Sculptures can be made of many different materials, bronze, limestone, marble, and clay are a few. Sculptors that make sculptures out of stone like limestone or marble need to be aware of how much resistance it has, how fragile it is, the softness, and other factors that will affect the sculpting process. Sculptors start first be putting their ideas down on paper. They can make a variety of sketches, tweaking their ideas until they come up this the right idea. From the sketch, they then sculpt a small-scale clay model. Using clay they can reform the model until they get the right shape and structure, something they wouldn’t be able to do with stone. With stone, if you take too much away you will never get it back. The Sculpture then makes a plaster model from a silicone mold, which he will use when he creates the full-scale clay model that will then become a plaster model. The plaster full-scale model has a specialized team of crafts persons that only sculpt certain aspects of the plaster model. Finding the perfect block of marble in the mountains of Italy or other marble quarries seems to be quite the feet. The artist needs to find a block of marble that “speaks” to them, the right block for the sculpture that they are making.
Other sculptors don not follow the age old, ancient, process of sculpting stone, but instead have their own style. Some sculptures draw directly on the stone the natural stone becoming a part of the composition. It is as if the stone decides what it wants to be.
Installation Art is known as “fashionable yet controversial”. This type of artwork is that which the work of art not only takes over the space that it is in but defines the space. Installation art can be site specific, meaning, the art cannot exist anywhere else besides in that specific location. These art works can take months to set up, and can be set up more than once in different galleries or locations just as long as it does not take away from the original meaning and context of the work. The piece has to be set up in a similar if not the exact same way. Some installation art is sold.
Other sculptors don not follow the age old, ancient, process of sculpting stone, but instead have their own style. Some sculptures draw directly on the stone the natural stone becoming a part of the composition. It is as if the stone decides what it wants to be.
Installation Art is known as “fashionable yet controversial”. This type of artwork is that which the work of art not only takes over the space that it is in but defines the space. Installation art can be site specific, meaning, the art cannot exist anywhere else besides in that specific location. These art works can take months to set up, and can be set up more than once in different galleries or locations just as long as it does not take away from the original meaning and context of the work. The piece has to be set up in a similar if not the exact same way. Some installation art is sold.
Glass is made of sand that has been heated up to high temperatures to become a molten liquid that is malleable.Glass can be sculpted hot by blowing the glass and the bending it or cold by using abrasive and corrosive liquids and chemicals. Ceramics are made of clay and then gradually cooled. Depending on what temperature the clay is fired at depends on what type of ceramic it is. Glass and Ceramics have specific chemical and structural make ups that give them a variety of uses. For example, through the years glass has evolved to now include reflective glass, more durable glass, and laminated glass.
The readings gave specific examples of ceramics used in different cultures. These ceramics were used for holding most likely liquids and food. We can learn a lot from the ceramics and glassware of certain cultures.
Also from the readings, we read about installation art. We made the same connection that the artwork defines the space.
The films helped to create many connections. The visuals and seeing the process that the sculptors had to go through was very interesting and added to my understanding of stone and marble sculpture.
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