Three-Dimensional Artwork
Prepared by Roland Lorenzo M. Ruben
From the Latin
word sculpere
meaning to carve
It is the art of
carving
There are two major sculptural
processes:
1.
Subtractive- unwanted materials is
cut away
2.
Additive- construction of a figure
by
putting together.
Example of Subtractive
sculptural process.
Example of
Additive
sculptural
process
Casting-is the process involved in
producing bronze sculptures
Carving—is the process involved in
cutting away unwanted raw material
Modeling-is the process involved when
clay or claylike substances are used as
mediums.
Assembling-it includes collage.
Constructing materials into
figures or forms
Casting: a mold is used to form molten
bronze(or other material) into a desired
shape.
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Carving
Subtractive
process:
material is
removed
Mainly wood and
stone (marble)
Modeling
Additive process: material is added to
build up a shape
Clay, wax, plaster, paper-mache
Assemblage: assembling found objects
in unique ways.
Joseph Cornell
Construction:
Additive process; welding, gluing, nailing
materials together.
Chicago’s Jelly Bean
Relief: attached to a surface or a
background
Free-standing or full-round.
-free standing sculpture that can be seen from all
sides.
Votive statue, Tell
Asmar
(Mesopotamia) 27502600 BCE 29.5cm
Kinetic and Mobiles
-
Alexander Calder: Untitled
are moving three- dimensional figures, best
example are those which are suspended on air.

Venus of Willendorf,
24,000- 22,000 BCE, 4
¾ “ tall
Great Temple of Ramses II- 1290 BCE

Jacques Lipchitz: La
Joie de Vivre, 1927
Granite sculpture by Verena Schwippert, 2007- By the Hands
of Humans #3
Part 3
Michael Jackson and Bubbles
1988
The most well-known
sculptures,
a pietà-inspired homage to
the King of Pop and his
favorite monkey, in gilded
porcelain.
FOREIGN
SCULPTORS
Most versatile of
Baroque artists.
Produce the famous “Ecstasy of
St. Theresa” located at Capella
Cornaro, St. Maria Della Victoria
in Rome.
“Ecstasy of St. Theresa”
“Louis XIV”
“ Death of Lodovica Albertoni”
“Fontana della Barcaccia”
Italian Renaissance painter
sculptor
architect
poet
engineer
Best
documented
artist of 16th
century.
“Pieta”
Michelangelo's David,
perhaps the most
famous sculpture in
history, was carved
from a block of solid
marble.
Italian sculptor
Became famous for his marble
sculptures that delicately
rendered nude flesh.
Born in Possagno
“Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss”(1787-1793)
“Perseus Holding the Head of Medusa (1801)”
Italian goldsmith
Born in Florence,
Italy
painter
sculptor
soldier
Musician of the
Renaissance
He worked under
several employers.
Arrested and imprisoned
several times for different
offenses (killing,
embezzlement).
“Nymph of Fountainebleau”
“Ganymede”
“Bust of Cosimo”
Born in Tucsan town of Vinci
Leornardo de ser Piero da Vinci
“Leornardo, son of (Mes) ser
Piero from Vinci”
“ The Last Supper”
Short form of
Donato di
Florence
Known for his
basso rilievo
(bas relief)
He received his early
artistic training in a
goldsmith’s workshop
and later in Lorenzo
Ghiberti’s studio
Donatello’s
sculptures are
considered as
supreme expressions
of spirit of this era in
sculpture
“St. Mark”
“St. George and the Dragon”
“St. Louis of Toulouse”
“Beardless Prophet”
“Sacrifice of Isaac”
“Jeremiah”
“Pazzi Madonna”
Born in
Florence
Italian artist of
the early
Renaissance
Best known for
works in
sculpture and
metal-working
“Gates of Paradise”
“The Three Graces”
Born in Borgonovo
moved to Geneva to attend
he School of Fine Arts
also to Paris to train under the
sculptor Antoine Bourdelle,
an associate of Auguste Rodin
“Woman with Her Throat Cut”
“Three Men Walking III”
“Woman of Venice II”
English artist
and sculptor
Born in the
Yorkshire town
of Castleford
Became wellknown for his
large-scale abstract
cast bronze and
carved marble
sculptures.
“Reclining Figure”
Henry Moore, 1938
“Knife Edge”
One of the
sculptors of the
Golden Age of
Greece and the
Chief sculptor of
the Parthenon
another
sculptor of the
Golden Age of
Greece
A pupil of
Phidias
“Hermes with the Infant Dionysus”
Puget was a
Frenchman
Training
under
Bernini
“The Victorious Alexander”
French sculptor of his time
He possessed a unique
ability to model a
complex, turbulent,
deeply pocketed surface
in clay
“The Gates of Hell”
“Andromeda”
“Bacchus in the Vat”
“Balzac”
“Torso of a Man”
EXAMPLES OF SCULPTURE
On September 28, 1901, the United
ThePhilippine
bronze-and-granite
Rizal Act
States
Commission approved
monument
is among
most
famous in
No. 243, which
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erect
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sculptural
in the
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commemorate
thecountry.
memory of
Swiss
Richard
Kissling,
the
is man
almost
protocol
for the
visiting
José
Rizal,who
Philippine
patriot,
writer
designed
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poet.The committee
dignitaries
to lay a formed
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atthe
theact
Monument
was
born
on
April
14,
held
an
international
design
competition
monument. Located on the monument is
18481905–1907
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in the
canton
of
between
invited
sculptors
not
merely
the statue of
the national
Solothurn,
Switzerland.
from
Europe
the
United
States to
hero,
butand
also
his
remains.
submit entries with an estimated cost of
₱100,000 using local materials.
Sculptor Frederic
Auguste
Bartholdi
was
symbolizing
freedom
commissioned
design
throughout thetoworld.
a sculpture with the
year 1876
St. Theresa
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in 1647
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is a subject
in Christian art
A famous
depicting
the Virgin
example
by Michelangelo
i
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s located in St. Peter's
of Jesus
Basilica in the Vatican City