|
An introduction to bronze sculpture
|
Whether large or small, sculpture tends to have a monumental quality-the quality of grandeur and nobility in a work of art.
SCULPTURE IS ONE of the most interesting and complex of the arts. It ranges from Michelangelo's powerful carvings to African masks worn in religious ceremonies, and from stone statues that decorate cathedrals to metal mobiles that sway gracefully in the air.
A piece of sculpture can be small enough to stand on a table, or as large as the Statue of Liberty...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research
|
An introduction to bronze sculpture
Antiques & Collecting Magazine
; Whether large or small, sculpture tends to have a monumental quality-the quality of grandeur and nobility in a work of art. SCULPTURE IS ONE of the most interesting and complex of the arts. It ranges from Michelangelo's powerful carvings to African masks worn in religious ceremonies, and from stone
|
|
Learning To Live With Sculpture
The Washington Post
; The secret to placing sculpture is simple. Find a piece you like, take it home and move it around until you find the site that does the most for you and the sculpture. But this seldom happens. "Most people are intimidated by sculpture," says Dana Rubin, of Fendrick Gallery. "Because they're used to
|
|
Modern Sculpture Reader
Visual Culture in Britain
; ... agree. This reader represents a new intervention within the field of sculpture studies and its rapidly growing literature. It maps out the critical fortunes of sculpture within artistic debate over the course of the twentieth century, representing a wide variety ...
|
|
Hamrick, L. Cassandra, and Suzanne Nash, eds. Sculpture et poetique: Sculpture and Literature in France, 1789-1859. Nineteenth-Century French Studies.(Book review)
Nineteenth-Century French Studies
; Hamrick, L. Cassandra, and Suzanne Nash, eds. Sculpture et poetique: Sculpture and Literature in France, 1789-1859. Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Fall 2006, Vol. 35, No. 1. Pp. 309. ISSN 0146-7891 Ut sculptura poesis works as a phrase, because the term image is applicable to both sculpture and
|
|
Carve your niche in the sculpture market. (news).(Brief Article)
Art Business News
; What makes sculpture a unique art experience is the fact that it must be observed over time to understand. Sculpture is a freestanding work that's intended to be viewed from a continuously changing vantage point to observe how the form evolves. The interplay of light on and across the surfaces
|
|
Sculpture composition. (understanding creative design concepts)
School Arts
; In many sculpture classes, when the time is appropriate to discuss the principles of composition, the instructor either completely neglects the subject, or worse - they're treated like the Ten Commandments of Art. For centuries, sculptors made beautiful works of art to be admired by an adoring
|
|
Scattered across the floor: ... the sculpture of Colleen Wolstenholme.
C: International Contemporary Art
; Sculpture is scattered across the gallery floor, large plaster replicas of prescription pills. Mostly sedatives and anti-depressants, they are objects with soothing, wellness-designed names: Paxil and Prozac, Valium, Xanax and Zoloft, names like strange planets, other and utopian worlds. Egyptiform
|
|
Transformations in sculpture. (Guggenheim Museum, New York)
The Nation
; In the world according to Barnett Newman, sculpture was characterized as what you bump into when you back away from a painting to get a better look. so what do you bump into when you back away to get a better look at a piece of sculpture? At Transformations in Sculpture, the display of the last
|
|
|
Defining Sculpture.(Brief Article)
Art Business News
; The word sculpture is derived from the Latin verb sculpere, which means to carve or cut out of stone. But by today's definition, sculpture encompasses a wider sect of materials and methods. Also, sculpture is not to be confused with functional art. Functional art, by definition, is art that
|
|
Sculpture follows sun to Planetarium grounds
Chicago Sun-Times
; A granite sculpture at the 12th Street Beach resembling a primitive outdoor theater has been reshaped to look like a primeval, spiral-shaped galaxy. The sculpture's new shape, now on view south of the Adler Planetarium, allows visitors to see a collection of 60 stone pieces from Brazil being used
|