HISTORY Sculpture ART HISTORY Sculpture is the branch

HISTORY Sculpture ART HISTORY.

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is one of the plastic arts. Working in three dimensions, throughout history sculptors have worked to shape marble, bronze, wood, and other materials into incredible forms. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials. Then the sculpture is a threedimensional volume that highlights the tactile qualities. Juan Muñoz, a narrator sculptor

Variety of techniques, carving (the removal of material) and modeling (the addition of material, as clay) the most important. Variety of materials such as stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other. In the 20 th century materials will be free from the dictatorship of form and they emerged as absolutely free. Variety of topics in every style from classical Greece until abstraction of 20 th century. Rodin, The Kiss Brancusi, The kiss

• • • Elements of sculpture Form: three dimensional shape. Colour: the actual colour of the material being used. Line (focal point), point of emphasis that the eye is directed to in sculpture. Volume: mass/space. Balance: ordered relationship of parts (symmetrical or asymmetrical). Proportion: elements compared in terms of size, quantity and degree of emphasis. Movement Light/shadows on the surface of forms. Perspective: background landscape. Texture: the surface quality of a form (rough, smooth…) Topic, a large variety of topics. Style: artistic styles based on repetition of forms. Gianbologna, The Rape of the Sabine Women, 1583

Examples Venus of Willendorf 24000 BC Peplos Kore 530 BC The Winged Victory of Samothrace 190 BC 5

West portal of Chartres Cathedral (1145) Donatello, David 1440 s, Bargello Museum, Florence 6

Details Michelangelo, David, 1504 Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Apollo and Daphne in the Galleria Borghese, 1622– 1625 7

David, Cinquecento 1504, Michelangelo Neoplatonism, David is shown just before he throws the stone The face expresses contained anger Anatomy detailed David is the ideal man of the Renaissance: beautiful, strong and rational 8

Antonio Canova: Psyche Revived by Love's Kiss, 1787 Auguste Rodin, The Thinker, 1902 9

Henry Moore, Large Reclining Figure, 1984 Constantin Brâncuși, Portrait of Mademoiselle Pogany 1912 10

Rachel Harrison, Alexander the Great, 2007 Auguste Rodin, The Burghers of Calais, 1894– 85 11

The Terracotta Army, 210– 209 BC Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel, 1913 12

Break Through From Your Mold By Zenos Frudakis, Philadelphia People Of The River By Chong Fah Cheong, Singapore Hippo Sculptures, Taipei Spider, Tate Modern, London 13

Les Voyageurs, Marseilles 14

RODIN in Madrid 15

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