Study Guide for 3-D art DDAKurtz

Artist: MichelangeloName: DavidStyle: Renaissance

Sculpture in the round

Artist: Louise NevelsonAssemblages/found object

Artist: Henry MooreStyle: AbstractMedia – usually cast Bronze, some carved stone

Artist: Alexander CalderType: Mobile Kinetic art

Non-objective

Artist: Salvador DaliStyle: Surrealism

(Dream like)

Artist: George SegalStyle: Pop Art (kind of)

Artist: Claes OldenbergStyle: Pop Art

Three Goddesses Roman High Relief

Carving into a piece of clay or stone creates a relief

How were these sculptures created??

WELDING =Join together (metal pieces or parts) by heating the surfaces to the point of melting using a blowtorch, electric arc, or other means, and uniting them by pressing, hammering, etc

To attach smaller pieces use asoldering gun

What method was used to create these:

What are these called? What are they?

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What is the purpose of commemorative art?

• Conceptual art, sometimes simply called Conceptualism, is art in which theconcept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditionalaesthetic and material concerns. Many works of conceptual art, sometimes calledinstallations

Recycled art

Installations

Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that

are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a

space.

Craftsmanship=outstanding skill use of technique

• Assembling =combining materials.

• Technique=the way an artist uses mediums.

• In art, an armature is an underlying, unseen, supporting component (usually of wood or metal) for something else.

Shapes are:

• Geometric or Organic

Concave vs Convex

Positive Vs Negative

neutral colors are white, grey, brown

Primary can’t be made

contrast is made using complimentary colors.

Artists statement =

• Creativity is

an artist writes to explain a piece of artwork

the use of original ideas to produce something

How do you Present artwork??framing, lighting pedestals.

Elements of art

Movement-

guides the viewers eye

contrast-rough vs smooth

proportion-comparative by size

forms of balance

Styles: Non-objective, Abstract, realistic, surreal, pop-art, cubisim (geometric),

Mediums: Mixed Media, Plaster, Papier Mache (French term),Casting- (bronze and coins), clay.

Oldest sculpture medium-Clay.

Media-more than 1(clay and wire)-Mixed media Medium=1 material –(Oil paint)

Tools: Welding to fuse metalSoldering to sculpt and attach metal

Chisel for subtractive.

Careers; art Therapy, Toy designer(creates packaging and toy), exhibit designer (store windows etc), graphic designer (logos, flyers)

African Art

Greek Art

Egyptian art

Ceramic portion – terms:

Bone dry has a powder like surface

How to Burnish a pot

If pieces are too wet, they may slump

Amphora - a type of greek vase

Slow down the drying process to control shrinkage

Clay should be dried slowly

Clear glaze is transparent

Temps for firing: 1800 degrees cone 06 Glaze firing 2nd firing

1900 degrees for cone 04 – bisque (1st firing)

Aesthetics make work visually pleasing

Clay shrinks 4-20%

Sgraffito

Plastic, leather hard and bone dry = green ware UNFIRED CLAY

Bisqueware= clay that has been bisqued (gone through first firing)

Glazeware= clay that has gone through a glaze firing (2nd firing)