The Cubist style What is relief sculpture Relief

The Cubist style

What is relief sculpture? • Relief is sculpture built up off a flat surface. • High relief has areas raised up to several inches. • Relief is made to be viewed from one direction.

Pablo Picasso • Created the working style called Cubism. • Cubism discards perspective and shows multiple viewpoints at the same time. • Breaks the figure into flat planes. • Inspired by African art, specifically masks.

Louise Nevelson • One of Americas most prominent female artists • Began sculpting by playing with wood scraps from fathers lumber mill. – Makes use of overlapping

Albert Paley • Works in wrought iron • creates organic, curvilinear forms which utilize… – flat forms – overlapping areas – negative space

Found objects and mostly flat planes. . .

Flat planes and multiple levels. . .

Three “cubist” faces. . . Notice how the faces are broken into shapes. . .

Some more stuff. . .

The design problem • Mask must be constructed from all “found” materials (you may provide supplementary material). • You need to use “limited alteration” of your found materials. • Mask must consist of at least three (3) changes of level. • Show use of the cubist approach.

What is “limited alteration” ? • Will be the last 10 points of the project. • The fewer cuts made, the more points earned, however. . . • the grade will be on a sliding scale. – The amount of cutting will be weighed against the quality of the effect it has on the finished piece. – Your justification of the need to cut will count. – Your attempts at other solutions will count.

remember… the Cubist style

Some student work

Chrissy Lapham 2000

Justin Reuffer 2000

Jen Warner 2000