Chapter 3 - Lesson 3

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Chapter 3 - Lesson 3

• Sculpture

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Unique Quality of Sculpture

• Exists in space
• Viewed from all sides
• Actual space rather than illusion of space
• A sculptor sets out to fill space with original,
  visually appealing forms.
• These forms may echo reality, express powerful
  emotions, or communicate ideas.

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Vocabulary of sculpture

• Bas relief
• High relief
• Sculpture in the round
• Modeling
• Carving
• Casting
• Assembly
• Kinetic art

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Relief Sculpture

• Not all sculpture can be viewed from all sides.
• Relief sculptures are 3-d forms mounted to a flat
  surface.
• Like paintings these sculptures are designed to
  be viewed form the front.
• Bas relief the sculptured forms project only
  slightly from the background
• High relief the sculptured forms extend boldly
  out into space

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Bas Relief- Donatello - Feast of Herod
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High Relief Andrea della Robbia Madonna
child
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Sculpture in the round

• Any freestanding work surrounded on all sides by
  space.
• Not all freestanding sculptures are meant to be
  viewed from all sides.

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Processes of Sculpture

• Modeling is a process in which a soft, pliable
  material is built up and shaped into a sculptural
  form.
• Clay Wax or Plaster
• Sculptor will gradually add more and more
  material to build a 3-D form, this is known as
  the additive process

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Processes of Sculpture

• Carving is cutting or chipping a form from a
  given mass of material to create a sculpture.
• Stone , Wood
• Removing material in order
• to create a sculpture is
• known as the subtractive
• process.
• Each type of stone has
• unique characteristics
• which create individual
• challenges and textures.

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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I
set him free.
Michelangelo
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Processes of Sculpture

• Casting a melted-down metal or other liquid
  substance is poured into a mold to harden.
• This method allows the artist to duplicate an
  original
• sculpture done in wax, clay, plaster or
  some other material.
• Most widely used
• for is known as
• the cire-perdu
• or lost wax. Well
• over a thousand
• years old
• method.

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Processes of Sculpture

• Assembly The artist gathers and joins together
  a variety of materials to construct a 3-D work of
  art.
• Assemblage is a modern technique usually
  utilizing found items.
• Kinetic Art is a sculptural form that
  actually moves in space. (both externally and
  internally.)

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Sculpture

• No one can predict what the sculptures of the
  future will look like. In one important way,
  however, they will be like the ones of past and
  present They will continue to record the full
  range of human experience in ways that are
  sometimes shocking, sometimes touching, but
  always thrilling to see, to touch, and to
  appreciate.