NOTES ON STEVEN BLEICHER'S CONTEMPORARY COLOR: THEORY & USE CHAPTER 7
-Stone sculptures are usually carved but they are sometimes assembled to form a visually interesting three-dimensional artwork. Stone is more durable than most alternative materials, making it especially important in architectural sculpture, done on the outside of buildings.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_sculpture
-The Myth of Whiteness - Western Classical (Greek and Roman) era statues were often painted, but assumptions about race and aesthetics have suppressed this truth. Now scholars are making a color correction.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/t…
-Since the Classical Western (Greco-Roman) era, marble has been the preferred stone for sculptors in the European tradition. It is available in a wide variety of colors, from white through pink and red to grey and black. The hardest stone frequently carved is granite, at about 8 on the Mohs scale.
www.estudiogroup.net/natural-stone.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_sculpture
-20th C. sculptor Constantine Brancusi’s concept of truth in materials led him to create sculptures with highly polished surfaces to bring out the natural elegance of the materials.
…Because of the color and striation of the marble…and the highly polished finish…
www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-c…
-Barbara Hepworth's Mother and Child, 1934 is another sculptural piece carved from colored stone.
-Wood Finishes - baring, varnishing, and staining woods are a way of altering the color of a wooden sculpture, while still letting the natural wood grain show through. These are ways of allowing for truth in materials*.
-Totem poles are a type of monumental carving indigenous to Northwest Coast Native American artists. The form consists of poles, posts, or pillars, carved with symbols or figures. They are usually made from large trees, mostly western red cedar. First Nations and indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest coast including northern Northwest Coast Haida, Tlingit, and Tsimshian communities in Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, Kwakwaka'wakw and Nuu-chah-nulth communities in southern British Columbia, and the Coast Salish communities in Washington and British Columbia.
The word totem derives from the Algonquian word odoodem meaning (his) kinship group. The carvings may symbolize or commemorate ancestors, cultural beliefs that recount familiar legends, clan lineages, or notable events. The poles may also serve as functional architectural features, welcome signs for village visitors, mortuary vessels for the remains of deceased ancestors, or to publicly ridicule someone. They may embody a historical narrative of significance to the people carving and installing the pole. Given the complexity and symbolic meanings of these various carvings, their placement and importance lie in the observer's knowledge and connection to the meanings of the figures and the culture in which they are embedded. The application of color on the planes of the form intensify the 3-dimensionality of a totem, which is typically caved in shallow relief.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totem_pole
-20th C. American Photo Realist sculptor Duane Hanson, born in Minnesota, spent most of his career in South Florida, was known for his life-sized hyper realistic figurative sculptures. He used live models to cast his works in various materials, including polyester resin, fiberglass, Bondo, and bronze. Duane Hanson’s sculptures look so real viewers sometimes try to converse with them. Most of his models were Hanson’s friends or colleagues.
-Patina is a thin layer that variously forms on the surface of copper, brass, bronze and similar metals, or certain stones, and wooden furniture, or any similar acquired change of a surface through age and exposure. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patina
To add color to their metal artworks, some metal sculptors use patinas. In her metal The Waste That is Our Own, Phoebe Adams used a dark green patina to color the liquid, and a much softer green hued patina to color the cloth behind the pitcher. The pitcher, left bare, has no patina, but is highly polished.
-Hard porcelain glaze was usually (and stoneware salt glaze, always) fired at the same time as the raw clay body at the same high temperature. Basically, there are four principal kinds of glazes: feldspathic, lead, tin, and salt. Soft porcelain glaze was always applied in this way. www.britannica.com/art/pottery/Decorati…
-One of the most important artists of the last century, Frank Stella is a rule breaker whose style has consistently evolved over the decades, Stella is known for his revolutionary approach to materials as well as his continued exploration of color, form, dimension, and architecture. The multi-colored, highly patterned surface of his reliefs confuses the eye and visually appears to flatten out the works.
blog.colourstudio.com/2016/12/color-cha…
-Glass artist Dale Chihuly captures a variety of vivid hues while working with the glass’s inherent transparency. His work is very theatrical, with swirling layers of color that move the viewer’s eye throughout the ceiling installation, image right…detail below. The shapes of the glass forms Chihuly uses are reminiscent of flowers, shells, and other organic forms.
-I was always a colorist, I’ve always had a phenomenal love of color… I mean, I just move color around on its own. So that’s where the […] paintings came from—to create that structure to do those colors and do nothing. I suddenly got what I wanted. It was just a way of pinning down the joy of color.
...the words of Damien Hirst, the enfant terrible of the late 20th century best known for his bisected animals submerged in formaldehyde, cabinets filled with medical supplies and an installation consisting of live maggots and a severed cow’s head?
magazine.art21.org/2012/02/02/on-view-n…
-In his Magnet TV, pioneering video artist Nam June Pike used a magnet to alter the electromagnetic field of the picture tube, which creates the blue arcing lines on the tv screen.
-Many light art installations exist in the cities around us as public works of art, taking a variety of temporary and permanent forms, including neon signage, advertising slogans and large-scale installations in public buildings, museums, and city centers, revealing the hugely spirited and adventurous ways artists continue to expand its boundaries. American artist James Turrell, born May 6, 1943, is a known for his work within the Light and Space movement. His work Ganzfelds, a German word to describe the phenomenon of the total loss of depth perception as in the experience of a white-out, shown here, in this case, is effectively a total “pink out”.
https://installationart.tv/light-art/
-Art that is made by shaping the land itself or by making forms in the land using natural materials like rocks or tree branches. Earthworks range from subtle, temporary interventions in the landscape to significant, sculptural, lasting alterations made with heavy earth-moving machinery. Some artists have also brought the land into galleries and museums, creating installations out of dirt, sand, and other materials taken from nature. Earthworks were part of the wider conceptual art movement in the 1960s and 1970s. Also called Land Art or Earth Art. www.moma.org/collection/terms/earthwork
-Andy Goldsworthy OBE is an English artist, sculptor, photographer, and environmentalist who produces site-specific sculptures and land art situated in natural and urban environments. Goldsworthy always works from the objects he finds on location. In his Rowan Leaves & Hole, he gathered leaves from the site in varying colors.
-Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be live, through documentation, spontaneously or written, presented to a public in a Fine Art context, traditionally interdisciplinary. Also known as artistic action, it has been developed through the years as a genre of its own in which art is presented live. It had an important and fundamental role in 20th century Avant Garde art.
-Blue Man Group is an American performance art company formed in 1987 known for its stage productions which incorporate many kinds of music and art, both popular and obscure, in its performances. Performers, known as "Blue Men", have their skin painted blue. During productions, the performers are mute and blue men always appear in groups of three.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkROWE8c7s4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nLynJnA84I
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k95pB0jr5Cc
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