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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