1. Clay Modeling
Surreal and Grotesque

2. Salvador Dali Lobster Telephone 1938

3. Salvador Dali
Persistence of Memory
1931
oil on canvas

4. Objectives Create a surreal or grotesque sculpture.
Effectively use art elements and principles of design to create a sculpture with clay.(juxtapose)
Consider craftsmanship and attention to detail when creating your sculpture.
Create a sculpture using the additive process of modeling and subtractive process of carving.
Use references looking at actual objects and create several sketches and/or maquettes (small models) to work out ideas.

5. Relevant terms: Surreal Incongruous Grotesque Metamorphosis Modeling
Additive
Maquette
Freestanding

6. Relevant Art Elements and Principles
Form
Texture
Color
Proportion/Scale
Balance
Unity
Variety
Contrast

7. Surrealism Art and literature movement which began in the 1920s and combined dream-like or seemingly odd elements together “Surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of experience so completely that the world of dream and fantasy would be joined to the everyday rational world in ‘an absolute reality, a surreality’."

8. Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach by Salvador Dalí, 1938.

9. Cabinet Anthropomorphique
Salvador Dali
Cabinet Anthropomorphique
Bronze

11. Claes Oldenburg, Dropped Cone, 2001
The term, Funk, was coined in 1966 by Peter Selz for a show at the University of California Art Museum in Berkeley, California.  The implied meaning was something common, dopey, stupid or low.  Shows of Funk Art were often met with the question, "What, you call this Art?" 
They were inspired by the Pop Art movement. For example, they looked to the work of Claes Oldenburg
Oldenburg, Clothespin
Centre Square Plaza, Fifteenth and Market streets, Philadelphia
Cor-Ten and stainless steels
45 ft. x 12 ft. 3 in. x 4 ft. 6 in. (13.7 x 3.7 x 1.4 m)
Claes Oldenburg, Dropped Cone,  2001

12. David Gilhooly. Burger for Two. 2008. Ceramic. 8 x 4 x 4 in.
David Gilhooly Tall Sundaes 1978

13. David Gilhooly FrogFry with Bacon and Eggs 1985
David Gilhooly is a well-known sculptor, who is recognized primarily for his ceramic sculpture of animals, food, planets and the FrogWorld.  A graduate of the University of California at Davis (BA, 1965 MA, 1967), he and his friends, working in TB-9 were what was later to be called, The Funk Ceramic Movement of the San Francisco Bay Area.
David Gilhooly FrogFry with Bacon and Eggs 1985

14. Robert Arneson, Bob at Rest, 1981, Glazed ceramic, 39 x 26 x 12"

15. Robert Arneson self portrait

16. Jack Earle
It's the clothes that make the man

17. Grotesque: Since at least the 18th century, grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, fantastic, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting. It defies the notions of art as beautiful.

18. Gargoyles of Notre Dame

21. Clay Vocabulary Define each term in your journal.
The stages of clay:
1. Slip
2. Plastic
3. Leather-hard
4. Greenware or bone dry
5. Bisqueware
6. Glazeware
Other clay terms:
Clay
Reclaiming
Wedging
Kiln
Firing
Score
Glaze

22. Vocab: Surreal: a mix between real & fantasy; bizarre
Incongruous: not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings or other aspects of something
Grotesque: comically or repulsively ugly or distorted
Metamorphosis: changing from one state to another
Juxtapositioning: Two oppisite elements placed next to each other
Additive: the style of adding material to the work
Maquette: small scale model; rough draft
Freestanding: unattached to a supporting element or background (sculpture)