Frank, Patrick,Prebles’ artforms : an introduction to the visual arts / Patrick Frank. —10thed. p. cm.…
6. Sculpture that has grooves of various depths cut into the surface plane of stone while the surface remains clearly perceptible is…
With great excitement this book is written to share my analysis of artwork from the three time periods that I was so fortunate to visit during my recent time travels.…
It seems that the Renaissance (1300-1700), methods of presenting the surrounding world in a flat pictorial plane using linear perspective, has dictated the way artists have worked for countless centuries. Linear perspective is a technique used by artists that uses line to create the illusion of depth and space within their work. However this approach is only a representation created using a singular eye. This method of working is suggested to have originated from Leon Battista Alberti’s (1404-1472) metaphor of painting, he proposes that a work of art can be comparable to ‘… an open window through which the subject to be painted is seen’ (1435-6). Alberti’s statement seems to be the explanation to why flat works of art, are repeatedly presented in a rectangle or square shape. Nevertheless something interesting started happening in the twentieth century, a sparse number of individual artists started challenging this manner of working. Since the birth of photography there was no need for art to serve a documentation purpose anymore or to be representational, traditional ways of…
When observing the sculpture in person and up close it puts one into an emotional state. There were varying emotions that were expressed from a personal perspective. For example, the texture and human characteristics a simple marble sculpture had was ‘shocking’. Aside from the marble itself, what I saw was an individual who rewrote history and is solely responsible for the diverse cultural interactions amongst groups…
In a time of strict academic holds in the artistic world, Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel moved the art of sculpting into the future. Known by many as “the father of modern sculpture (Bio.),” Rodin has produced such a great number of notable works that he is one of the “few artists recognizable to the general public (Brucker).” As art was shifting from the portrayal of mythical scenes and historical events to a focus on everyday life in the Impressionist period, Rodin brought attention to the lives common people through sculpture. It can be derived from his failed attempts in applying to the classic schools of his time that Rodin did not set out to revolutionize art in his field, but his unconventional style ended up completely changing what sculpture means to the world (Musee Rodin).…
1. How did the earliest sculptors use the shapes found in natural materials to their advantage? (5.1)…
3. Describe the construction of space. Is the sculpture a relief (high, low, or sunken), is it attached to or presented on a base, or is it freestanding? Is there a preferred viewing angle, or is the sculpture intended to be viewed in-the-round? Describe the relationship between positive and negative space in the work. Imagine the work has a central axis. How does the positive and negative space relate to the central axis? How does the sculpture relate to its surroundings (how is it exhibited)?…
When a sculpture is three-dimensional it is not flat and can be measured in height, depth and width. Most three-dimensional sculptures has enough details they seem to be lifelike. It is a sculpture in-the-round. It is meant to be seen from all sides and is freestanding. The sculpture is an assemblage because it is a transformation of common materials (chicken wire) into art sculpture. Assemblage sculpture can be made out of anything organic or man-made. (Examples: scraps, wood, stones, wire and so much more). Just by looking at the fine details Kinzett put into his wire sculptures, you know that he has a lot of time (about a month to make each) and patience (he has to enjoy being a artist). Kinzetts chicken wire sculptures has made him rich; he get about $6,000 or more each…
While living in Norway, Gabo left academic figurative art behind and develops what he calls his “stereometric” method of sculpture. This technique, which consists of interlocking sheet materials pieced together with tape or glue, becomes central to Gabo’s work.…
References: Doss, E. (2002, April). Oxford History of Art: Twentieth-Century American Art. Cary, NC, USA: OUP Oxford. Retrieved from ebrary, 289…
issue. Since Einstein, we have come to recognize that the space in which we live is fluid. It takes place in time. We have developed new kinds of space as well— the space of mass media, the Internet, the computer screen, “virtual reality,” and cyberspace. All these new kinds of space result, as we shall see, in new media for artists. But first, we need to define some elementary concepts of shape and mass.…
A set of artistic practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space. Nicholas Bourriaud 1998…
The focus on surface meant that the meaning of the object was not seen as important to the object itself, but comes from the interaction between viewers with the object. This led to the emphasis on the physical space in which the artwork resided, such as Kelly’s “Sculpture for a large wall”. It’s a huge combination of aluminum panels, each of the panels oriented in a different way, so that color and form are made to interact with both the wall and the space of the viewer. The work captures the effect of sunlight on a river and the light and shade on buildings in cityscapes. While compare with the painting, the artists painted simple canvases that were considered minimal due to they used of only line, solid color, and geometric forms and shaped canvases. These artists combined painting materials in their own…
from 1907 – 1914. During this time, Cubism morphed from its seminal beginnings to its…