WASSCE SHS
Sculpture is form you can walk around or form that stays on a background. Modelling adds material. Carving takes material away.
Modelling builds the form by adding a soft material such as clay. You can push it, add more, and take a little off. Carving starts with a block of wood or stone and removes material. What you cut away is gone, so the plan matters more at the start. An answer that says "I made a statue" has not said which process. Name the material and whether you added or removed.
A relief stays attached to a background. You see it mainly from the front, like a picture that has been pushed forward. Work in the round is free standing. You can walk around it, so the back has to be finished as well as the front. An armature is a support hidden inside a modelled figure, often wire or a stick. It holds a tall or thin part so the wet clay does not collapse. Say why it is there if the question asks. A coil pot and a carved panel are both three dimensional work, and they are not the same process.
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Adding and removing are different marks. Clay points to modelling. A wood block points to carving, unless you say you joined pieces. Relief is not in the round. If you claim both, say which part is which. An armature is a support, not a style. Do not describe a drawing and call it a sculpture.
These are practice questions in the style of the paper, with a model answer and a mark scheme. They are not a promise of what your paper will ask.
4 marks
Explain the difference between modelling and carving. (4 marks)
Modelling adds a soft material such as clay and shapes it. Carving removes material from a block such as wood or stone. In carving, the piece you cut away cannot be put back.
2 marks
State one difference between a relief and a work in the round. (2 marks)
A relief stays attached to a background and is seen mainly from the front. A work in the round is free standing and can be seen from every side.
2 marks
Why might a modelled figure need an armature? (2 marks)
The armature supports the clay from inside. A tall or thin part would collapse while the clay is wet without that support.
More questions on this topic are inside glearn, marked as you answer, with the reason written out. The first ones need no account.
Practise Visual Arts freeModelled, if you built it by adding and shaping clay. Carving removes material from a harder block, such as wood or stone. Name the process that matches the material.
It is the support inside a modelled figure. It holds parts that would collapse while the clay is soft. It is not a style of decoration. All WASSCE Visual Arts past questions