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Sculpture Artists Sculpture Artists 3RD QUARTER STUDY GUIDE (10) Multiple Choice Questions (circled bullets in Artist Fun Facts/Bio) (15) Multiple Choice Questions (Slides with Artists’ last names) Michelangelo Buonarroti #3: Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian) Time period: The Renaissance (1400- 1600 AD) Style: (Representational) Fun Facts: Considered himself foremost a sculptor; however, the Pope convinced him to paint the Sistine Chapel. Sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer. In his lifetime he was also often called Il Divino ("the divine one") Michelangelo Buonarroti David 1501-1504 Gian Lorenzo Bernini #4: Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian) Time period: Baroque (1600- 1700 AD) Style: Representational Dramatic use of light, strong colors, theatrical, and movement. Fun Facts: He was the leading sculptor of his age, credited with creating the Baroque style of sculpture. Gian Lorenzo Bernini David, 1623-1624 Gian Lorenzo Bernini The Ecstasy of St. Tersea, 1647-1652 Auguste Rodin #5: Auguste Rodin (French) Style: Modern sculpture (worked during the same time as the impressionists. Time Period: Late 1800’s Fun facts: Rodin's most original work departed from traditional themes of mythology and allegory modeled the human body with realism, and celebrated individual character and physicality. Auguste Rodin The Thinker, 1879–1889 Auguste Rodin Gates of Hell, 1880-1917 Marcel Duchamp #7: Marcel Duchamp (French) • Born: 1887 Died: 1968 • Time Period: Late 1800’s - Early 1900’s • Styles: Conceptual art, Surrealism, and Dada • Dada- an art movement which emerged during WWI that was anti-art, poked fun at established traditions and was deliberately shocking. • Fun Fact: • Marcel Duchamp was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Dadaism and conceptual art, although not directly associated with Dada groups. • The ready-mades of Marcel Duchamp are ordinary manufactured objects that Duchamp bought in 1914 as "already made" sculptures. Marcel Duchamp Bicycle Wheel, 1913 Marcel Duchamp Bottle Rack,1914 Marcel Duchamp Fountain, 1917 Meret Oppenheim #8: Meret Oppenheim (German) • Born: 1913 Died: 1985 • Field: Painting, Sculpture, Poetry • Movements: Surrealism Fun Facts: • Her originality and audacity established her as a leading figure in the Surrealist movement. • Contributed to Surrealist exhibitions until 1960. Many of her pieces consisted of everyday objects arranged as such that they allude to female sexuality and feminine exploitation by the opposite sex. Meret Oppenheim Object (Fur Cup with Saucer and Spoon), 1936 Man Ray #9: Emmanuel Radnitzky “Man Ray”, (American) • Born: 1890 Died: 1976 • Field: Painting, Photography, and Sculpture • Movements: Surrealism and Dada Fun Facts: • He was best known in the art world for his avant- garde photography • a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. Ray is also noted for his work with photograms, which he called "rayographs" in reference to himself. Man Ray The Gift, 1921 Constantin Brancusi #10: Brancusi (Romanian) • Born: 1876 Died: 1957 (aged 81) • Field: Sculpture • Movement: Modernism Fun Facts: • was invited to enter the workshop of Auguste Rodin. Even though he admired the eminent Rodin he left the Rodin studio after only two months, saying, "Nothing can grow under big trees.“ • he held a large spectrum of interests, from science to music. He was a good violinist and he would sing old Romanian folk songs. Constantin Brancusi The Kiss, 1912 Alberto Giacometti # 11: Alberto Giacometti (Swiss) • Born: 1901 Died: 1966 (aged 64) • Field: Sculpture, Painting, Drawing • Movement: Surrealism, Expressionism, Cubism, Formalism Fun Facts: • His father was the painter, Giovanni Giacometti. • Giacometti went to the Geneva School of Fine Arts. Alberto Giacometti Walking Man, 1960 Barbara Hepworth #12: Barbara Hepworth • Born January 10, 1903. Died in May 20, 1975 • Style: Sculpting, Modernism Fun Facts: • By the time she attained 16 years of age, she was modelling life portraits using clay, which led her to win a scholarship to Leeds School of Art. • Besides her studies, Hepworth found time for marriage to John Rattenbury Skeaping, also a sculptor from Britain. Barbara Hepworth Infant, 1929 Jacques Lipchitz #13: Jacques Lipchitz (French American) • Born in August 22, 1891. Died in 16 May 1973 (aged 81) • Style: Sculpting, Cubism Fun Facts: • His father, a Jewish building contractor, came from a rich banking family. As a boy, Lipchitz was encouraged to draw. • After he graduated from high school, his father expected him to go to engineering school, but Lipchitz opposed him and went to Paris in 1909 to study sculpture. Jacques Lipchitz Figure, 1926-30 David Smith #14: David Smith • Born: March 9, 1906. Died: May 23, 1965 • Style: Modernism, Modern art, Abstract expressionism Fun Facts: • Worked as a riveter and welder at automotive factories before devoting himself to art. • Interested in the painterly potential of sculpture, he built his works by welding together found objects, machine parts, and forged metal. David Smith Cubi, 1960s Alexander Calder #15: Alexander Calder • Born: July 22, 1898,Died: November 11, 1976 • Style: Surrealism, Section d'Or, Modern art Fun Facts: • His Gran-Dad Alexander Milne Calder was also a sculptor. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, he emigrated to America aged 18. • Calder is best known for his creation of kinetic sculptures (mobiles) Alexander Calder Red Triumphant, 1963 Jasper Johns #16: Jasper Johns • Born: 1930 (still alive) • Style: Neo-dada • Fun facts: • Johns and Rauschenberg were the first artists to utilize “junk” as a fine arts material. • Johns makes his sculptures in wax first, working the surfaces in a complex pattern of textures, often layering collaged elements such as impressions of newsprint, or of a key, He then casts the waxes in bronze, and, finally, works over the surface again, applying the patina. Jasper Johns Target with Plaster Casts, 1950s Robert Rauschenberg #17:Robert Rauschenberg Born: October 22, 1925 Died: May 12, 2008 (age 93) Style: Neo-Dada Fun facts: • American artist Robert Rauschenberg is best known for paving the way for pop art of the 1960's with fellow artist Jasper Johns. • He worked as a costume and stage designer in New York City before moving to painting, sculpture, music and collage to produce his work. Robert Rauschenberg Monogram, 1955- 1959 Edward Kienholz #18: Edward Kienholz Born: October 23, 1927 Died: June 10, 1994 Style: Funk art/Neodada Fun Facts: • By 1950 Kienholz broke free from the two-dimensional surface altogether and began to create three- dimensional "constructions" through the assembly and combination of everyday objects. Edward Kienholz The State Hospital, 1966 .
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