A metaphor is a word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar. Artists use metaphor as a way to express their artwork in a meaningful manner, through object. An artwork/object has the potential to be anything that the creator decides it to be viewed as. Artists Alberto Giacometti and Andy Goldsworthy use the relationship between the drawing and the development of the three dimensional artwork.
Giacometti’s sculpture work of the ‘Standing Woman’ is a simplistic figure of an elongated woman standing. He has constructed this sculpture with minimal detail of the woman’s body yet has a high impact on the viewer. The sculpture has a ‘sense of ghostly fragility’ which ‘detaches …show more content…
Giacometti’s choice of material – Pink Leadhill Sandstone - has given the sculpture an overall rough texture, with an unfinished/unsmoothed look. He has ‘exploited the contradictions of perception in the haunting, incorporeal sculptures of this period. His figures ‘demonstrate the effect of distance on size and comment on the notion that the essence of an individual persists even as the body appears to vanish, become non-existent’. Even this sculpture and his other large-scale sculptures seem miniaturised, and frail. As the artist has commented he has purposely created the figure thin, and light, ‘You don’t feel your weight’. Giacometti wished to portray many concepts simultaneously in his fragile forms: ‘one’s consciousness of the nonmaterial presence, and the paradoxical nature of perception. ‘The base from which the woman appears to grow like a tree is tilted, emphasising the verticality of the figure as well as …show more content…
Drawing focuses on a 2-dimensional surface. The sculptors drew 2-dimensional versions of their sculptures as a plan to create the work, as clarification of their work. They have drawn to the three aspects to “Seeing”: visual perception - the ability of the brain to accurately judge the shapes, relationships and proportions evident in the data that our eyes take in, visualising - our ability to recognise and organise the ‘drawing potential” of a subject, visual literacy -the ability to read and interpret the marks of the drawing itself. Giacometti’s perceptual drawing is almost an exact depiction of his sculpture, utilising line to create tone, thus transforming the image from 2-dimensional to 3-dimensional. Giacometti’s and Goldsworthy’s sculptures are very distinctive, but their drawings are very similar. Goldsworthy’s drawing ‘Arch and Tree’ is a basic line drawing for the construction of structural form of his 3-dimensional works. He has drawn perceptually, drawing what the eye sees, and also the information to be conveyed. By placing the tree, an object of nature, in the background of the arch, he has assured that the viewer understands where he in visions his sculpture to be. He places the unnatural form in a natural place, like a tree; grows on its own. Almost everything that the artists wished to convey in their sculptures is conveyed in their drawings but less
Giacometti’s sculpture work of the ‘Standing Woman’ is a simplistic figure of an elongated woman standing. He has constructed this sculpture with minimal detail of the woman’s body yet has a high impact on the viewer. The sculpture has a ‘sense of ghostly fragility’ which ‘detaches …show more content…
Giacometti’s choice of material – Pink Leadhill Sandstone - has given the sculpture an overall rough texture, with an unfinished/unsmoothed look. He has ‘exploited the contradictions of perception in the haunting, incorporeal sculptures of this period. His figures ‘demonstrate the effect of distance on size and comment on the notion that the essence of an individual persists even as the body appears to vanish, become non-existent’. Even this sculpture and his other large-scale sculptures seem miniaturised, and frail. As the artist has commented he has purposely created the figure thin, and light, ‘You don’t feel your weight’. Giacometti wished to portray many concepts simultaneously in his fragile forms: ‘one’s consciousness of the nonmaterial presence, and the paradoxical nature of perception. ‘The base from which the woman appears to grow like a tree is tilted, emphasising the verticality of the figure as well as …show more content…
Drawing focuses on a 2-dimensional surface. The sculptors drew 2-dimensional versions of their sculptures as a plan to create the work, as clarification of their work. They have drawn to the three aspects to “Seeing”: visual perception - the ability of the brain to accurately judge the shapes, relationships and proportions evident in the data that our eyes take in, visualising - our ability to recognise and organise the ‘drawing potential” of a subject, visual literacy -the ability to read and interpret the marks of the drawing itself. Giacometti’s perceptual drawing is almost an exact depiction of his sculpture, utilising line to create tone, thus transforming the image from 2-dimensional to 3-dimensional. Giacometti’s and Goldsworthy’s sculptures are very distinctive, but their drawings are very similar. Goldsworthy’s drawing ‘Arch and Tree’ is a basic line drawing for the construction of structural form of his 3-dimensional works. He has drawn perceptually, drawing what the eye sees, and also the information to be conveyed. By placing the tree, an object of nature, in the background of the arch, he has assured that the viewer understands where he in visions his sculpture to be. He places the unnatural form in a natural place, like a tree; grows on its own. Almost everything that the artists wished to convey in their sculptures is conveyed in their drawings but less