How Art is Made. Sculpture

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1 How Art is Made Sculpture

2 What is Sculpture? Three dimensional media and their relation to the space we ourselves occupy. One of the oldest of the arts.

3 Types of Sculpture Carving Modeling Casting Assemblage Installation Earthworks Performance Art

4 Sculptural Processes Subtractive - Begins with a mass and the artist removes material to create the finished piece of art. Additive - The artist builds the work by adding material.

5 Carving Cut from a larger piece. A large piece of marble, or other material is cut and chipped away with tools.

6 Types of Carving Low relief: shallow depth of a carving High relief: deep relief of a carving

7 Title: Senwosret I led by Atum to Amun-Re Artist: n/a Date: c BCE

8 Title: Maidens and Stewards Artist: n/a Date: BCE

9 Title: Atlas Bringing Herakles the Golden Apples Artist: n/a Date: c BCE

10 Sculpture in the Round Meant to be seen from all sides The viewer must move all the way around the piece

11 Title: The Rape of the Sabine Women Artist: Giovanni da Bologna Date: Completed 1583

12 Title: Blackburn: Song of an Irish Blacksmith (frontal view) Artist: David Smith Date:

13 Title: Blackburn: Song of an Irish Blacksmith (profile view) Artist: David Smith Date:

14 Title: Atlas Slave Artist: Michelangelo Date: c

15 Title: Nativity Artist: Patrocinio Barela Date: c. 1966

16 Title: Pair Statue of Menkaure and his Queen, Khamerernebty II Artist: n/a Date: Old Kingdon, Dynasty IV, c BCE

17 Title: Kouros (also known as the Kritios Boy) Artist: n/a Date: c. 480 BCE

18 Title: Hermes and Dionysos Artist: Praxiteles Date: c. 330 BCE

19 Title: Three Goddesses Artist: n/a Date: c BCE

20 Title: Jim Sardonis's Reverence, in progress Artist: n/a Date:

21 Title: Reverence Artist: Jim Sardonis Date: 1989

22 Modeling Shaping of a material, usually clay, with your hands.

23 Title: Case of Bottles Artist: Robert Arneson Date: 1964

24 Title: Tomb of Emperor Shih Huang Ti Artist: n/a Date: BCE

25 Casting Pouring liquid into a mold. The liquid hardens and the mold is removed.

26 Title: Head of an Oba Artist: n/a Date: 18th century

27 Title: The Lost-Wax Casting Process Artist: n/a Date: n/a

28 Title: The Burghers of Calais Artist: Auguste Rodin Date:

29 Title: Variability and Repetition of Similar Forms II Artist: Nancy Graves Date: 1979

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32 Assemblage Compiled objects taken from the environment. Found objects

33 Title: Spade with Chains Artist: David Hammons Date: 1973

34 Title: Mother and Child Divided Artist: Damien Hirst Date: 1993

35 Title: Untitled Artist: Robert Gober Date: 1999

36 Title: Swamp Ritual Artist: Clyde Connell Date: 1972

37 Title: Study for Contingent Artist: Eva Hesse Date: 1969

38 Title: Test Piece for Contingent Artist: Eva Hesse Date: 1969

39 Title: Contingent Artist: Eva Hesse Date: 1969

40 Installation Introduction of sculptural elements and other materials into the space to transform your experience of the space.

41 Title: Insurrection! (Our Tools were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On) Artist: Kara Walker Date: Installation view, 2000

42 Title: Insurrection! (Our Tools were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On) Artist: Kara Walker Date: Installation view, 2000

43 Title: Minetta Lane A Ghost Story Artist: Eleanor Antin Date: 1995

44 Title: Minetta Lane A Ghost Story Artist: Eleanor Antin Date: 1995

45 Title: Minetta Lane A Ghost Story Artist: Eleanor Antin Date: 1995

46 Title: A Frontal Passage Artist: James Turrell Date: 1994

47 Earthworks Large-scale out-of-doors environments Transforms the landscape

48 Title: Sun Tunnels, Great Basin Desert, Utah (four showing) Artist: Nancy Holt Date:

49 Title: Sun Tunnels, Great Basin Desert, Utah (one front view) Artist: Nancy Holt Date:

50 Title: Lightning Field Artist: Walter de Maria Date: 1977

51 Title: Considering Mother's Mantle Artist: Karen McCoy Date: 1992

52 Title: Considering Mother's Mantle (detail) Artist: Karen McCoy Date: 1992

53 Performance Art Live sculpture Happenings assemblage of events performed in more than one time and place

54 Title: Household Artist: Allan Kaprow Date: 1964

55 Title: I Like America and America Likes Me Artist: Joseph Beuys Date: 1974

56 Title: Imponderabilia Artist: Marina Abramovíc and Ulay Date: 1977

57 Title: The House with the Ocean View Nov. 22 9:54 am, 2002 Artist: Marina Abramovíc Date: November 15 26, 2002

58 Title: To Raise the Water Level in a Fish Pond Artist: Zhang Huan Date: August 15, 1997

59 Title: The Artist's Studio from The Last Days of Pompeii Artist: Eleanor Antin Date: 2001

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