Art Gallery Project: Sculpture Theme Presentation - Waldorf University

This presentation delves into the art of sculpture, focusing on its significance and diverse forms. It begins with an introduction explaining the author's interest in the subject and outlines the presentation's objectives. The presentation then examines various sculpture types, including freestanding and relief sculptures, and highlights the additive process. Several artworks are analyzed, each with details on the artist, year, dimensions, visual elements, design principles, and background explanations. Formal, contextual, and expressive art criticism theories are discussed, offering a comprehensive understanding of the artworks. The presentation concludes with a comprehensive statement emphasizing the impact of sculpture on society, creativity, and cultural values. References to relevant sources are also included.

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Student name
Waldorf University
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SCULPTURE
• The type of art that has been chosen in this paper is the sculpture. This
is one of the most significant art forms in the world.
• Various famous sculptors have worked across it. There are various
types of sculptures that can be found in this scenario.
• Some of these are freestanding sculpture, relief sculpture, additive
process, low and high relief.
• All these various types of cultures are indeed significant to note the
development of this art.

SCULPUTURE
• This theme has interested me a lot since I am a student of art form and
I had to go through the various chapters of this book to choose which
one I would follow.
• After going through most of the chapters I have found several
innovative features and techniques in these sculptures.
• Relief sculpture and additive process are the two most significant
sculpture types that I have found.

1. high relief sculpture
Martin Puryear
2006-07
35" x 72" (88cm x 182cm)
Artwork image
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1. Artwork Title
Visual Elements:
• wood
• Tar
• stone
• wire
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1. Artwork Title
Design Principles:
• Rhythm/repetition
• unity/harmony
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1. Artwork Title
• The white colour in the background acts as a complementary colour

2. Army on the March
Angkor Wat
1100-1150
135* 5 cm
Artwork image
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2. Artwork Title
Visual Elements:
• devatas
• bas-reliefs
• ediments extensive garlands
• narrative scenes
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2. Artwork Title
Design Principles:
• low intensity colour
• rough texture
• use of organic shapes
• Horizontal and vertical lines, and diagonal lines
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2. Artwork Title
• No background.

3. Maya classic
Artist’s name
600
76* 3

3. Artwork Title
Visual Elements:
• devatas
• bas-reliefs
• ediments extensive garlands
• narrative scenes

3. Artwork Title
Design Principles:
• High intensity colour
• smooth texture
• use of organic shapes
• use of and diagonal lines

3. Artwork Title
• The background has several negative spaces than the positive ones.

4. modeling type culture
Robert Lango
1982
50*7 cm

4. Artwork Title
Visual Elements:
• devatas
• bas-reliefs
• ediments extensive garlands

4. Artwork Title
Design Principles:
• Rhythm/repetition
• unity/harmony

4. Artwork Title
• Explanation of background
• The background has been repeated both vertically and horizontally

5. Apollo, Greek silver coin
anonymous
415 BCE
Dimensions
Artwork image
Citation

5. Artwork Title
Visual Elements:
• Tar
• copper
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5. Artwork Title
Design Principles:
• rhythm
• repetition
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5. Artwork Title
• The background is clear to concentrate the view’s attention on the
deck.

Formal Art Criticism Theories
• responding to, interpreting meaning, and making critical judgments
about specific works of art (Ku, Lee & Ellis, 2017).
• It helps in viewer’s perception to judge and interpret works.
• Maya classic

Contextual Art Criticism Theory
• It state that Artists are part of different societies and cultures. They
may work according to these or other social or cultural contexts
• Tit promotes diversity among artwork
• How maya classic has been represented is not how Martin has
presented his artwork

Expressive Art Criticism Theories
• treats a literary work primarily in relation to the author. It goes ahead
to judge the works by its trueness to the vision of the artists (Tan et
al., 2017).
• It helps in identifying the sincerity in what various artists have had
while making performing the artwork
• Rodgers artwork brings the sympathy scene in a viewer’s mind.

Comprehensive Statement
• It greatly influences the society by promoting change of opinions,
translating experiences and instilling values across time and space
(Frank, 2004).

Comprehensive Statement
It is very broad field of study that is driven by passion, talent and a
strong zeal. It is one of the areas that promotes creativity across all
ages but more specifically among the children. It is an area worth
investing in across society.

References
Ku, K. Y., Lee, V. S., & Ellis, J. W. (2017). Using artwork as problem
context in generic critical thinking instruction: A strategy for
thoughts. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 25, 53-59.
Tan, W. R., Chan, C. S., Aguirre, H. E., & Tanaka, K. (2017, September).
ArtGAN: Artwork synthesis with conditional categorical GANs. In 2017
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) (pp. 3760-
3764). IEEE.
Frank, P. (2004). Artforms. Pearson Prentice Hall.