The title of this sculpture is “________________.”
74. The sculpture, _______________, was an architect who became interested in sculpture.
75. The sculpture is a “logical geometric configuration consisting of 15 ________ and 10 _________!
76. The title of the sculpture comes from two sources: a ____ and a _____ both of whom lived in New York City.
77. When was this artist born? ____
78. Where was this artist born? _____
79. So when is a chair not just a chair? What is the title of this sculpture? ________________
80. Who is the sculptor of this unusual art? ____________
81. This artist likes to “transform the ordinary object into a fantastical one, evoking a ___________ ______________.”
82. In this sculpture the artist “suggests an animated _________ of stacked chairs...which “appears from different viewpoints to be _____, ______ or ________.”
83. When was this artist born? ____
84. Where was this artist born? _____
85. A farmer, not a real sculptor?? His name is _____________
86. This “self-formed sculptor” never had a lesson and used welding skills learned when he worked in an ________ plant to create his art.
87. His sculpture is titled _______________.
88. When asked if he “meant for his abstract forms to look like people” the artist answered “________________________. “
89. This artist worked with medium welded steel which associates with the 20th century by possessing “_______, _______, ______, _____, _______, ______.”
90. When was this artist born? ____
91. Where was this artist born? _____
92. WoW!!! What a house! Who did this? ___________________
93. He titled it _____________
94. This artist’s work is different because he didn’t look like _________. “Which was the point.”
95. His “house” is a “fold-out _____ _____...and “There is no _____.”
96. This sculpture “incorporates the hallmarks of the artist’s style: ______, __________, __________, and a palette based on ______ colors.”
97. When was this artist born?
98. Where was this artist born?
99. “A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!” This sculpture is known as the “Red Horse” but its real title is ______ _______.
100. This artist shares his name with both his father and his grandfather and that name is _____________. All 3 were ________.
101. His greatest inventions was the “_______”, a sculpture that moves.
102. This sculpture is known as a “______.”
103. The artist commented on this sculpture by saying, “I want to make things that are ________, that have no propaganda value whatsoever.”
104. When was this artist born? ____
105. Where was this artist born? ____
106. Is this a square lollipop, or what? The title of this sculpture is ____________ and the sculptor is ________.
107. Interested in the “ _______ of air around a sculpture” the artist designed the sculpture so that “even when all four turn at the same time, they brush by one another like ______, without ever touching.
108. The artist’s “kinetic sculpture provides a dialogue between ______ and _____.”
109. When was the artist born?
110. Where was the artist born?