9/12/2010- Warm up: Write down the definition of relief sculpture and sculpture in the round! A relief sculpture sculpture "in the round

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1 9/12/2010- Warm up: Write down the definition of relief sculpture and sculpture in the round! A relief sculpture, is a sculpture made to be seen from one side (or from one angle). A sculpture "in the round", on the other hand, is made to be seen from many directions (or angles), perhaps even from above and below, as well as from behind. So, it is free-standing and must be fully developed from all points of view.

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5 High Relief

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8 Sunken Relief

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10 Expressive Relief Sculpture

11 Coil or Slab Built Vessel-Sculpture in the Round

12 Sculpture in the Round- Clay Bust

13 CLAY TALK YO: ADDITIVE SUBTRACTIVE Relief sculpture Sculpture in the round Hand built- pinch, coil, slab Wheel Thrown Green ware Bisque ware Leather hard bone dry Slip Wedge Air bubble Firing Kiln

14 Clay comes from the earth. It is usually found in deposits along rivers. Then dried and foreign particles are removed. It's then crushed until fine and powdery. The Dry Clay is mixed together in different recipes to create a clay body. Slip is liquid clay that is too wet to construct pots out of. Slip is also used as a pot is being constructed. It can help attach pieces together, almost like a glue.

15 The clay body also needs to be wedged. That means it needs to be kneaded to make it even in consistency and to remove any air pockets. (Air trapped in clay will expand when it is fired and blow the pot apart.)

16 The Pot is Constructed using this moist pliable clay body, using one or several of the construction methods including pinch coil Slab wheel. As a pot is being constructed it is covered up to keep if from drying out. If you need to return to finish it later it must be moist.

17 The constructed pot becomes Leatherhard as it begins to dry and it still feels damp and cool to the touch but if you tried to bend it, it would break. It might take just a couple of hours for a small pot or overnight for a larger pot to become leatherhard. The example on the right shows this stage. A leatherhard pot can be scraped to smooth it out or carved into to decorate it.

18 Then if you leave the leatherhard pot uncovered, within 2 to 5 days the pot becomes Bone Dry. Bone dry pottery means there is no moisture left in it all. The pot doesn't even feel cool any longer. If it felt cool it would still have moisture in it. The pot is very fragile and can be turned back to slip by covering it with water. At this point the pot can now be Fired.

19 A pot is fired to make it rock hard. The pots are heated to about 2000 degrees. They are fired (not baked) in an oven-like device called a kiln. After the pots have been fired the first time they are called Bisque pottery. They are now rock hard and the clay can't be softened with water any longer.

20 Glazeware is the term given to pottery that has had glaze applied to it. Glaze is the glass-like coating that is brushed on a pot and then the pot has to be fired a final time to develop the glass like coating. The glazed pot looks chalky and the glass and color developed after it has again been fired, this time the firing is called the Glaze Fire. Glaze is being applied to this pitcher with a brush.

21 Liquid glazes/glaze Fire: Suspensions of various powdered minerals, and metal oxides-can be applied by dipping pieces directly into the glaze, pouring the glaze over piece, spraying it or using a brush. To prevent the glaze from sticking to the kiln during firing, leave a small part of the piece unglazed. Leave ¼ inch around hole unglazed. Over glaze- Low temperature glazes that give ceramics a more decorative, glassy look. Apply one or more coats.

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38 Some other random artists take on busts.

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49 Proportion of the Face Guidelines! The eyes are halfway between the top of the head and the chin. The bottom of the nose is halfway between the eyes and the chin. The mouth is halfway between the nose and the chin. The corners of the mouth line up with the centers of the eyes. The top of the ears line up above the eyes, on the eyebrows. The bottom of the ears line up with the bottom of the nose.

50 Face Proportion Hints Faces are extremely symmetrical There are general things that can help you along the way Always position the hair a bit higher then the top of the head, or else sometimes you may notice that your head looks a bit flat.

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52 Stonehenge Neolithic (New Stone Age) c b.c. Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England Henge= a Prehistoric monument built in a circular area with standing wooden pillars and often enclosed by a bank or ditch, probably used for tribal or religious rituals. Size of Stones at Construction- -30 Sarsen Stones (sandstones), with lintels weighed 25 tons. -Bluestones (Megaliths) weighed up to 4 tons. -Trilithons weighed about 45 tons.

53 Warm up: (You have 10 minutes) *Get out your group s list of questions from last class. At table 1 you will find info. On both artworks. You have 10 minutes to read over info. And answer your questions.

54 Warm up: Are these artworks classified as sculpture in the round, or relief sculpture? Choose 2 of these sculptures to compare and contrast in terms of what they look like, when you think they were made, who you think they were made for, how they were made, what materials they were made of and what their purpose might have been?

55 Venus of Willendorf, near Willendorf, Austria Paleolithic 24,000 to 22,000 B.C.E.; discovered in Austria in 1908 by anthropologist George Grant MacCurdy. statuette height: 11.1 centimeters Materials: carved (presumably with flint tools) from fine, porous limestone and red ochre for color. This oolitic limestone was not found in the region and so the statuette must have been brought to the area from another location. Cave paintings from Lascaux France were discovered about the same time.

56 Sumerian: These statues were placed in Sumerian temples by worshippers. They were believed to pray for the person who put them there. The Royal Tombs of Ur 2700 BC

57 Greek: Myron s Discos Thrower 5 th Century B.C.E B.C. His original bronze work Discobolus, was thought to represent the perfect athletic form.

58 Gian Lorenzo Bernini a sculpture in the round or a relief? Is your sculpture interesting from every angle?

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60 St Theresa in Ecstasy I saw in his hand a long spear of gold, and at the iron's point there seemed to be a little fire. He appeared to me to be thrusting it at times into my heart, and to pierce my very entrails; when he drew it out, he seemed to draw them out also, and to leave me all on fire with a great love of God. The pain was so great, that it made me moan; and yet so surpassing was the sweetness of this excessive pain, that I could not wish to be rid of it. The soul is satisfied now with nothing less than God. The pain is not bodily, but spiritual; though the body has its share in it. It is a caressing of love so sweet which now takes place between the soul and God, that I pray God of His goodness to make him experience it who may think that I am lying.

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65 Expressive Relief Sculpture

66 Coil or Slab Built Vessel-Sculpture in the Round

67 Sculpture in the Round- Clay Bust

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74 Proportion of the Face Guidelines! The eyes are halfway between the top of the head and the chin. The bottom of the nose is halfway between the eyes and the chin. The mouth is halfway between the nose and the chin. The corners of the mouth line up with the centers of the eyes. The top of the ears line up above the eyes, on the eyebrows. The bottom of the ears line up with the bottom of the nose.

75 Face Proportion Hints Faces are extremely symmetrical There are general things that can help you along the way Always position the hair a bit higher then the top of the head, or else sometimes you may notice that your head looks a bit flat.

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77 Warm it up- Critique one of the sculptures below using the 4 steps of art criticism. Describe, Analyze, Interpret and Judge Butterfield, Palma, 1990, found steel, 77 x 119 x 26 inches) DALE CHIHULY BLUE APPEAL SEAFORM SET WITH ASTRAL WHITE LIP WRAPS, x 23 x 20" Claes Oldenburg Typewriter Eraser, Scale X, 1999

78 Warm up: create a list of questions about 1 artwork on the overhead. (you have 5 minutes!)

79 Alexander Calder American, Cheval Rouge (Red Horse), 1974 painted sheet metal Courtesy Calder Foundation, New York

80 Barry Flanagan British, born 1941 Thinker on a Rock, 1997 cast bronze

81 Louise Bourgeois American, born 1911, France Spider, 1996, cast 1997 bronze with silver nitrate patina Gift of The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation

82 Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen American, born 1929, Sweden / American, born 1942, The Netherlands Typewriter Eraser, Scale X, 1999

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86 Stonehenge Neolithic