Art & Music + Special Area: The Stuff that Dreams Are Remade Of Flashcards
what did butter sculpting originate from?
banquet art
Renaissance & Baroque periods
earliest reference to butter art
1536
Bartolomeo Scappi’s sculptures - elephant, tableau of Hercules fighting a lion
Caroline Shawk Brooks
an American sculptor born in 1840
gained fame for her butter sculptures
Caroline’s butter sculpture was cased in….
ice
what traditional tools did Caroline usually use for her butter sculptures
butter paddles
broom straws
“camel’s hair pencil”
how did Caroline’s traditional tools help her?
They allowed her to craft extremely detailed sculptures
One of Caroline Brooks’ most notable sculptures in her 1873 creation
“Dreaming Lolanthe”
depicts Lolanthe, a blind princess from the drama, ‘King Rene’s daughter’
Dreaming Lolanthe - exhibition place & number of visitors
Cincinnati
over 2000 visitors
additional sculptures of Lolanthe
1876 -> a bas-relief (shallow) for the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia
full size sculpture of Lolanthe, shipped to Paris for the 1879 World’s Fair
what materials did Erika Iris Simmons use
old books
cassette tapes
cards
magazines
effect of Simmons’ use of older materials
brings nostalgia
themes of renewal
Erika Simmons - Ghost in the Machine
famous celebrities portrayed using magnetic ribbons from cassette tapes
figures portrayed in “Ghose in the Machine”
Marilyn Monroe
Bob Dylan
Robert De Niro
Simmons’ choice of cassette tapes
connection with the figure
(e.g: actors - portrayed with film tapes)
MISSA - date
1992 - 2012
MISSA - description
piece consisting of 100 army boots
created with mono- filament & metal grid
where was MISSA displayed
Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal collection
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
MISSA - title’s origin
Latin - “To be sent”
MISSA - message
army boots uniformly arranged -> soldiers are treated as identical entities
portrays them as puppets of the totalitarian regime
dehumanizing aspects of war
photogrammetry
technique involving thousands of photos digitally combined in 3D
earliest rock art - date
133 - 433 AD
why might we only know small portions of rock art
pigments can disappear
rocks may crumble
what might aid in the discovery of ancient stencil art?
digital manipulation of images
(e.g: Reflectance Transformation Imaging)
RTI - achievements
discovered an engraved Bison in El Castillo
seeing through calcium deposits to uncover unseen art
Leang Timpuseng cave - location
Maros Pankep, Suwalesi, Indonesia
Leang Timpuseng cave - discoveries
second oldest cave paintings were discovered
art inside Leang Timpesung - date
37,900 BC
OLDEST cave painting in the world
El Castillo paintings - 39,000 BC
Leang Timpuseng cave - techniques used
Uranium decay technique
(using Uranium & thorium)
Leang Timpuseng cave - discovered date & finder
July 1857
Alfred Wallace