Sculpture

TRADITIONAL
 Medium

MEDIUM IS THE MATERIAL THAT AN ARTIST HAS USED TO

CREATE THE WORK
 Wood
Just some of
Stone
the
materials Bronze
used in the
production Clay
of
Plaster
sculptures
Steel/Fiberglass/Mixed Media
Sculpture uses a variety
of materials and What is the Lost Wax
methods. Several are What is the takeaway Method?
listed here and will method in sculpture?
relate to the sculptures What is Bronze Casting?
in the PDF

How does an artist blow How is Fiberglass or

glass? Resin Used ?
Takeaway Method

 Michelangelo "The Pieta" 1498 -1499

 What is "The Pieta"? Click this link to find
out what "The Pieta" is all about.
 How did Michelangelo make his
sculptures? Click this link to find out!
 A look at some unfinished
Michelangelo's Click this link to see the
article
Takeaway Example

 "Winged Victory of Samothrace"

Nike (The Winged Goddess of Victory)
200 - 190 BCE

 What is this sculpture? Nike

 youtube video on Nike
 What is it made of?
 What method did the artist use?
Bronze Cast

 "Youth from Antikythera"

 340 BCE
 attributed to a Peloponnesian workshop and could
be the work of Euphranor from Corinthian Sicyon

 For the full-size statue click here

 How a Bronze is made click here
Carving Wood

 Grinling Gibbons (1648 – 1721)

 Dutch Woodcarver working in England during the
Baroque period
 Carved decorations for stately homes all over
England (ex. Windsor Castle)
 Top: Cravat How it’s Made
 Bottom: The Carved Room at Petworth House
THIS IS WHERE YOU
COULD SEE
Contemporary
Sculpture
ANYTHING!
  For a detailed description
of Installation Art, start
here at the Tate Gallery in
London, England.

Installation  Think about how the

different elements play a
Art role in the following
installations.
 https://www.tate.org.uk/ar
t/art-terms/i/installation-art
Yayoi Kusama
 Known for her
installations, this
Japanese artist has
created temporary
and permanent
installations all over the
world.
 What materials does
she use in her
installation work?
 https://www.tate.org.u
k/kids/explore/who-
is/who-yayoi-kusama
Ai Weiwei
 https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/ai-sunflower-seeds-
t13408
 Chinese artist and dissident, Ai Weiwei has completed
installations all over the world
 Toronto Star coverage of the Art Gallery of Ontario
exhibition of his work
 https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/visualarts/2013/
08/14/ai_weiwei_merges_art_and_politics_in_ago_show_
review.html
 ‘Sunflower Seeds’ 2010
 Porcelain
 Tate Modern, London UK
 What materials has Ai Weiwei used in his installation?
 Judy Chicago
 American Installation artist
 Known for her most famous
work ‘The Dinner Party’
 https://smarthistory.org/judy-
chicago-the-dinner-party/
 ‘The Dinner Party’ 1974 -79
 Mixed Media
 Brooklyn Museum
 There are many materials
used in this installation – how
was this created and what
materials and methods were
used?
Public Art
John McEwen
‘Boat Site’
1984
Ottawa
 Public Art
 What is the definition of
public art?
 What are the materials used
and what considerations do
you think need to be made in
a public installation of this
kind?
 ‘Uniform, Measure/ Stack’
1987
 Stephen Cruise
 Corner of Richmond &
Spadina Ave, Toronto (Old
Garment District)
Public Art
 ‘Monument to the War of 1812’
 2008
 Douglas Coupland
 Bathurst St & Lakeshore, Toronto,
adjacent to Old Fort York
 What are the materials used and what
considerations do you think need to be
made in a public installation of this
kind?
 https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainm
ent/coupland-creates-statue-to-mark-
war-of-1812-1.717530
John McEwen
 Simcoe County artist John McEwen is an
internationally known artist and has received
the Order of Canada for his contribution to the
arts
 The three-column steel sculpture “Search Light,
Star Light, Spot Light” (1998) in front of the Air
Canada Centre, is inspired by a quote from
author Louis Untermeyer, (1885-1977): “God, if
you wish for our love, Fling us a handful of
stars.”
 For information about McEwen's thoughts on
public art click here
 A link to his current exhibition
 What are the materials used and what
considerations do you think need to be
made in a public installation of this kind?
Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen

"Buried Bicycle"
1990

 For more information on the

project, click here
 For more examples of the work
of Claes Oldenburg
and Coosje van Bruggen, click here
 What are the materials used and what
considerations do you think need to be
made in a public installation of this
kind?
Anonymouse
 Lund Sweden
 https://www.thisiscoloss
al.com/2020/08/anony
mouse-miniatures/
Ron Mueck

 “Crouching Boy”
 1999 - 2000
 For a YouTube video of the artist at
work, click here
 To look at the work, click here
 What are the materials that Mueck
uses to create his sculptures?
Glass
Blowing

 One of the worlds most renowned

Glass Blowers Dale Chihuly's work is
large, extravagant and colourful
 To explore his work, click here
 What are the methods used to create
blown glass?