- Sculpture: 3D dimensional art made by carving, modeling, casting, and constructing.
- Requires engineering knowledge
- Objects have weight, need to make that weight stable
- Ankles are overbuilt in sculptures to hold up the weight
- Requires engineering knowledge
- Dimensionality: how dimensional is it
- In the Round: Standing free, all sides shown, carved in relief against the ground. Very difficult needs engineering.
- Relief Sculpture: Work which figures projects from supporting background.
- Partially Full Round (high relief): Similar to relief but it looks like if the pieces were attached to the place with super glue
- Linear: Made by line. Constructed from materials such as wire, pipe, etc.
- Execution:
- Subtraction: removing material to create a finished work
- Hard, if you mess up, fix it in a creative way
- Most of the greek statues are made this way
- Additive: adding material to create the final work
- Construction: taking pre-formed pieces of material to create something new
- Substitution: starts with the additive shelter, create mold, and use that mold to create something
- ○ Lost Wax Method: create a model out of clay, cover with wax and carve it, put metals on top
- Metals are expensive, wanna use little amount
- Common for statues
- Manipulation: shaped by skilled hands
- Pottery
- Subtraction: removing material to create a finished work
- Elements of composition:
- Mass
- Line and form
- Open form: directs eye through the piece and out beyond the work
- Start with center of mass or face
- Look where arms and eyes are pointing
- Closed-form
- Directs eye through the piece
- Common with religion
- Negative space
- Space around and the subjects of an image
- Missing element can be the most important element of the piece
- Color
- Come from the material
- Renaissance, ppl stopped painting
- Not always white
- Understand sculpture as it was painted back then, not the current
white color
- Texture
- Convey emotion and movement
- Proportion
- Dimensions and relationships between height, width, and depth of
different parts - Ideas of proper proportions change in different places
- Dimensions and relationships between height, width, and depth of
- Other factors in sculpture:
- Articulation/Eye movement
- Eye will move in predictable ways
- Center of mass is usually where the eye starts or face
- Follow parts, first leg, back up, then next leg, etc.
- Focal area
- Center of mass or face (human sculptures)
- Movement
- Arrows
- Found art
- Created by objects that are not perceived as art most of the time
- Ex: urinal
- What is art?
- Sense Art:
- Touch sculpture
- Ex: finger pressing into the skin → get a sense of the soft human touch instead of the hardness of marble
- Temperatures:
- Warm and cool colors affect the temperature we may perceive
- Red→ hot
- Blue → cold
- Wood → warm
- Marble → cold
- Age:
- Can add weathering
- Something that looks older will make us think about the past
- Dynamic:
- Get a sense of movement of the statue
- Lighting:
- Gives us a sense of color which gives us a sense of temperature and emotion
- With light is on this is read differently
- Environment:
- Where the sculpture is → the read will be differently