Consider Fuller's Talking Skull. Discuss the particular aspects of human experience that this work explores, and explain the artist's struggles to achieve personal goals and connections with her cultural heritage.
What will be an ideal response?
Fuller's sculpture reflects a spiritual belief of her cultural heritage and depicts the realization of the desire to connect with ancestors. On one level, Talking Skull embodies a universal message about the desire for communion beyond the boundaries of our brief lifetime. But it is also a specifically African-American work that addresses the traumatic rupture with ancestral culture that slavery had caused.
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a. to add to b. to make colorful c. to cut into d. to throw away
Romanesque churches' portals were of special importance, because they
A) showcased individual stonemasons' skills. B) defined the boundary between secular and sacred space. C) reminded visitors of their mortality. D) previewed the wonders that lay within the church.