ARTS

• Sculpture


  The art of carving, casting, modeling or assembling materials into three-dimensional figure or forms
• Sculpture


  Comes from the Latin word "Sculpere" meaning to carve
• Prehistoric sculpture


  • Menhirs - free-standing megalith found along the coastline of Africa and Europe
• Sculpture mediums and techniques


  • Wood (hardwood like narra, molave, kamagong and bamboo)
  • Stone (adobe - hard and enduring)
  • Marble (hard limestone with smooth and veined texture)
  • Semi-precious stones (jade and crystals)
  • Ceramics (made of special clay, applied to pottery making)
  • Terracotta (figures formed out of baked clay fired at low temperature)
  • Metal (bronze is preferred)
• Kinds of sculpture


  • Free-standing (three-dimensional figure or sculpture in the round, monumental)
  • Relief (sculpture characterized as embossed, images set on flat background)
  • Kinetic and mobiles (moving three-dimensional figures)
  • Coelenaglypic (combination of intaglio and cameo technique)
• Subtractive sculptural process


  Carving of stone and wood, unwanted material is cut away
• Additive sculptural process


  Construction of a figure by putting together bits of clay or welding together parts of metal
• Carving


  A time-consuming and painstaking process where the artist subtracts or cuts away superfluous material until the desired form is reached
• Modeling


  Consists of addition, to or building up to form. Materials used are soft and yielding, can be easily shaped, enabling rapid execution
• Casting


  The only means to obtaining permanence for a modeled work is to cast it in bronze or some other durable substances. Two methods: Cire Perdue (lost-wax process) and sand-casting
• Construction and Assemblage


  Methods have their origin in collage, a painting technique where paper and other materials are posted to a picture surface
• Art


  Diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks), expressing the author's imaginative, conceptual ideas, or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power
• Arts and Humanities disciplines


  • Ancient and modern languages
  • Literature
  • Philosophy
  • Visual and performing arts
• Humanities


  Disciplines that explore, share, and recreate expressions of the human experience
• Visual arts


  • Architecture
  • Painting
  • Sculpture
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Theater or drama
  • Literature
• Humanities


  • Concerned with human thought, feelings, and relations
  • Importance of the human being and his feelings and how he expresses those feelings
• Art


  Concerns itself with the communication of certain ideas and feelings by means of a sensuous medium - color, sound, bronze, marble, words, film, and literature
• Art medium


  Fashioned into a symbolic language marked by beauty of design and coherence of form
• Art


  Appeals to our minds, arouses our emotions, kindles our imagination, and enchants our senses
• Visual arts


  • Painting
  • Sculpture
  • Architecture
  • Other everyday objects
• Aesthetics


  The forms and psychological forms of art
• What the arts have in common


  • Concerned with emotions and our feelings about things
  • Exciting
  • Lovely
  • Stirring
• Creativity process


  Artist as the prime mover, communicating his ideas through the performer, as his interpreter to the audience
• Artists


  • Highly sensitive persons specially aware of the sounds, colors, and movements of people and things around them
• A study of arts is the study of humankind, for through the arts we can discover man's major interests, feelings, and problems through the ages
• The art of ancient Egypt shows how the people of that time were preoccupied with the life after death, for many of their most impressive monuments were erected as tombs for the pharaohs
• Creating art


  1. Idea

  2. Material and process

  3. Organization and form
• Material


  The medium the artist uses to give form to their idea (e.g. pigments, stone, metal, wood, words, musical sounds)
• Organization and form


  The third phase of creating art, where the artist organizes the idea and gives it form in the selected material
• Style


  The development of forms in art that is related to particular historical periods
• Forms in the space arts


  • Often symmetrically balanced in their design, with the two sides of the object being identical
  • Symmetrical balance tends to emphasize the center, creating a logical focal point
• Assemblage


  A term coined by the French painter Jean DuBuffet to refer to his own work, which he made out of collage
• Assemblage


  A term sometimes used interchangeably with the term "Construction"