Contemporary Sculpture Flashcards
is an art form that requires of the artist creative use of balance, skill in the use
of materials, and physical strength.
Sculpture
For many centuries, the common subject matter was
human figure
harried artist is in the alternate role of domestic cook struggling with a fish frying in
a pan while a cat lolls by and a saltimbanque cooly stands guard.
Julie Lluch
The artist asked
herself, "The so-called natural order of things isn't so natural at all. Commonplace things
appear questionable Is woman's place really in the home?" After three decades of art-
making, she concludes that her works "are not so much about political and social
upheaval but spring from a personal revolution adopting a spiritual perspective that is
eternal and supreme."
Julie Lluch:
who was the artist who interpretation of freedom of
expression. His hair and beard have become fiery as the Chinese artist's radical and
revolutionary mind. His eyes are like the Dragon's pearls, seeing, thinking, and
interpreting ideas in a very clear way.
Ai Wei Wei
is the favorite subject matter of sculptor Abdulmari Imao.
Sarimanok
He was proclaimed National Artist for Sculpture in 2006. In his nomination papers, Imao
is described as having helped Tausugs, Maranaos, Cordillerans, T'bolis, and other
indigenous peoples "develop their art by introducing techniques and promote efficiency
and economy in the use of indigenous materials in all aspects of the brass making
process, as in the making of moulds and ornamentation"
Abdul Imao:
The Sarimanok is the favorite subject matter of sculptor
Abdul Imao:
are done in ways most suitable to the available material. Stone
can only be carved, drilled, abraded, and polished.
Sculptural processes
lends itself to the same
processes more easily although modern technology permits it to be permanently bent
and molded.
wood
disadvantages of wood lie in its dimensional instability-its tendency to —– or —-
warp or crack
is appealing for its grain, its color, and its origin in a living tree.
Wood
are combined with plastic binders so that they can be
modeled and assembled by welding, soldering, and riveting, or with adhesives.
powdered metals
his Sarimanok with & Fishes (see p. 55) is done in brass standing on wood base.
With the skillful use of brass and an excellent understanding of balance,
Abdulmari
Imao
can be cast, cut, drilled, filled, extruded, bent, forged, and stamped.
Metals
is able to
make a vertical sculpture dominated by curve lines that smoothly flow from one element
to the next. This diffuses the weight and makes the sculpture look light.
Abdulmari
Imao
or clay is more responsive than wood or stone.
Terracotta
it possesses little strength in tension or compression and requires an armature for support.
Terracotta
It is not very permanent and can easily be
changed or damaged in handling. It can also be deformed when exposed to heat.
wax
has beautiful surface and color characteristics and is the most common casting
material.
Bronze
is not in itself a permanent material. If fired, it is subject to the size limitations of a kiln and a variety of engineering considerations.
Clay
who is the Iligan artist who created an example of a sculpture in terracotta painted with acrylic. It is a good medium to
use to express the artist's state of mind amidst domestic work which prevented her from
making artworks.
Julie Lluch
is becoming popular in the Philippines. It is used by many installation artists and
sculptors.
Resin
Af Weiwei busts are made of
resin
is a Chinese contemporary artist known for his political activitism. He
has openly criticized the Chinese government and its stance for human rights
and has been apprehended and jailed in Beijing.
Ai Weiwei
Four Basic Sculpture Techniques
Modeling.
Carving,
Casting
Assembling.
these sculptures are created when a soft or malleable material such
as clay, is built using an armature and then shaped to create a form.
Modeling
is an additive process. An example is the portrait sculpture of Batanes-born artist Pacita Abad done by Iligan artist Julie Lluch.
Modeling
the lower body part is relaxed, her
legs seem to be in a pose that is "ready to go," in her clogs shoes, which is
characteristic of
Pacita
involves cutting or chipping away a shape from a mass of
stone, wood, or other hard material.
Carving
is a subtractive process where the
material is systematically eliminated from the outside.
Carving
The process calls for a
conception of the result before the work is begun.
Carving
what do you call an artost that subtracts non-
essential material to form an image from the block of marble, wood, or stone.
carver
The carver subtracts non-
essential material to form an image from the block of —-, —–, or ——-
marble, wood, or stone
An
example of wood carving is jeepneys and cars by
Franco Cagayat's
When a sculpture is formed using terracotta clay, it is made permanent
through the plaster of Paris.
Casting
Casting it in —— or —— accurately reproduces
the form from an original clay or wax model.
bronze or metal
known as the "Father of Philippine Glass Sculpture.
Ramon Orlina
It is durable, can be transported
without breaking, and can also be duplicated.
Casting
it is when Sculptors gather and put together different materials, including found objects to create an assembled sculpture.
Assembling.
is an additive process using adhesive, welding, and other chemicals for adhesion.
An example is Josephine Turalba's General Mariana.
Assembling
5 Styles and Movements in Sculpture
Monolithic Sculpture
Constructivism
Sculptural assemblage
Kinetic sculpture
Niches, Boxes, and Grottoes
is carved from a slab of stone and is limited by the material's shape and size.
Monolithic Sculpture
This means that the sculptor can only make a form that is
allowed by the material's shape and cannot exceed its size. Neither can the
sculptor produce complex open forms and shapes where arms and legs are
stretched.
Monolithic Sculpture
He embedded
thousands of nails on wood and painted the form with acrylic.
Lucell
Larawan
Lucell
Larawan's Prostrate is an example of this type of sculpture.
Monolithic Sculpture
and allows a break from
the figurative representation of sculpture.
Constructivism
is popular among contemporary artists. It makes use of new
materials such as plastics, plexiglass, metal wire, etc.,
Constructivism
abstraction, transparency, the interpenetration of sculptural form,
overlapping of planes, and the employment of lines in tension to describe
direction and movement. these are main traits of?
Constructivism
provides a method to the contemporary artist that
abandons carving, modeling, and casting. Several forms of found objects,
including "metal (wire, pipe, sheet, rod, spring, tube, bar, and plate) are put
together through a single method of attachment: welding: and a single color and
surface texture.
Sculptural assemblage
She created a variety of texture by putting together pieces of
aluminum, brass, stones, and diamonds collected from hundreds of broken
shoes, belts and bags, covering the inner layer of a fiber glass cast.
Michelle Hollanes Lua
which artist used plastic tubes that are shaped like giant animals that can walk along the beach?
Theo Jansen
is a sculpture in mechanical motion. When they are suspended
in the air, they can produce musical sounds as the elements move with the wind
and touch each other.
Kinetic sculpture
They are constructed vertically to interact with the wind
and are designed to accommodate the movement of the viewers who interact
with the kinetic sculptures.
Kinetic sculpture
his sculptures are set into motion by machine and generators that
enable the objects to move up and down or left to right while producing sound.
Gabby Barredo
is a recessed place in a wall where a sculptured figure or bust can be located. It
is important to think of niche sculptures as "born from" walls, conceived out of necessity
to endow plane surfaces with dramatic meaning.
niche
encloses forms physically
and governs the angle of vision from which the sculpture can be seen.
niche
Psychologically,
the sculpture is "protected" by its enclosure, it is removed from full exposure to the
elements and can thus be perceived as something which requires shelter.
niche
he used "scapulars buried in wax." Underneath is a figure whose head and
hand are exposed, followed by a crown of thorns surrounded by flowers.
Renato Habula
are closed and can become packages, a portable container for something worth
keeping. They are distinguished by their careful craftsmanship and connection. to
something.
Boxes
is not associated with the wall and is more like a room. It relates instead to the vault or convoluted inner spaces of natural caverns.
Grotto
symbolize the way Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) accumulate things to
send to their family left behind in the Philippines.
balikbayan boxes
also contain old things that symbolize sentimentality.
Some people keep things until they are worn out and no longer functional because
these have sentimental value to them.
Aquilizan boxes
The shaping of interior space
resembles a hybrid form of sculpture and architecture.
Grotto
presents a neat arrangement of staircases and cubes in one of the spaces that once
served as a stud farm for the herd of horses.
Grotto
