1. Sculpture

2. Outline
What is Sculpture?
Sculptural Techniques
Materials/ mediums use in sculpture
Characteristics of the Materials
Sculptural Concerns

3. Sculpture
Sculpture comes from Latin word “Sculpere” – meaning to carve. It refers to the creation of three-dimensional figures, forms designs from a single block mass of materials.
Sculpture may be the oldest of the arts.

4. Sculpture There are two major sculptural processes:
Subtractive- unwanted materials is cut away
Additive- construction of a figure by putting together.

5. Duane Hanson Tourists, 1970
Example of Subtractive sculptural process.

6. Calder
Example of Additive sculptural process
Youtube clip on Calder

7. Louise Nevelson, Dawn's Wedding Chapel IV, from Dawn's Wedding Feast, 1959-60

8. Louise Nevelson, Self-Portrait: Silent Music IV, 1964
Louise Nevelson, Royal Tide I, 1960

9. Louise Nevelson, Title Mirror shadow XXXVII

10. Louise Nevelson, Night Zag XIV

11. Sculptural Techniques
Sculpture is created in four basic ways:
Carving
Modeling
Casting
Construction

12. Sculpture Carving Subtractive process: material is removed
Mainly wood and stone (marble)

13. Sculpture
Modeling
Additive process: material is added to build up a shape
Clay, wax, plaster, paper-mache

14. Sculpture
Casting: a mold is used to form molten bronze(or other material) into a desired shape.

15. Sculpture
Casting: “Lost wax” method or cire-perdue, often used for jewelry or small sculptures

16. Sculpture Construction:
Additive process; welding, gluing, nailing materials together.

17. Sculpture Assemblage: assembling found objects in unique ways.
Joseph Cornell

18. Alexander Calder: the mobile
Sculpture
Kinetic Sculpture: movable parts (wind)
Alexander Calder: the mobile

19. Characteristics of the Materials use in Sculpture

20. Materials use in Sculpture
Stone- hard and durable, weather and fire resistant, but is heavy and durable.
Basalt and Diorite (black and hard)
Marble (finely-grained, with crystalline sparkle)
Granite- (tough, coarse-grained but suitable for bold effects)
Limestone- (Softer)

21. Materials use in Sculpture
Wood- lighter, softer, and cheaper, and easy to cut.
Terra Cotta- which means “ baked earth” is made by firing clay, as in pottery making.
Bronze- is solid and too expensive. The difficult process of casting bronze is one of its disadvantages.

22. Sculptural Concerns
Pictorial Sculpture- the artist, like the painter, is more concerned with details than anything else.
Sculpturesque Sculpture- the artist is more concerned with the medium/materials used.
Built- up- the artist is very much concerned with the medium/materials used but also with details.

23. KINDS OF SCULPTURE

24. Sculpture
Relief: attached to a surface or a background

25. Sculpture Free-standing or full-round.
-free standing sculpture that can be seen from all sides.

26. Sculpture Kinetic and Mobiles
are moving three- dimensional figures, best example are those which are suspended on air.

27. Sculpture
Tools: chisels armature