The Cubist style

What is relief sculpture?• Relief is sculpture built up off a flat surface.

• High relief has areas raised up to several inches.

• Relief is made to be viewed from one direction.

Pablo Picasso

• Created the working style called Cubism.

• Cubism discards perspective and shows multiple viewpoints at the same time.

• Breaks the figure into flat planes.

• Inspired by African art, specifically masks.

Louise Nevelson• One of Americas most

prominent female artists

• Began sculpting by playing with wood scraps from fathers lumber mill.– Makes use of

overlapping

Albert Paley• Works in wrought iron• creates organic,

curvilinear forms which utilize…– flat forms

– overlapping areas

– negative space

Found objects and mostly flat planes...

Flat planes and multiple levels...

Three “cubist” faces...

Notice how the faces are broken into shapes...

Some more stuff...

The design problem• Mask must be constructed from all “found”

materials (you may provide supplementary material).

• You need to use “limited alteration” of your found materials.

• Mask must consist of at least three (3) changes of level.

• Show use of the cubist approach.

What is “limited alteration” ?

• Will be the last 10 points of the project.

• The fewer cuts made, the more points earned, however...

• the grade will be on a sliding scale.– The amount of cutting will be weighed against the

quality of the effect it has on the finished piece.

– Your justification of the need to cut will count.

– Your attempts at other solutions will count.

remember… the Cubist style

Some student work

Chrissy Lapham 2000

Justin Reuffer 2000

Jen Warner 2000