Clay Modeling Surreal and Grotesque Salvador Dali Persistence of Memory 1931 oil on canvas Salvador Dali Lobster Telephone 1938 Objectives a. Create a surreal or grotesque sculpture. b. Effectively use art elements and principles of design to create a sculpture with clay. 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: Define these in your journal. Surreal Incongruous Grotesque Metamorphosis Juxtapose Modeling Additive Maquette Armature Relevant Art Elements and Principles Form Texture Color Proportion/Scale Balance Unity Variety Surrealism Art and literature movement which began in the 1920s and combined dream-like or seemingly odd elements together.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." Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a BeachApparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach by Salvador Dal, 1938.Salvador Dal1938 Salvador Dali Cabinet Anthropomorphique Bronze David Gilhooly FrogFry 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. 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, Philadelphia Cor-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 Gilhooly Tall Sundaes 1978 Robert Arneson, Bob at Rest, 1981, Glazed ceramic, 39 x 26 x 12" Robert Arneson was an instructor at the University of California at Davis. Humor and non-traditional approaches were encouraged. David Gilhooly was one of his students. 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. Gargoyles of Notre Dame 18 Student Work 19 20 Clay Vocabulary Define each term in your journal. The stages of clay: 1. Slip 2. Plastic 3. Leather-hard 4. Greenware or bone dry 5. Bisqueware 6. Glazeware Other clay terms: Clay Reclaiming Wedging Kiln Firing Score Glaze Review of Objectives: Create a surreal or grotesque sculpture. Drawing inspiration from the previous art work, create your own 3-d clay sculpture that combines incongruous, bizarre, or grotesque elements together. Think about objects that dont normally belong together. Think about dreams youve had or fairy tales or mythology and how you can juxtapose different things to make one new creation. Effectively use art elements and principles of design to create a sculpture with clay. Consider craftsmanship and attention to detail when creating your sculpture. Create a sculpture using the additive process of modeling and subtractive process of carving. Use references looking at actual objects and create several sketches and/or maquettes (small models) to work out ideas. 22 Vocab: Surreal: a mix between real & fantasy, dream-like, bizarre Incongruous: not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings or other aspects of some thing Grotesque: comically or repulsively ugly or distorted Metamorphosis: changing or transforming from one state to another Juxtapose: placing two opposite elements next to each other Modeling: shaping a soft material Additive: building up/adding material to the work Maquette: small scale model; rough draft Armature: a framework to build the sculpture on