A brief introduction to sculpture and the different mediums and manifestations of it, including kinetic, bas-relief, carvings, readymade, bronze casting, contructions, installations, earthworks, and more. Based on the textbook, "Gateways to Art" (Thames and Hudson: 2012).

1. SCULPTURE
ARTS 1301.51007
T, R, 1:30PM-2:50PM
Professor Paige Prater

2. Sculpture
• Free-standing: in the round
• Relief: bas-relief OR high relief

3. Sculpture Methods: Subtractive OR
Additive
• Casting
– Lost-wax
– patina
• Carving
• Modeling
• Earthworks
– Monumental
• Construction
– Constructivist movement, Soviet Union
• Readymade
• Kinetic
• Light
• Installation

4. Bronze Casting: Lost-Wax
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVe3VeQfyzw
• Additive
• 7 steps!

5. Bronze Casting: Ancient
Greek
• Discovered in
1972 by scuba
divers
• Perfection ideal
Riace Warrior A, c. 450 BCE. Bronze,
6’6” high. National Museum, Reggio
Calabria, Italy

6. Carving: Stone, wood, etc.
• Drill, chip, whittle, or saw away
material; sand, polish…
• Position
• Granite block
• Sculpture of the Lady Sennuwy, 1971–1926 BCE.
Granite, 67 x 45¾ x 18½”. Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston. Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine
Arts Expedition

7. Carving: in
the round
Giambologna, Rape of a
Sabine, 1583. Marble,
13’6” high. Loggia
dei Lanzi, Piazza della
Signoria, Florence, Italy

8. Carving: Bas-Relief
• Shallow
• One-sided
Dying Lioness, limestone relief from the North Palace of
Ashurbanipal, Nineveh, Assyrian period, c. 650 BCE.
British Museum, London, England

9. Carving: High-Relief
• DEEP
incisions
• One-sided
Susan Durant, Memorial to King Leopold of the Belgians, 1867, in Christ Church, Esher,
England

10. Sculpture: Modeling
• Additive
• Clay
• plasticity
• Armature
sometimes
• 4 separate
pieces
Sarcophagus from Cerveteri, c. 520 BCE. Painted terracotta, 3’9½” x 6’7”. Museo
Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome, Italy

11. Sculpture: Kinetic
• Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSKyHmjy
rkA
• Ted Talk with Theo Jansen
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b694exl_o
Zo

12. Sculpture: Earthworks
Great Serpent Mound, c. 800 BCE–100 CE, 1330 x 3’, Locust Grove, Adams County, Ohio. SUMMER SOLSTICE

13. Sculpture: Earthworks
• Collaborative
• Monumental
• Ancient Americas
• Robert Smithson,
Spiral Jetty (1970)
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=NUu0_Zn55yM

14. Sculpture: Readymade
• Found objects
• artifacts
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917. Replica
(original lost). Porcelain urinal, 12 x 15 x
18”. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Louise
and Walter Arensberg Collection

15. Sculpture: Construction
• Standardized, engineered materials
• Concept: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDuzy-t7GDA&list=PL42AF5A9C1415F64D&index=19
Damien Hirst, The
Physical Impossibility
of Death in the Mind
of Someone Living,
1991. Glass, steel,
silicon, formaldehyde
solution, and shark,
7’1½” x 17’9⅜” x
5’10⅞”

16. Sculpture: Constructivism
• Constructivists
saw art as a
scientific
investigation of
social needs at
the time
Naum Gabo, Constructed Head No.
2, 1916. Cor-ten steel, 69 × 52¾ ×
48¼”. Tate, London, England

17. Sculpture: Light
• Adela Andea
http://www.adelaandea.com/index.html
• Lazlo Maholy-Nagy: merged
light, performance, and
movement
Olafur Eliasson, Remagine, 2002. Spotlights,
tripods, or wall mounts, control unit,
dimensions variable. Installation at
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, 2004

18. Sculpture: Installation
• Assembled objects
• environment
Antony Gormley, Asian Field, 2003. 210,000 hand-sized clay elements,
installation view, warehouse of former Shanghai
No. 10 Steelworks, China