Thursday, November 3, 2016

Thursday, November 2, 2016

Patina

Finish on a sculpture—Can make any bronze, copper, etc. different colors.

Carving:

is the process of taking away—unforgiving, hard to fix mistakes

Death of Virgin

Adrian van Wesel

15th Century

Oak

Assembling:

Becca

David Smith

1965 Stainless Steel

Vermillion

Deborah Butterfield

1969 

Painted Welded Steel

Black Wall 

Louise Nevelson

1959 Wood

Low Relief or Bas-relief

Low/Bas Relief—Limited to the amount of depth, must be visually readable

**Bas—means low in French—Pronounced “Bah” 

High Relief or Haut relief

High/Haut Relief: Not limited to death, also must be visually readable

In the Round 

Sculpture where you can see all the way around (360)

The Burghers of Calais

Auguste Rodin

1884—Bronze

The Human Figure

Mycerinus and Ka-Mereer-Nebty

from Giza

2548-2530 B.C.E

Slate

Closed figure—frontal closed figure^^

Contrappassto

Rib cage and pelvis are separate—makes sculptural figures look life like, or natural

St. Mark

Donatello

1411-13 Marble

Symbolically Powerful

Last Judgement Gislebertus

Installations

Clothespin

Environmental Sculpture

Serpent Mound, near Locust Grove, Ohio

1000 C.E or earlier Uncoiled-1300’

**Mobile—Sculpture that does move, and changes

**Stabile—Sculpture that doesn’t move

Fuzzing the Line: 

Sculpture or Architecture?

Eiffel Tower

Alexandre Gustave Eifel

Permanentsy in sculpture does not have to exist, a work of art does NOT have to last FOREVER.