SculptureWhat is Sculpture?

Three-dimensional - Having, or appearing to have, height, width, and depth

A three-dimensional work of art, or the art of making it.

Sculptures can also be described as:1. In the round2. Relief3. Assemblage

Media may be:clay, wax, stone, metal, fabric, wood, plaster, rubber, and found objects.

Materials may be:carved, modeled, molded, cast, wrought, welded, sewn, or assembled and combined.

Elements of Sculptural Design

The two principal elements of sculpture are mass and space. Mass refers to the sculpture's bulk, the solid bit contained

within its surfaces. Space is the air around the solid sculpture,

and reacts with the latter

Principles of Sculptural Design

These regulate the approach of sculptors to such matters as

orientation, proportion, scale, articulation and balance.

Additive - Sculptural form produced by combining or

building up material from a core or armature

Methods

Subtractive - involves removing material, as in wood carving or

stone sculpture

Mixed Media – using multiple materials

Sculptures can be

Realistic

Abstract

Non-Objective

Realism: The realistic and natural representation of people, places, and/or things in a work of art.

Abstract: departing from representational accuracy, to a variable range of possible degrees, for some reason other than verisimilitude (Appearing to be true or real). Abstract artists select and then exaggerate or simplify the forms suggested by the world around them.

Non-objective: Artworks having no recognizable subject matter (not recognizable as such things as houses, trees, people, etc.)

Types of Sculpture

Free-standing sculpture, to be viewed from all sides, which is surrounded on all sides by space

In-The-Round

1. Bas-Relief: A French term meaning "low-raised work.“

Types of Sculpture

2. Alto-relievo: another name for high relief

Relief sculpture

3. Intaglio: hollow-relief, describes an image that is carved into a flat surface

Types of Sculpture

Types of SculptureAssemblage

A three-dimensional composition made of various materials such as found objects, paper, wood, and textiles.