I GIVE Read the excerpt from A Short Walk Around the Pyramids and through the World of Art
This bronze sculpture stands in the courtyard of the
Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC. It is the
work of a sculptor named Jacques Lipchitz and was
made in the years 1926-30 Because it is bronze, it
wasn't carved. Instead, the artist shaped it in plaster.
The plaster was taken to a foundry, where a mold
was made from it. Molten bronze was then poured
into the mold, and when it cooled and was opened,
Figure, as the work is called, emerged
Sidebar
Jacques Lipchitz was a Russian sculptor who lived
in France and the United States in the 1900s. He is
famous for his bronze sculptures of figures and
animals
How does the sidebar help readers better
understand the passage?
o It helps readers understand and identify bronze
sculptures
o It helps readers understand art from the 1900s.
o It helps readers identify Jacques Lipchitz and
understand his art.
o It helps readers understand abstract art.