Unit 2: Selected Works
3-D Art & Design · Unit 2 · Paper 2

Selected Works unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

Each paper is built from this unit’s 55 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 2, Paper 2” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.
Suggested time 34 min 31 points0/17 attempted
1

Color in three dimensions

2

Choosing the second view

3

Lighting for documentation

4

Multiples and installation

5

Structure and load

6

Two views per work

7

Choosing your five for 3-D

8

Base and plinth as part of the work

9

Balance: physical and visual

10

Kinetic and interactive work

11

Movement and kinetics

12

Function and non-function

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Shadow as information

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Showing scale in an image

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Orientation and gravity

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Openness and enclosure

3 pts

Free response

7 pts

A 3-D Art and Design student has a Selected Works candidate that is a kinetic piece: a suspended assembly of laser-cut acrylic panels that rotate slowly in air currents, changing the composition continuously.

Explain the central documentation problem this work presents.

Explain how the student should use the image allowance to address it.

Write materials, processes, and ideas responses for this work, each within roughly 100 characters.

Explain why "kinetic" belongs in the processes response rather than the materials response.

Explain one thing a reader can judge about this work from still images and one thing they cannot.

Explain how the student should decide whether to submit this work at all, given the documentation constraint.

Explain how the reader's inability to see the motion should affect which of the five works this one is.