Sculpture. Basically this presentation was made to discuss about sculpture in the subject arts. I made this when i am taking up Arts Appreciation. And my teacher is fond of reporting( you feel me?) I hope i can help one or two out there.

1. SCULPTURE
Prepared By: Kerwin D. Palpal

2. What is Sculpture?

3. WHAT ARE THE BASIC
SCULPTURAL TECHNIQUES
Say YES if you agree and NO if you disagree in the statement.
* Is It MODELING? ______
* Is It Fashion? ______
* Is It Mixture? _____
* Is It Carving? _____
* Is It Casting? _____

4. MOVING ON…..
What would be the materials to be used in
Sculpture?
So, at the end of the lesson you can now determine
and identify the materials and types of Sculpture.

5. MATERIALS
 Most of its history, Sculpture has been created using four basic
methods:
- Stone Carving
- Wood Carving
- Bronze Carving, and
- Clay Firing
* Addition to this, a rare type was chryselephantine sculpture, reserved
exclusively for major cult statues.

6. FIRST, STONE SCULPTURE
Probably the earliest form of
monumental sculpture.
Avalokitesvara Boddhisattva Stone
Sculpture(58I-6I8) of the Era of Sui
Dynasty art.

7. JADE SCULPTURE
 The best-known form of hardstone sculpture has been a specialty
of Chinese master craftsmen.
* Chinese attribute important qualities to Jade, includes the
following;
- purity, beauty, longevity, even immortality and sculptures
value jade stones for their lustre, translucent colours and shades.

8. JADE CARVING
Lion and Serpant Jade ornament
Excavated from king of Chu’s tomb Western Han
Dynasty (206 BCE-9 CE)

9. WOOD SCULPTURE
Is the oldest and most continuous
type of sculpture
Wood-carved Statue of Guan Yin
Liao Dynasty (Northern China)
Shanxi Province, China (907-II25)

10. BRONZE SCULPTURE
is a complicated process which was
developed independently in China, South
America and Egypt.
“The Bronze Horseman” (I766-78)
Equistrian statue of Peter the Great,
By Etienne Falconet
Russian Sculpture

11. CLAY SCULPTURE
it is the most plastic of all sculpting methods,
versatile, light, inexpensive, and durable.
Venus of Dolni Vestonice (26,000-24,000 BCE)
Found July I925, buried in a layer of ash in a
region of Czechoslovakia.

12. TYPES OF SCULPTURE
 Free-Standing sculpture- which is surrounded on all sides by
space;and
 Relief sculpture- where the design remains attached to a
background, typically stone or wood.

13. EXAMPLE OF RELIEF SCULPTURE
Gothic Ivory Relief sculpture of the
Passion of Christ(I350-65)
Depicting the Washing of the Feet,
and the Last Supper. Biblical art of
the I4th Century

14. THANK YOU!!!!