Art Appreciation La Delta: November 2011

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Sculpture

Obus by Alexander Calder. 1972. (painted sheet metal) height 142-1/2"

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Apollo. 415 B.C. Greek silver coin. diameter 1-1/8" (example of low relief sculpture)

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Corporate Wars: Wall of Influence by Robert Longo. 1982. (middle portion, cast aluminum) height 7'
example of high relief sculpture

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Ballplayer with Three-Part Yoke & Bird Headress. Maya Late Classic Period. 650-850 B.C. (pottery, polychrome) height 13-1/2"

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California Artist by Robert Arneson. 1982. (stoneware with glazes) height 68-1/4"

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Self-Portrait by Charles Ray. 1990. (mixed media, including cast polyvinyl resin) height 75"

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Awakening Slave by Michaelangelo. 1530-1534. (marble) height 9' (one of four figures, later called Slaves, left unfinished)

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Massive Stone Head. 12th-10th centuries B.C. Olmec. Basalt. Height 65". Veracruz, Jalapa, Mexico.

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Mother and Child #2 by Elizabeth Catlett. 1971. (walnut) height 38"

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Bodhisattva Guanyin, Chinese sculpture. (wood & paint) example of joined-block construction, a technique developed by the Chinese.

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Maternity by Julio Gonzalez. 1934. (welded iron)

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The Montserrat by Julio Gonzalez. 1936-37. (sheet iron)

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Nahele by Deborah Butterfield. 1986. (scrap metal) 76" x 102" x 39"

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Bull's Head by Pablo Picasso. 1943. (bronze: seat & handles of bicycle)

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Untitiled by Alexander Calder. 1976. (painted aluminum & tempered steel) Nat'l Gallery of Art, D.C.

Sculpture

vocabulary: freestanding (in-the-round), low relief (bas-relief), high relief, modeling (manipulative & additive), casting (substitution or replacement process), armature, mold, original work (pattern), lost wax process, carving (subtractive process), assembling (assemblage), construction, mobile, kinetic sculpture, installation; open form, closed form (& all vocabulary from beginning of semester)

Images:
Apollo (Greek coin); Corporate Wars; California Artist; Self-Portrait by Charles Ray; Massive Stone Head (Olmec); Mother & Child (Catlett); Bodhisattva Guanyin; Maturity; The Montserrat; Deborah Butterfield's work; Bull's Head; Untitled by Calder.

TEST #3 (read carefully!) Sculpture, to Bronze Age

TEST #2 is over Drawing, Painting, Printmaking:
La Delta - Test #3 Wednesday, 11/09/11
St. Frederick's High School - Test #3 Thursday, 11/10/11

Questions to consider:
What's the difference between bas-relief and high relief? What are examples?
What are the tradition methods of sculpting?
What is the difference between modeling & casting?
What did Robert Arneson consider all art to be?
Why did Arneson create California Artist?
What are the advantages of casting?
What is another name for casting?
What is a mold? What happens in the lost wax process?
Most monuments in public parks are cast in what?
Polyvinyl resin can be made to resemble what?
Carving is also called what? "Releasing the form from within the block" is said to be what sculptor's process?
What are the basic sculptural methods? What are the characteristics of marble, basalt, walnut, schist, & jade? Who used these? What are examples?
What wood carving problem did the Chinese solve?
What is a found object, a ready-made, & an assemblage? What artist's work is an example of these? What is kinetic sculpture?

What are the differences between Paleolithic & Neolithic art?
Where are the oldest known paintings found? What is a petroglyph? Where did the New Stone Age seem to occur first? What art is characteristic of Paleolithic? What piece of art is an example of this? What does the term civilization refer to? Where were the four fertile river valleys? What are the differences between Mesopotamia & Egypt? Who named the broad plain between the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers? Who developed the world's first writing, the wheel, the plow? What is a ziggurat? What do we know of the Sumerian court life & art by studying the Lyre? What are the scenes on the upper & lower panel believed to be scenes from? The stylized Head of an Akkadian Ruler was influenced by whom? The Great Pyramids were built of stone blocks without what? What Egyptian architect designed the Funerary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut? What is the purpose of the pyramids? What characterizes Egyptian sculpture? Why is Tutankhamen one of the best known Egyptian rulers today? What makes the Mask from Mummy Case of the Tomb of Tutankhamen distinctively Egyptian? How did Egyptian artists portray the body? What is meant by hierarchic scale? What is an example? What art did Egyptian art influence?