Site Specific Installation Sculpture Name:____________ The city has commissioned you to create an original sculpture for a site-specific location. Your sculpture will make a visual statement about an important issue (Historical, Social, Economical, Political) and must be created with a site- specific location in mind. It must also show clear evidence of influence from contemporary or past works of art. You will first create 3 different conceptual sketches, which will be evaluated. You will also submit a statement outlining the artistic influences in your sculpture and the sculpture techniques you used in creating it. Laura Simon – World Hunger. STEP ONE: READ the following handouts on What is Installation Art? and the 6 Critical Concepts of Installation Art and answer the following questions on the Installation Art handout. STEP TWO: RESEARCH THE WORK OF OTHERS: Look at the attached What is Sculpture? and Notable Installation Artist handouts. STEP THREE: DRAW: In your sketchbook 3 different conceptual sketches of an issue (Historical, Social, Economical, Political) you are interested in creating a site specific sculpture of. • Consider the elements and principles of design. (Shape, Form, Texture, Balance etc….) What materials have I used and what do each represent/signify? • Consider the context of the work as well as the site-specific location. What is the significance of your chosen location for your installation work? • Your finished work must show clear evidence of influence from contemporary or past works of art. STEP FOUR: CREATE: Follow your approved conceptual sketch and begin creating your work. WRITE your Artistic Statement Template to document your artistic process. The Dollar Store is an excellent place to acquire cheap mixed media. REVIEW: the sculpture techniques in this handout. Don’t Plagiarize! Copyright applies to text and visual materials that are taken from both the internet and print sources. Plagiarism is defined as “using the work (or part of it) of another person and claiming it as your own.” STEP FIVE: REFLECT: Answer the following questions using the elements and principles of design and complete your Artistic Statement Template for formal evaluation. 1. What part of your finished project did you find most successful and why? 2. What part of your finished project did you find least successful and why? 3. If you had to do this project, what part would you change or improve on and why? What is Sculpture? Generally speaking sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping materials, commonly stone (either rock or marble), metal, plastic, or wood. Some sculptures are created directly by carving; others are assembled, built up and fired, welded, molded, or cast. Type Artist & Work Sculpture Techniques Abstract Sculpture Carving - Stone carving is an ancient activity where pieces of rough natural stone are shaped by the controlled removal of stone. Casting - is a manufacturing process by which a liquid material is poured into a mold, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and then allowed to solidify. The solid casting is then ejected or broken out to complete the process. Casting may be used to form hot liquid metals or Constantine Henry Moore – Sheep Piece, Henry Moore –The various materials that cold set after mixing of Brancusi – The bronze. Archer, bronze. components (such as epoxies, concrete, plaster Kiss, stone. and clay). Futurist Sculpture Casting Umberto Boccioni – Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, bronze. Surreal Sculpture Assemblage - is an artistic process in which a Meret Alberto three-dimensional artistic composition is made Oppenheim – Giacometti – from putting together found objects. Object, Tall Figure Luncheon in Fur, fur & Casting ceramics. Mobile Sculpture A mobile is a type of kinetic sculpture constructed to take advantage of the principle of equilibrium. It consists of a number of rods, Alexander Calder – Lobster from which weighted objects or further rods Trap, Fish Tail, wire. hang. The objects hanging from the rods balance each other, so that the rods remain more or less horizontal. Pop Art Sculpture Assemblage - is an artistic process in which a three-dimensional artistic composition is made from putting together found/created objects. Claes Oldenburg – Shoestring Potatoes Falls From Bag, plaster, wire, fabric. Assemblage Assemblage - is an artistic process in which a three-dimensional artistic composition is made Sculpture from putting together found/created objects. Louis Nevelson – Royal Tide 1, gilded wood. Installation Installation art - uses sculptural materials and other media to modify the way a particular Sculpture Judy Chicago – Dinner Place Setting, space is experienced. Installation art is not mixed media. necessarily confined to gallery spaces and can be any material intervention in everyday public or private spaces. Environmental Environmental sculpture - is variously defined, usually creates or alters the environment for Sculpture Christo – Running Fence, the viewer, as opposed to presenting itself Approximately 200,000 m² of nylon, figurally or monumentally before the viewer. A 2050 steel posts and 145 km of steel frequent trait of larger environmental cable. sculptures is that one can actually enter or pass through the sculpture and be partially or completely surrounded by it. Photo Realistic Duane Assemblage - is an artistic process in which a Hanson – Duane Hanson – three-dimensional artistic composition is made Sculpture (Pop Art) Worker, Supermarket from putting together found/created objects. polyester Lady, polyester resin, resin, fiberglass, fiberglass, Bondo were Bondo were needed. needed. Post Modern Mixed Media - Characteristics of postmodern art. 1. Subject matter that makes commentaries on Sculpture culture 2. A sense of social conscience 3. Skepticism concerning scientific and technological progress Mark Quinn – 4. Appropriation or recycling from other work Self, Damien Hurst – The Physical 5. Rejection of single interpretations of blood/stainless Impossibility of Death in The Nam Jun Paik – meaning steel, Perspex, Mind of Someone Living, More Logins, 6. Use of modern technology and media refrigeration Tiger shark, glass, steel, 5% Less Loggings, 7. Pluralistic viewpoints equipment. formaldehyde solution. T.V.s, wire. K/U: What is Installation Art? Questions /26 Name:___________ 1. What are the seven different kinds of Installation Art? (7) 2. What are the two or more interrelated elements that make up Installation art? (2) 3. What are the fundamental aspects of Installation artwork? (3) 4. How does Installation “approach the very consciousness of art itself”? (1) 5. How is Installation really an activity (verb) pretending to be a thing (noun)? (1) 6. 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