SCULPTURE

Contemporary Art
SCULPTURE
• Sculpture is an art of form that requires the artist’s
creative use of balance, skill in the use of materials,
and physical strength. For many centuries, the
common subject matter was the human figure. The
materials limited to marble, metal, and wood.

• Sculpture, an artistic form in which hard or plastic

materials are work into three-dimensional art
objects. The design maybe embodied in freestanding
objects, in reliefs on surfaces, or in environments
ranging from tableaux to contexts that envelop the
spectator.
The Four Basic Sculpture
Techniques
Modeling
• Modeled sculpture are
created when a soft or
malleable material such
as clay is built using an
armature (mature
brace) and then shaped
to create a form
Carving
• It involves cutting or
chipping away a shape
from a block of stone,
wood , or other hard
material.
Casting
• Casting it in bronze or
metal accurately
reproduces the form from
an original or wax model.
It is durable, can be
transported without
breaking and can also be
duplicated
Assembling
• Assembling is an additive
process using adhesive,
welding, and other
chemicals for adhesion.
Style and Movements in
Sculpture
Technology, modern tools, and materials generate new
artistic and sculptural effects that have developed into
different styles and movements.
Monolithic Sculpture
• It is from a slab of stone and is
limited by the material’s shape and
size.

• 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.
Constructivism
• It is popular among
contemporary artists.

• main traits: abstraction,

transparency, interpenetration
of sculptural form, overlapping
of planes, and the employment
of lines in tension to describe
direction and movement.
Sculptural Assemble

Several forms of founds

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.
Kinetic Sculpture

• It is a sculpture in
mechanical motion, when
they are suspended in the
air, they can produce
musical sound as the
elements move with the
wind and touch each other.

• Strong wind can also propel

movement in a sculpture.
Niche

The niche encloses forms

physically and governs the
angle of vision from which
the sculpture can be seen.
Box
• It is closed and can become a package, a portable container for
something worth keeping.

• It is distinguished by its careful craftsmanship and connection to

something.
Grotto
• It is not associated with the wall and is more like a room. It relate
instead to the vault or convoluted inner spaces of natural caverns.
 There are three elements that constitute appreciation of
contemporary art: description, analysis, and interpretation.

ART APPRECIATION