Chapter 13 11 11 2012 Richard Serra The Matter of Time Possesses both a physical presence and a temporal dimension Sculpture is one of the oldest and most enduring of all the arts Types of Sculputre Carving Modeling Casting Construction Assemblage Installation art Earthworks Sculpture can be either subtractive or additive in nature In subtractive processes the sculptor begins with a mass of material larger than the finished work and removes material or subtracts from the mass until the work achieves its finished form Carving is a subtractive process In additive processes the sculptor builds the work adding material as the work proceeds Modeling construction and assemblage are additive processes Maidens and Stewards Low relief Yu the Great taming the Waters Giovanni da Bologna The Rape of the Sabine Women its is in part the horror of the scene that lends the sculpture its power Craving Michelangelo Atlas Patrocinio Barela Nativity Praxiteles Hermes and Dionysos Created contrapposto or counter balance which resulted in an even greater sense of naturalism and movement Robert Arneson Case of Bottles Rough handmade quality of clay Casting Employs a mold into which some molten material is poured and allowed to harden Auguste Rodin The Burghers of Calais Created from Bronze Nancy Gravs Variability and Repetition of Similar Forms Pays homage to Rodin s Burghters Assemblage is the process of bringing individual objects or pieces together to form a larger whole Luis Jimenez Howl Louise Nevelson Sky Cathedral Robert Gober Untitled Clyde Connell Swap Ritual Eva Hesse Contingent Installation Art that radically introduces sculptural and other materials into a space in order to transform our experience of it Nancy Rubins Pleasure Point Kara Walker Insurrection Her primary tool is the silhouette a form of art that was popularized in the courts of Europe Eleanor Antin Minetta Lane A Ghose Story James Turrell A Frontal Passage Earthworks Larger works that are more our visual experience of it depends on multiple points of view Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty Landscape Made of mud salt crystals rocks and water Nancy Holt Sun Tunnels Holes cut into the walls of the tunnels duplicate the arrangement of the stars in 4 constellations Karent McCoy Considering Mother s Mantel 11 11 2012 11 11 2012
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