Sculpture & Architecture
Chapter 10, Chapter 12 Lecture
Rebekah Scoggins
Art Appreciation Section F
January 24, 2013
Low-relief Sculpture
Apollo . c. 415 B.C.E. Diameter 1-1/8".
Low-relief Sculpture
Army on the March . Relief from Angkor Wat, The Great Temple of the Khmers,
Cambodia. 1100 –1150.
High-relief Sculpture
Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus , c359, Marble
Modeling
Ballplayer with Three-Part Yoke and Bird Headdress . Maya Classic Period. A.D. 600
–800.
Ceramic with traces of blue pigment.
Casting
Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, 175 AD, Bronze
Duane Hanson. Man with Walkman. 1989. Autobody filler, polychromed in oil, mixed media with accessories
Rachel Whiteread. House . 1991-1993, demolished 1994.
Carving
Michelangelo Buonarroti.
Awakening Slave . 1530 –1534.
Michelangelo Buonarroti.
David. 1501-04.
Guanyin of the Southern Sea ( Nanhai Guanyin ). Chinese. 11th –12th Century, Liao
Dynasty (907 –1125). Wood with paint.
Assembled
Sculpture
Julio González , Maternity , 1934, Welded Iron
Assemblage
Marcel Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel,
1951 (third version, after lost original of 1913). Metal wheel mounted on painted wood stool, Assemblage
Pablo Picasso, Bull’s Head, 1943, Bronze found objects, Assemblage
Assemblage: Combines
Robert Rauschenberg, Monogram , 1955-59, Combine Sculpture
Kinetic Scultpure: Mobile
Alexander Calder, Untitled, 1976, Mobile Sculpture
Installation
Cady Noland, This Piece Doesn’t Have a Title Yet, 1989, Installation
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Site Specific
Richard Serra. Tilted Arc . 1981. Height 12'.
Olaf Eliasson. The Weather Project (The Unilever Series). 2003.
Installation in Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London.
Architecture
• Function (how the building is used)
• Form (how it looks)
• Structure (how is stands up)
pushing tension/stretching bending/curving
Dry Masonry
Great Zimbabwe . Zimbabwe.
Interior. Before 1450.
The Great Pyramids. Giza,
Egypt. c2650-2500 B.C.E.
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Post and Beam/Lintel
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Colonnade and Court of Amenhotep III . Temple of Amun-Mut-Khonsu. View of the great court with double row of papyrus-clustered columns. Luxor, Thebes, Egypt. 18th
Round Arch
Groin Vault
Barrel Vault
Arcade
Pont du Gard . Nîmes, France. 15 C.E. Aqueduct.
Dome (arch rotated 180 ° ).
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Dome on a cylinder.
Hagia Sophia . Exterior. Istanbul, Turkey. 532 –535.
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Hagia Sophia . Interior. Istanbul, Turkey. 532 –535.
Dome on pendentives
Notre Dame de Chartres. Chartres, France.
1145
–1513.
Pointed/Gothic Arch
Louis Sullivan. Wainwright Building . St. Louis,
Missouri. 1890
–1891.
Steel-Frame Construction .
International Style
Walter Gropius, Bauhaus, exterior, 1926-27, Dessau, Germany. International Style.
International Style
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson.
Seagram Building . New York. 1956 –1958.
Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York, 1943-59
Frank O. Gehry. Guggenheim Bilbao Museo . Bilbao, Spain. 1997.
Frank Lloyd Wright. Fallingwater (Edgar Kaufmann Residence).
Bear Run,
Pennsylvania. 1936.
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