sculpture...

Kehinde Wiley’s sculpture entitled ___, 2011, is a bust made of ___. A bust is a sculpture of a ___

• “Houdon Paul-Louis”

• polished stone

• person’s head, shoulders, and chest

Sculptures can be purely artistic or decorative, but it canalso be utilitarian. The Isamu Noguchi “Coffee Table” is a beautiful sculpture, but it also has a utilitarian function. Utilitarian means designed to be ___ or ___, not just beautiful.

• useful

• practical

Sculpture can be monumental in scale like Claes Oldenburg’s ___ and ___. Monumental means great in ___, ___, or ___.

• Spoonbridge

• Cherry

• importance

• intent

  • size

Relief sculpture is sculpture that is ___, ___, or ___ to stand out from a surface.

• carved

• molded

  • constructed

Generally speaking, face shapes include: (7)

• round

• square

• oblong

• triangle

• heart

• diamond

  • oval

Parts of eye: (7)

• eyebrow

• eyelid

• eyelash

• tear duct

• sclera

• iris

• pupil

Parts of the nose: (5)

• bridge

• tip

• nostrils

• nasal passages

• septum

Parts of the mouth: (4)

• philtrum

• cupid’s bow

• upper lip

• lower lip

Proportions of the face:

When drawing a face, the eyelid crease lines up with the top of the ears and the tip of the nose is approdimately even with the bottom of the ear lobe

___ (___-___) is an American sculptor and artist. She was originally from ___.

• Louise Nevelson

• 1899-1988

• Ukraine

Nevel’s sculpture, ___, 1958, consists of:

boxes stacked against a wall, each compartment filled with wooden scraps including moldings, dowels, spindles, and furniture parts. nevelson covered the entire assemblage with black paint, unifying the composition by obscuring the individual objects. “Sky Cathedral,” like many of Nevelson’s wall pieces, evokes the sense of a shrine or a place of devotion.

Assemblage art:

a work of art made by grouping found objects

Installation art:

Art that can be disassembled and reassembled in a different location

Feminist art:

Art that seeks to challenge the dominance of men in both art and society, to gain recognition and equality for women artists, and question assumptions about womanhood

Elements of art:

line, shape, value, form, color, texture, space

Principles of design:

rhythm, contrast, unity, balance, pattern, emphasis, movement

The prinicples of design that Nevelson demonstrates most consistently in her sculptures are:

rhythm, pattern, movement

___(___-___) is an American sculptor

Alexander Calder

Statis:

Lacking in movement, action, or change

Kinetic:

relating to or resulting from motion. In a work of art, depending on movement for its effect

Maquette:

a sculptor’s small preliminary model or sketch

Stabile

a freestanding abstract sculpture or structure, typically of wire or sheet metal, in the style of a mobile but rigid and stationary

Mobile:

An artistic or decorative structure that is suspended so as to turn freely in the air

Deconstructed:

reduce (something) to its constituent parts in order to reinterpret it

Calder’s innovations:

• Evolving two-dimentsional art into three-dimensional art

• Incorporating shadows

• Introducing movement with air and wind currents, or motors

• Adding sound

___is a Japanese sculptor and artist born in 1929.

Yayoi Kusama

Conceptual art:

Art in which the idea or concept presented by the artist is considering more important than its appearance or execution

Pop art:

an art movement that emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s in America and Britain, drawing inspiration form sources in popular and commercial culture

Performance art

an art form that combines visual art with dramatic performance

Yayoi Kusama’s life:

a testament to the healing power of art as well as a study in human resilience. Plagued by mental illness as a child, and abused by her mother, Kusama persevered by using her hallucinations and personal obsessions to create art in multiple disciplines