Topic 4: SCULTURE

1. Techniques
1.1. Subtractive
process of cutting
away from a block of
stone or wood
1.2. Additive
method of clay
modeler
2. Materials: Stone,
Wood, Terra Cotta,
Bronze
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3. Types of Sculpture
3.1. Pictorial the artist is
more concerned with details
3.2. Sculpturesque artist
with materials used, its
strength, solidity, surface
quality and tactile value
3.3. Built-up -- materials
used as well as the details
 4. Principles of
Appreciating Sculpture
4.1. Object must be shown
as belonging to the whole
body; bust as much chest
should appear with the
body
4.2. Only one material
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4.3. Figures must be in
contact with one another
(use arms or draperies)
4.4. Pose should be of grace
and vigor; preferably partly
or wholly draped
4.5. Presentation of mind/
emotion is through physical
beauty (body)
4.6. Choice is the young;
neither the old nor the
crippled
 5. Greek Sculpture
Periods
5.1. Daedalic Periods (8th
5th cent. BC) largely
Egyptian in style; male
figures with narrow waist
and broad shoulders;
Egyptian wig coiffure;
rigid frontality in their
poses; Kouroi naked
standing men and,
Korai draped female
figure
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5.2. Classical Period (480-
323BC): Age of Pericles
emphasis was on the form of
the body; facial expression
was calm and thoughtful;
well-developed human body
(e.g., Discuss Thrower &
Spear Carrier)
5.3. Hellenistic period (4th-1st
cent. BC) facial serenity
disappeared; statues shown
with little clothing
 6. Roman Sculpture more
realistic than the Greeks;
human sculptures
represented the subject as
they were in real life (with
imperfections); usually in
bust forms; subject matters
were Roman senators,
equestrians and sarcophagi
 7. Current Trends: 20th Cent.
main themes are anxiety and
terror
7.1. Henry Moore uses voids
and hollowing; human existence
as occurring between chasms of
destructions; horror or war and
suffering
7.2. Alberto Giacometti
popularized needle-thin figures;
bodily existence is reduced to a
minimum

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 8. Folk Sculpture: effigies
represent spirits; images
represent anitos; wood
medium used in Mt
Provinces

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