ELEMENTS OF ART

LINE - a continuous mark on a surface

SHAPE - enclosed line

COLOR - HUE/intensity

VALUE - Tints and Shades (light/dark)

TEXTURE - Tactile (visual or actual)

SPACE - Foreground, Middle ground, Background

FORM – Visual or Actual

What is Sculpture? 3 dimensional artform What does 3-D mean? Form has height, width,

and depth What does medium refer

to in art? Material used for a

given sculptureWoman Brushing Her Hair With a

Green Chair, Segal

Sculpture in the Round

Sculpture that can be looked at from all perspectives

The Dancers, Matissee

What is a Relief? In Sculpture, any

work that projects from the background.

Where are reliefs typically found?

Gates of Paradise, Ghiberti

The Casting Process The process of

making a mold from an original work

Diego, Giacometti Walking Man

The Carving Process- SubtractiveThe process of taking away material from a given volume.

Cutting or Incising usingKnives, chisels, gouges, points,Saws and hammers

Pieta, Michelangelo Bird in Space, Brancusi

The Modeling Process, Additive

The sculptor adds (bit by bit) wet clay or other soft mediums, i.e. plaster, to build up or construct the original artwork

Often armatures are used

Large Standing Woman, Giacometti

What is an armature?

A construction made of wood, metal wire, piping, or suitably rigid materials to support wet clay, plaster or soft and pliable materials used by the sculptor to model or construct a sculpture

The Assemblage Process Constructing

or adding existing shapes, objects or materials to one another in a method other than welding

Found objects

House of Ancient Memory, SaarLiza Lou

The Welding Process The process of

joining together two pieces of metal by fusion

Stabiles created by Calder

Calder Wire Sculptures

How Are these created?

Installation-numerous pieces of art work used to create an environment

The Garden at Kew,Chihuly The Diner, Segal

Natural Sculptures created by Goldsworthy

The Gates, Christo