SCULPTURE

ARTS 1301.51007T, R, 1:30PM-2:50PMProfessor Paige Prater

Sculpture

• Free-standing: in the round• Relief: bas-relief OR high relief

Sculpture Methods: Subtractive OR Additive

• Casting– Lost-wax– patina

• Carving• Modeling• Earthworks

– Monumental• Construction

– Constructivist movement, Soviet Union• Readymade• Kinetic• Light• Installation

Bronze Casting: Lost-Wax

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVe3VeQfyzw• Additive• 7 steps!

Bronze Casting: Ancient Greek

• Discovered in 1972 by scuba divers

• Perfection ideal

Riace Warrior A, c. 450 BCE. Bronze, 6’6” high. National Museum, Reggio Calabria, Italy

Carving: Stone, wood, etc.

• Drill, chip, whittle, or saw away material; sand, polish…

• Position• Granite block• Sculpture of the Lady Sennuwy, 1971–1926 BCE.

Granite, 67 x 45¾ x 18½”. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition

Carving: in the round

Giambologna, Rape of a Sabine, 1583. Marble, 13’6” high. Loggia dei Lanzi, Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Italy

Carving: Bas-Relief

• Shallow• One-sided

Dying Lioness, limestone relief from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal, Nineveh, Assyrian period, c. 650 BCE. British Museum, London, England

Carving: High-Relief

• DEEP incisions

• One-sided

Susan Durant, Memorial to King Leopold of the Belgians, 1867, in Christ Church, Esher, England

Sculpture: Modeling

• Additive• Clay• plasticity• Armature

sometimes• 4 separate

pieces

Sarcophagus from Cerveteri, c. 520 BCE. Painted terracotta, 3’9½” x 6’7”. Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome, Italy

Sculpture: Kinetic

• Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSKyHmjy

rkA• Ted Talk with Theo Jansen• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b694exl_o

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Sculpture: Earthworks

Great Serpent Mound, c. 800 BCE–100 CE, 1330 x 3’, Locust Grove, Adams County, Ohio. SUMMER SOLSTICE

Sculpture: Earthworks

• Collaborative• Monumental• Ancient Americas• Robert Smithson,

Spiral Jetty (1970)– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v

=NUu0_Zn55yM

Sculpture: Readymade

Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917. Replica (original lost). Porcelain urinal, 12 x 15 x 18”. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection

• Found objects• artifacts

Sculpture: Construction

• Standardized, engineered materials• Concept: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDuzy-t7GDA&list=PL42AF5A9C1415F64D&index=19

Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991. Glass, steel, silicon, formaldehyde solution, and shark, 7’1½” x 17’9⅜” x 5’10⅞”

Sculpture: Constructivism

• Constructivists saw art as a scientific investigation of social needs at the time

Naum Gabo, Constructed Head No. 2, 1916. Cor-ten steel, 69 × 52¾ × 48¼”. Tate, London, England

Sculpture: Light

• Adela Andea http://www.adelaandea.com/index.html

• Lazlo Maholy-Nagy: merged light, performance, and movement

Olafur Eliasson, Remagine, 2002. Spotlights, tripods, or wall mounts, control unit, dimensions variable. Installation at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, 2004

Sculpture: Installation

Antony Gormley, Asian Field, 2003. 210,000 hand-sized clay elements, installation view, warehouse of former ShanghaiNo. 10 Steelworks, China

• Assembled objects• environment