This week our focus is on sculptures, installations and crafts. How these integrate into artwork is the question we pose. Our text book, Living With Art 9th Ed. by Mark Getlein and the following videos where used to review the topics:
For each of these videos lets try to lay out the key concepts of the art form. Also touch on the relationship of the text to the videos. Lastly the opinion of the films and how they added to the knowledge to the topics.
Through the Eyes of a Sculpture really showed how much time and preparation is needed to plan a piece. The care in conception, then modeling all the way to picking out the stone are carefully selected and highly individualized. I think the key facts where how many people really are involved in making a sculpture, and noting that it is rarely only one. The text showed some more detail with regards to the types of sculpting and the mediums used. This video was focused on the final product of marble. The beginning steps are similar with marble as bronze with respect to casting and creating forms or molds to head towards the final product. I thought the video was very informative and offered much in detail with regards to the sculptures care in planing the project and genuine love for what they do. It really breaks the notion of a single artist doing one piece and moving to the next and opens your eyes to the team effort used in creating a true masterpiece.
Installation Art really made an effort to explain the concept. What was interesting was how each artist defined the term. The general consensus seems to be a piece of art that becomes one with the area of installation while allowing the viewer to experience and interact with it. This leaves the options virtually endless and I think the video covers that very well. The text had very little on the topic by comparison to the sculpting and craft sides of art but the concept was explained very well. The video focused on the many forms of installation art and explained some of the controversy of the form, like a toilet that is sitting on a shelf, a bike wheel or even a unmade bed with cluttered night stand. The variation really show a new level of creativity and offer up a new conceptual form of art that offers a more immersible form of interpretation. Being surrounded by a piece and having it distort your senses really forces you to take each part of the work in which like all other forms of art offer a dynamic range of interpretation.
The Glass and Ceramics video really showed how an artist uses the material to form a piece suitable to its application. This video focused more on the diversity of glass and ceramic uses than the art side of its application. It did show how the range of applications and uses are thought out and planned to not only use the material correctly but also to offer up a positive visual experience. Our text was well balanced as well and showed the history of the mediums while focusing on the reasoning behind many of the uses. Glass has been used for years to showcase religious and other spiritual events, and ceramic has been used the same. These materials also found their ways into more everyday life. Any where you look that there is a standing building you are likely to see glass used to allow light in and also used to protect. The placement of these windows are carefully thought out in nearly every case and this adds to the visual acceptance of the material. Look in any cupboard and you will find glass or ceramic dishware. These can range from durable to ornate and really can show he multitude of purposes these materials can be used in. I liked how the video opened with how the two materials differ and then went into the uses with regards to art and everyday life. You will feel like these two materials are more entwined into your life then ever after watching it.
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