Complete the vocabulary of three-dimensional form.
Occupied volume is ______, and the shaped absence within or around it is the ______. Archipenko substituted ______ for convex so that a hollow reads as a head. Caro removed the ______ entirely, placing work directly on the floor.
Word bank: mass · void · concave · base · plane · line
Hints
- The first pair is the fundamental opposition.
- The last blank is what traditionally separates the work from the world.
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Occupied volume is mass, and the shaped absence within or around it is the void. Archipenko substituted concave for convex so that a hollow reads as a head. Caro removed the base entirely, placing work directly on the floor.
The Archipenko move in the third blank is the deepest version of the claim: once the eye accepts a hollow as a head, the absence of material can represent presence, which is a stronger proposition than saying the void has a shape.
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