Richard Serra Richard Serra was born in 1938 in San Francisco, California. He studied at the University of California and at Yale University as well. He is one of the well-known American artists and sculptors of the Post-Abstract Expressionist period. His work has played a major role in advancing the tradition of modern abstract sculpture. His work has been able to draw a new perspective to sculpture by viewers in physical and visual experience. Richard Serra was involved in the process Art movement and currently works in Tribeca, New York and on Cape Breton Island in Novia Scotia. I believe the background of the artist has a great contribution to the works he has created. Living and working the New York could have been the main factor to why Richard Serra has made these tall structures that kind of represent walls or towers. It may depict how the city of New York is seen to be portrayed as. Many different kind of buildings and sort of an industrial looking area with many structures and buildings surrounding the millions of people that walk through it every single day. This may have been why he had decided to create his sculptures for people to walk through and around them to see what he is trying to portray. Richard Serra made his first sculpture out of materials such as fiberglass, rubber, and molten lead. Around 1970s, Serra had shifted his normal activities and stated to work on large scale site specific sculptures. He creates these sculptures that are a lot
The material artists use for their artwork can influence the overall message of the piece. Jeff Koon works with a few different types of mediums which influence the image of the work. His piece Puppy, is a large sculpture of a dog in front of a building. The skeleton of this piece is made of stainless steel and is filled worth soil. The entire sculpture is covered with live flowering plants. I really liked this piece because the artist is using a living medium to create his work. This gives the dog a sense of being alive. In addition to this the medium used in this piece is very unexpected. Most sculptures are made of clay, metal, wood, etc. yet Koon used flowers which is out of the ordinary. Another sculpture by Koon is named Balloon Dog.
The artist made great use of the elements, lines, colors, texture, and patterns. As well as other none strategic elements to make the eyes move around the fresco. A few elements that have been confirmed to be used in this fresco are kaolinite, calcite, and laic. These powered pigments that the artist mixed with water made very natural looking tones. These tones where used widely
James Turrell is a sculptor and designer born on the 6th of may 1943. He was born in Los Angeles, America to Quaker parents. When Turrell turned 16, he obtained a pilot license, for years, he restored antique airplanes to sustain his love for art. He obtained his bachelor degree from Ponoma college in perceptual psychology, he also studied math, geology and astronomy there. He enrolled in the university of California in 1966 and got into the graduate art studio program. After graduating, he obtained a space in an abandoned hotel in Santa Monica (Govan et al. 37). This space became his primary studio for the next 8 years, he started experimenting with light, shape and space. He was in the ‘Light and Space’ movement with artist Robert Irvine. By concealing windows and only allowing light from the streets, he created his first light projection. He is best known for his work in progress, ‘Roden Crater’, it is a natural cinder cone crater situated outside Flagstaff, Arizona.
The two artworks I chose to use for my essay are the Merode Altarpiece by Robert Campin, and The Deposition by Rogier van der Weyden. Both paintings are from the Early Renaissance, and I found both of them in my textbook. (Campin painting: page 307 and Weyden painting: page 311 in book “ART: A Brief History”)
After serving in World War II, Richard enrolled in the University of New Mexico where he painted the Albuquerque series, his master thesis. He was taking a flight above the clouds where he saw farm lands and farm roads. Albuquerque is an oil based paint on muslin that follows the idea of abstract thought. Richard is on of the greatest artist ofd the postwar era and many look up to him and his art abilities. I still have a hard time wrapping my mind around the abstract thoughts paintings. However, they are absolutely stunning paintings. They can be seen in all modern places throughout the world. Abstract paintings are taking over the art world for their unique looks. For such an odd painting, art like this make you appreciate the thought behind
Roberto Matta was an artist who employed the style of surrealism. He was born in Santiago, Chile in 1911, where he spent his adolescent years. Matta attended a Jesuit university where he studied architecture and interior design. After graduating from the program in 1935 he fed his need to experience other cultures by embarking on an expedition that encompassed many countries and continents. He first stayed only in Central and South America, but soon decided that he wanted to go further ("Matta: Making the Invisible Visible"). He then became a part of the Merchant Marines, which enabled him to expand his horizons. Although he had a passion and a background of architecture, he also loved to sketch what he saw as he travelled, especially landscapes and cityscapes. From the beginning of his time as an artist, he drew and painted almost exclusively abstract works. While in Europe, he finished his term in the Merchant Marines and remained in Paris working as an architect under a modernist architect known as Le Corbusier. While in Paris, Matta became acquainted with the works of Salvador Dali and Rene Margaritte ("Roberto Matta - Biography"). Amongst others these two artists were key sources of inspiration for the former half of his life’s work. When Matta began his artistic career, he used mostly crayons and pastels. His work became recognized and he was formally asked to join the Surrealist Movement by André Breton in 1937.
It’s truly astonishing to see what an artist can create from a piece of clay. The entire process starts with an idea. Whether it be assigned be a company, or completely freelance work, everything that has been seen on screen or in an attraction has started as a simple idea or sketch. Once that assignment has been given, the work can then begin. In most cases, the artist is provided with a life cast of the model they will be applying prosthetics on to ensure that the pieces fit the model correctly. When the life cast is available, the artist will being to put layers of clay on it, and begin to shape and sculpt every detail
metal. Metal serverved as the principal material to many artists as a result of two socio-political happenings, first of all because scraps of this industrial material was easy to find and second of all because these men learned how to weld in wartime factories. Contrary to these male artists who weld metal scrap into sculpture, Nevelson built sculpture out of wood. She rejected to make use of her male companion's choice of medium because “she felt that the noise and other aspects of the mechanical technique insulted her sensibilities” besides the fact that she did not feel an ancestral connection to this material (Lisle, 129). Wood for Nevelson was more than just a cheap material that was found laying around almost everywhere around the city in forms of broken furniture, milk crates and toys. It represents the private realm of the society, the indoors of a home. Wood reminded her of her ancestors source of living, it represented “the
Mark Rothko was born Marcus Rothkowitz in Dvinsk, Russia, now Daugavpils, Latvia, on September 25, 1903. He rated to the United States with his family at a young age. In the mid-20th century, he was a part of a group of New York-based artists, including Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, who became known as the Abstract Expressionists. His most famous large paintings of bright colored rectangles triggered emotions in the viewer. Rothko ended his own life on February 25, 1970.
Sculptures came in a variety of shapes and sizes. They were often made of wood, metal, cloth, or clay. These sculptures served as personal protection figures, symbols for supernatural powers, and representation of ancestors. Most sculptures were made to represent the human body, but some cultures never carve human faces so it resembled any individual in fear of accusations of witch craft. A great example of one such sculpture is Cango and Zaire.
Giacometti 1. Artist Alberto Giacometti created many sculptures that are distorted representations of the human figure (Dewitte, Larmann and Shields 567). The lines depicted in Giacometti's works are mainly organic for they are used to suggest human form. 2. Giacometti worked in the round when creating forms out of plaster or wood.
Sculptors took inspiration from pathos and drama to display exaggerated, dramatic, emotion-filled, more realistic pieces of art. They used common and holy people as subjects for sculpture, and used marble, sometimes stone, to create and depict their expressive character. Some of the most well know art sculptures that came from the Hellenistic period were: Laocoön and His Sons, The
During the 1960s and 1970s, many of his low-lying, segmented works came to redefine for a new generation of artists the very nature of sculpture itself.
The work of Antoni Gaudi falls under the movement of Modernism and therefore is wrapped in the traits of exuberant forms, ornamentation, great attention to detail, vast use of plant motifs, and the preference to curvilinear and asymmetrical line. Along with his attention to great detail Gaudi integrated the use of ceramic tile, stained glass, wrought iron works and master crafted carpentry which ultimately enhanced the unique innovative design concepts in which he became noted for. Gaudi introduced new techniques to the architectural world such as trencadis, which is a type of mosaic made of waste ceramic pieces and which is one of the design details incorporated throughout his work, one example being the spires of the Sagrada Família. Gaudi's work always involved a distinctive use of materials in particular the use of texture and color arrangement which was almost always included along with his imaginative style using ornamental ironwork. His wrought-iron designs were arrived at independently and frequently in advance of the comparable experiments of mainstream Art Nouveau (Arnason and Mansfield 101). Gaudi
Like African paintings, poetry, and woodcarvings, sculptures tell a tale and immortalize cultures and beliefs. Different artists have different styles (African Arts Information). Materials and styles differ from village to village. Most sculptors use green wood, copper, tin, zinc alloys, bronze, ivory, or terra cotta, a kind of earth ware. Most sculpture figures are believed to contain ancestor’s spirits. Others represent sacred ideas or events (Fetzer 106). Some objects are said to be magical and believed to have magical powers (African Arts). Africans carve figures, make masks, and decorate articles for ceremonies (Fetzer 106).