free form abstract sculpture. what is free form abstract sculpture? it is a modern style sculpture...
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Free Form
Abstract Sculpture
What is Free Form Abstract Sculpture?
• It is a modern style sculpture that has smooth curves and is an abstraction of an object or idea from real life
How does this style of sculpture compare to sculpture created by the
masters of the Renaissance?
The Renaissance
1400-1600
- Rebirth of Arts
- Move toward more Realistic art
- Attention to life-like details
- Humanistic ideas
- Beginning of Perspective
- expanded ideas
The Pieta’
By Michelangelo
-Created 1499
-Made in Marble
- Located at St. Peter’s Basilica
Notice how real
the features, clothes, and skin
look.
Shifts in Art Trends
• There was a deliberate shift away from the ideals and perfect forms of the Renaissance
• Over time art trends change rapidly
• But “expanded ideas” continue
Modern Sculpture-Experimentation of media
- Breaking away from traditional ways of making art
-Works were unexpected
- abstract ideas
- unrealistic forms
- ideas were expanded
Free Form Sculpture
• English Sculptor Henry Moore worked in both Abstract and non-objective Styles
• Choices of Media included wood and bronze
Henry Moore Abstract Sculptor, 1898-1986
Henry Moore “The Reclining Figure”
Bronze Sculpture
Reaching 16 feet tall, this column-like sculpture twists and
turns within its natural
setting.
Now get ready to expand your
mind and create your own abstract sculpture
Sand down rough edges of block with sandpaper.
Write name on bottom of block with permanent
marker.
Bend coat-hanger into a shape that will become your
abstract form.
BE CREATIVE!!!
Use a small dot of wood glue to secure the coat-hanger into the
block.
Stretch knee-high
over the coat-
hanger to create a form.
Coat the sculpture in liquid starch with a sponge brush
several times.
Choose an abstract theme
and title for your piece, then paint the
sculptures to represent the abstract idea.
Created by: Gena Maleyhttp://www.murray.kyschools.us/MMS/maley-home.asp