Cire Perdue: The Lost-Wax Casting Lab

Core Creation Fashion a rough clay core to save metal and provide structure. Wax Modeling Apply beeswax and carve the intricate details of the Oba. Cire Perdue: The Lost-Wax Casting Lab lets you explore this hands-on instead of only reading about it.

This unit explores the diverse artistic traditions of Sub-Saharan Africa, emphasizing the role of art in leadership, community ritual, and ancestral veneration. It highlights the performative nature of many African art… It focuses on Royal Regalia and Power, Masquerade and Performance, Ancestral Veneration, Oral Tradition and Memory, Materials: Brass, Wood, and Fiber, The Benin Bronzes from the “Unit 6: Africa, 1100–1980 CE” section.

The sliders change the key inputs; you can drag elements directly on the canvas; the “Start”, “Reset Process” buttons run actions or reset the demo. Every change updates the visualization in real time, so you can see exactly how each variable affects the outcome.

AP Art History is a college-level survey course that explores the nature of art, its uses, and its meanings through the investigation of 250 prescribed works of art spanning from prehistory to the present. Students deve… This demo is the interactive piece for the “Unit 6: Africa, 1100–1980 CE” section. Open the full AP Art History course wiki at https://www.getlykke.com/explore/public/ap-art-history-f51173a9-1720-4a4e-ae2a-947e74f02bf7 for notes, flashcards, quizzes and the other demos.

You'll build intuition for Royal Regalia and Power, Masquerade and Performance, Ancestral Veneration, Oral Tradition and Memory, Materials: Brass, Wood, and Fiber, The Benin Bronzes — and, crucially, see how they behave when you change the inputs, which is hard to get from a textbook or lecture on AP Art History alone.