Clay ModelingSurreal and Grotesque

Salvador DaliLobster Telephone

1938

Salvador DaliPersistence of Memory1931oil on canvas

Objectives

a. Create a surreal or grotesque sculpture.

b. Effectively use art elements and principles of design to create a sculpture

with clay.(juxtapose)

c. Consider craftsmanship and attention to detail when creating your

sculpture.

d. Create a sculpture using the additive process of modeling and subtractive

process of carving.

e. Use references looking at actual objects and create several sketches

and/or maquettes (small models) to work out ideas.

Relevant terms:

• Surreal• Incongruous• Grotesque• Metamorphosis• Modeling• Additive• Maquette• Freestanding

Relevant Art Elements and Principles

• Form• Texture• Color• Proportion/Scale• Balance• Unity• Variety• Contrast

SurrealismArt and literature movement which began in the 1920s and combined dream-like or seemingly odd elements together.

http://www.surrealism.org/

“Surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of experience so completely that the world of dream and fantasy would be joined to the everyday rational world in ‘an absolute reality, a surreality’."

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/surrealism/

Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach by Salvador Dalí, 1938.

Salvador DaliCabinet Anthropomorphique

Bronze

The term, Funk, was coined in 1966 by Peter Selz for a show at the University of California Art Museum in Berkeley, California.  The implied meaning was something common,

dopey, stupid or low.  Shows of Funk Art were often met with the question, "What, you call this Art?" 

They were inspired by the Pop Art movement. For example, they looked to the work of Claes Oldenburg. -http://davidgilhooly.com/02funk.htm

 

Oldenburg, Clothespin Centre Square Plaza, Fifteenth and Market streets, PhiladelphiaCor-Ten and stainless steels 45 ft. x 12 ft. 3 in. x 4 ft. 6 in. (13.7 x 3.7 x 1.4 m)

Claes Oldenburg, Dropped Cone,  2001

David Gilhooly. Burger for Two. 2008. Ceramic. 8 x 4 x 4 in.

David GilhoolyTall Sundaes1978

David GilhoolyFrogFry with Bacon and Eggs 1985

David Gilhooly is a well-known sculptor, who is recognized primarily for his ceramic sculpture of animals, food, planets and the FrogWorld.  A graduate of the University of California at Davis (BA, 1965 MA, 1967), he and his friends, working in TB-9 were what was later to be called, The Funk Ceramic Movement of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Robert Arneson, Bob at Rest, 1981,Glazed ceramic, 39 x 26 x 12"

Robert Arneson

self portrait

Jack Earle It's the clothes that make the man

Grotesque: Since at least the 18th century, grotesque has come to be used as a general

adjective for the strange, fantastic, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting. It defies the

notions of art as beautiful.

http://www.theofantastique.com/2010/05/18/gary-varner-gargoyles-grotesques-and-green-men/

Gargoyles of Notre Dame

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Clay VocabularyDefine each term in your journal.

The stages of clay:1. Slip2. Plastic3. Leather-hard4. Greenware or bone dry5. Bisqueware6. Glazeware

Other clay terms:ClayReclaimingWedgingKilnFiring ScoreGlaze

Vocab: • Surreal: a mix between real & fantasy; bizarre• Incongruous: not in harmony or keeping with

the surroundings or other aspects of something• Grotesque: comically or repulsively ugly or

distorted• Metamorphosis: changing from one state to

another• Juxtapositioning: Two oppisite elements placed

next to each other• Additive: the style of adding material to the

work• Maquette: small scale model; rough draft• Freestanding: unattached to a supporting

element or background (sculpture)