3.2 SCULPTURE

Question 1

It is the creation of three-dimensional figures, forms or designs from a single block mass of materials
- Dictionary : “act, process, or art of carving, engraving, cutting, hewing, molding, and welding or constructing materials into statues, ornaments, or figures”

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Sculpture

Question 2

Types of sculpture

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Sculpture in relief
Sculpture in the round

Question 3

carving or molding which projects from the background plane and is usually attached to the wall or material.

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Sculpture in relief

Question 4

free standing sculpture that can be seen from all sides.

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Sculpture in the round

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Example of sculpture in relief

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Orpheus and Eurydice
Design on coins (a bas relief or low relief)

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Example of sculpture in the round

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Michaelangelo’s “David.”

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Two Sculptural Modelling Techniques

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Subtractive
Additive

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process of cutting away from a block of wood or stone and gradually revealing the desired shape

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Subtractive

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method of clay modeler who adds lumps of clay to a core and works out the desired shape

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Additive

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The two commonly used medium in sculpture

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Stone and metal

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Hard and durable, weather and fire resistant, but is heavy and breakable

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Stone

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Examples of stones:

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Basalt ad diorite
Marble
Granite
Limestone

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Stone:
Black and hard

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Basalt and Diorite

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Stone:
Finely0grained, with crystalline sparkle. It is used becaused of its high polish and translucence is the most beautiful

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Marble

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Stone:
Tough, coarse-grained but suitable for bold effects

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Granite

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Stone:
Soft but it does not make it well polished

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Limestone

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lighter, softer and cheaper, and easy to cut, but with the vanishing forests, it is now not readily available

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Wood

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which means “baked earth” is made by firing clay, as in pottery making. The clay is shaped, glazed and baked

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Terra Cotta

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solid and too expensive. In ancient times, bronze was the most commonly used metal, but is now replaced by forged iron, steel, aluminum and glass.

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Bronze

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Bronze disadvantage:

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Intricate and difficult process of casting

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Sculptural concepts

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Pictorial sculpture
Sculpturesque sculpture
Built-up sculpture

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the artist, like a painter, is more concerned with details than anything else

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Pictorial sculpture

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the artist is more concerned with the medium/materials used, its strength and solidity, its surface quality, and its tactile value.

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Sculpturesque sculpture

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the artist is not only much concerned with the medium/materials used but also with the details.

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Built-up sculpture

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Example of built-up sculpture

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Pieta

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The object presented

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must be shown as belonging to the whole body.

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The aesthetic sculpture requires that every statue

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should be made of only one material

Question 28

When more than one individual is presented, the _________________________________________, to give the artwork the projection of unity.

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figure must be in contact with one another

Question 29

When the primary purpose is beauty of the body, the ________________________________ The figure should preferably be partly or wholly undraped. If drapery is used, it should show the body underneath

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pose should project grace, strength, and vigor.

Question 30

The presentation of the inner life (i.e. mind or emotion) __________________________________________(i.e. human body). This is the reason for the inexpressive faces of statues made during the Greek’s Classical Period.

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is subjected to the presentation of the physical beauty

Question 31

As a general rule, the _____________________________, and not the old deformed or crippled

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sculptor’s choice is the young