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16 Cards in this Set
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TEXTURE
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How does the objects surface feel, or appear to feel to the touch?
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TEXTURE
Actual/surface texture |
what it feels like in reality if I went and touched it
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TEXTURE
Implied/simulated |
what it looks like it would feel like (ex. marble hair looks like it would feel soft and silky)
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MODES OF CREATION
Subtractive |
ex. huge block of marble carved away to create the sculpture
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MODES OF CREATION
Additive |
smaller pieces (ex. clay) put together to create a larger sculpture
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SPACE
Positive |
space a form occupies (ex. waves)
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SPACE
Negative |
space unoccupied by form, surrounding a sculpture and in between torso and arms (if hands on hips)
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SPACE
Low Relief |
protruding from the medium
Shallow carved in less than halfway |
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SPACE
High relief |
protruding from the medium
Carved around the sides |
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SPACE
sunken relief |
Receding into the plane
scarub relief. carved in |
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SPACE
in the round |
can walk around it and see the front and back
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SPACE
Closed form vs. Open form |
closed= all solid, no holes for negative space, ex. arms crossed
open= negative space invading it, ex. arms stretched out |
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LINE
Geometric vs. curved |
geo= triangle, squares,sharp edges,
curvilinear= contours of sculpture is round |
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NATURALIZATION vs. STYLIZATION
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How closely it resembles naturally-occuring forms- as close to nature as possible
and how it might be STYLIZED, distorted or simplified. individual style artist styles to make ear resemble an ear but not how it actually looks (like a conch shell) |
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SCALE and PROPORTION
life size miniature monumental distortion of proportion |
Lifesize= scale that things are in life, horse
miniature=smaller than life size (2" horse) Monumental= Great Sphinx, monumental Distortion of Proportion= TALL skinny Dali sculpture or SHORT ROBUST AND ROUND (woman of willendorf-rotund, prayed to her for fertility) |
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Media
From what materials was it made? |
Stone: marble, limestone, granite, sandstone, alabaster
Clay: earthenware, terracotta, porcelain Metal: Bronze, Gold, Gilt Bronze Wood Glass |
