Fundamentals Chapter 1 2 Form Volume Mass and

Fundamentals Chapter 1. 2 Form, Volume, Mass and Texture

Fig. 1. 2. 1. Three dimensions: Height, width, and depth

Fig. 1. 2. 2. The Great Sphinx of Giza (front), ca. 2500 BCE and the Pyramid of Khafre, ca. 2500 BCE, Giza, Egypt.

Geometric Form

Fig. 1. 2. 3. David Smith, Cubi XIX, 1964. Stainless steel.

Organic Form

Fig. 1. 2. 4. Roettgen Pietá, Middle Rhine region, ca. 1330. Wood.

Lino Tagliapietra, Batman, 1998. Glass.

Relief: High Relief Bas (Low) Relief

Fig. 1. 2. 6. Imperial Procession from the Ara Pacis Augustae, 13 BCE. Marble altar.

Fig. 1. 2. 7. Stela with supernatural scene, Mexico or Guatemala, 761 CE. Limestone.

1¢ and 25¢ Sculpture

Desiderio da Settignano, Saint Jerome in the Desert, c. 1460. Marble Relief, 17 x 22 in.

Lorenzo Ghiberti, Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, from the “Gates of Paradise, ” Florence Baptistry, begun 1425

In-the-Round

Fig. 1. 2. 8 a. Aphrodite Crouching at Her Bath [“Lely’s Venus”]. Marble, Roman, 2 nd century CE. Copy of lost Greek original of the late 3 rd/2 nd century BCE.

Fig. 1. 2. 8 a. Aphrodite Crouching at Her Bath [“Lely’s Venus”]. Marble, Roman, 2 nd century CE. Copy of lost Greek original of the late 3 rd/2 nd century BCE.

Volume

Fig. 1. 2. 9. Volume [left] and mass [right].

Open Volume The amount of space occupied by an object

1. 2. 10 a. Ralph Helmick and Stuart Schechter, Ghostwriter, 1994. Cast metal/stainless cable.

Fig. 1. 2. 10 a. Detail of Ghostwriter.

Fig. 1. 2. 11. Vladimir Tatlin, Model for the Monument to the Third International, 1919.

Fig. 1. 2. 12. Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse, In the Blue [Crest], 2008. Painted Cypress

Henry Moore [British, 1898– 1986], Reclining Figure: Angles, 1979. Bronze, over-life-sized.

Mass Suggests that a volume is solid and occupies space

Fig. 1. 2. 13. Colossal Head, Olmec, 1500 -1300 BCE. Basalt.

Fig. 1. 2. 14. Rachel Whiteread, House, 1993. Concrete.

Fig. 1. 2. 15. marisol [Escobar], Father Damien, 1969. Bronze.

Texture: Actual Implied

Fig. 1. 2. 16. Anish Kapoor, Cloud Gate, 2004.

Fig. 1. 2. 17. Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museum, 1997. Bilbao, Spain.

Fig. 1. 2. 18. Louise Bourgeois, Maman, 1999 [cast 2001], Bronze, stainless steel, and marble.

Subversive Texture

Fig. 1. 2. 19. Méret Oppenheim, Object, 1936. Fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon.