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Art Appreciation Ch. 13 (2012) Journal PowerPoint Sculpture
Art Appreciation Ch. 13
(2012) Journal PowerPoint
Sculpture
Name and briefly describe the 7 (or 8)
sculptural processes included in this
chapter.
• Carving
• Modeling
• Casting
• Assemblage
• Installation and Site-Specific Art
• Earthworks
• Performance Art as Living Sculpture
What process (from question #1)
do you think would work best if you
wanted to make sculpture of a
person with extremely long, thin
arms projecting away from the
body?
Casting
What is the term to
describe a weight shift
or S-curve in a figural
sculpture?
Contrapposto
PRAXITELES FOLLOWER
Hermes and the Infant Dionysos
ca 300-250 B.C.
attributed by Pausanias
Differentiate relief sculpture
from sculpture in-the-round.
How is installation art
different from other
sculptural works?
Installation: An environment
that is indoors (or outdoors, a
space transformed artistically)
Installation art: Sculptural and
other materials introduced into
a space in order to transform
our experience of it (the
space).
James Turrell
"The Light Inside"
1999
Electric lights, wires,
metal and paint, site-
specific permanent
installation at The
Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston, Texas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjRMs0izHSE
The Light Inside
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Judy Pfaff, 3D, 1983
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
Nancy Rubins,
Pleasure Point,
2006, MOCA, San
Diego
Additional… Would you visit Lightning Field?
The Lightning Field, 1977, by the American sculptor Walter De
Maria, is a work of Land Art situated in a remote area of the high
desert of western New Mexico. It is comprised of 400 polished
stainless steel poles installed in a grid array measuring one mile
by one kilometer. The poles—two inches in diameter and
averaging 20 feet and 7½ inches in height—are spaced 220 feet
apart and have solid pointed tips that define a horizontal plane.
A sculpture to be walked in as well as viewed, The Lightning
Field is intended to be experienced over an extended period of
time. A full experience of The Lightning Field does not depend
upon the occurrence of lightning, and visitors are encouraged to
spend as much time as possible in the field, especially during
sunset and sunrise. In order to provide this opportunity, Dia
offers overnight visits during the months of May through
October.
In terms of performance art, what could possibly supersede Licking Jam off a Car Hood? Fig. 13-42
EARTHWORK: The Great Serpent Mound is a 1,330-foot-long, three-foot-high prehistoric effigy mound located on a plateau of
the Serpent Mound crater along Ohio Brush Creek in Adams County, Ohio. Ceremoniail purpose? No burials here. Including all three
parts, the Serpent Mound extends about 1,370 feet (420 m), and varies in height from less than a foot to more than three feet (30–
100 cm). Conforming to the curve of the land on which it rests, with its head approaching a cliff above a stream, the serpent winds
back and forth for more than eight hundred feet and seven coils, and ends in a triple-coiled tail. The serpent head has an open mouth
extending around the east end of a 120-foot-long hollow oval feature. Scholars posit that the oval feature symbolizes an egg, the sun,
the body of a frog, or merely the remnant of a platform. It has also been interpretated as being an eclipse. The effigy's extreme
western feature is a triangular mound approximately 31.6 feet (9.6 m) at its base and long axis.
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