Question
The Yoruba artist Olowe of Ise sculpted veranda posts featuring female examples of these figures, which partly inspired the Corona of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this Greek-derived term for human figures, typically female, that serve as architectural columns. The Porch of the Maidens in the Erechtheion contains six of these figures.
ANSWER: caryatids
[10e] Luba artists like the Master of Buli are known for carving elaborate caryatids into “prestige” examples of these objects. A “Golden” one of these objects serves as the royal throne of the Asante people.
ANSWER: stools [prompt on seats or chairs]
[10h] This artist reinterpreted the role of female caryatids in African art in her bronze series The Seated. In 2019, that series by this contemporary Kenyan-born artist became the first art to sit in the Met’s facade alcoves.
ANSWER: Wangechi Mutu
<TM, Painting and Sculpture>
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