/11 NAME:______Modern Sculpture Constantin Brancusi 1. Make a sketch outline of Constantin Brancusi's He was a Romanian-born sculptor The Kiss sculpture and describe the geometric who is widely regarded as one shapethat the artist uses. What effect does this of the founding figures of modern shape have on the two figures? (3) sculpture. He broke sharply with therealist tradition , making abstract sculptures, chiefly in metal and stone, of great geometric simplicity. Constantin Brancusi, The Kiss, 1912. Limestone. Surreal Sculpture Shape: Meret Oppenheim She was a German-born SwissSurrealist artist and Effect: photographer.
2. Describe how the shape of Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space sculpture suggests dynamism Meret Oppenheim, and an urge towards progress? (1) Object, (Luncheon in Fur) 1936, Fur-covered Cup, Saucer & Spoon. Futurist Sculpture Umberto Boccioni He was an Italian painter and 3. Look at Meret Oppenheim's Object (Luncheon sculptor who like otherFuturists , his in Fur) from 1936. What kind of mood/feeling do work centered on the portrayal of you get from it and why? (2) movement (dynamism), speed, and technology. Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, Bronze, 1913. Alberto 4. Make a sketch outline of the form of Alberto Giacometti's Tall Giacometti Figure sculpture from 1947. What He was a Swiss Alexander mood/feeling do you get from it sculptor, painter, and why? (2) and Surrealist Calder who is known for Alexander Calder was an his elongated American sculptor who sculptures. His created the mobile in haunting, anguished Paris in the early 1930s. images have been described as perfect expressions Alexander Calder, of existentialist Lobster Trap & Fish Tail, pessimism. hand mobile, painted steel mood/feeling: wire and sheer aluminum, 1939.
5. Look at Calder's Lobster Trap & Fish Tail mobile. What kind of mood/feeling do you get from it and why? (2)
mood/feeling:
why: Henry Moore He was a British sculptor whose works, mostly semiabstract human figures, are characterized by smooth organic forms. Moore was asked to design a 6. How does the shape of Henry statue that would complement Moore's The Archer help convey the flowing lines of City Hall. a sense of movement? (1) Alberto The Archer weighs 2.5 tones! Giacometti. Tall Henry Moore, Figure, 1947, The Archer, Bronze, Bronze. Toronto, 1966. Modern Sculpture Pop Art NAME:______/9 1. What kind of social commentary is Pop Sculpture artist Claes Oldenburg creating in his Shoestring Potatoes Falling Claes Oldenburg From Bag sculpture? (1) He is a Swedish born Installation Sculpture American sculptor known Judy Chicago for his “soft sculptures.” Her works is always involved with advancing the cause of The fries are transformed women's rights.Her site-specific installation sculpture into a satirical emblem of is a gigantic triangular arrangement of place the basest level of settings calledThe Dinner Party. Each space is American culture designed to represent one great women in history. greasy fast food. 2. How has Louise Nevelson unified the various forms and Claes Oldenburg, shapes in her Royal Tide I, Shoestring Potatoes gilded wood sculpture? (1) Falling From Bag. 1966.
Assemblage Sculpture Louise Nevelson Judy 3. Look at Judy Chicago's She painted Chicago, The Dinner Party sculpture everything a flat The Dinner from 1979 and describe how black, white or gold Party, 1979. the artist unifies the various colour, she unified Ceramic with different place settings in the the many different hand woven piece? (1) parts of her work. cloth, each side Her sculptural style about 25 meters ofassemblage is long. a kind of three- dimensional collage. Environmental Sculpture Christo 4. Why is Christo's Running Bulgarian-born American sculptor Fence Project for Sonoma andenvironmental artist best County & Marin County known for wrapping objects, considered an environmental especially large-scale items such sculpture? (1) as whole buildings, in fabric. Running Fence began as a veiled fence, made from steel posts and steel cables,running through the landscape and leading into the sea. The fence was to be 5.5 m high and 40 km long.
Christo, Running Fence, Project for Sonoma County & Marin County, CA, 1976, collage.
5. What kind of mood/feeling do you get from looking at Duane Hanson's Supermarket Lady sculpture and why? (2)
Photo-Realistic Sculpture 6. What comment do you think Duane Hanson is making in Duane Hanson his fiberglass life size sculpture Supermarket lady from 1970 He is an American sculptor who on the American way life of life? (1) produces life-sized realistic figures. He creates his figures from polyester resin and uses items of real clothing. His work has been praised by some for its underlying humanity or its implied satire and 7. From this file select one piece of modern sculpture that criticized by others for its brand of you think is the most artistically successful and explain why. (2) deadpan dullness.
Duane Hanson, Supermarket Lady, 1969-70.