February 24 - Regis

Quiz question 1
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Awakening Slave
Marble
Height 9'
1530–1534
Is this work a
freestanding
sculpture or a
relief sculpture.

Quiz question 2
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Awakening Slave
Marble
Height 9'
1530–1534
Defend your
response to
question 1

Quiz question 3
What is kinetic sculpture?

February 22
Sculpture

Salient Points
• Distinction between freestanding and relief
sculpture
• Distinction between relief sculpture and high
relief sculpture
• Materials/methods
• Kinetic sculpture
• Sculptural methods (casting, carving,
assembling/constructing)
• Installation Art and Sculpture

Alexander Calder. Obus. 1972.
142 1/2" x 152" x 89 5/8".

Apollo, Greek silver coin. c. 425 B.C.E.
1 1/8" diameter.

Army on the March. 1100–1150.

Robert Longo. Corporate Wars: Wall of Influence, middle portion. 1982.
7' x 9'.

Ballplayer with Three-Part Yoke and Bird Headdress. Maya Late Classic
Period, 650–850 C.E.
13 1/2" x 7".

Robert Arneson. California Artist. 1982.
68 1/4" x 27 1/2" x 20 1/4".

Scott Chamberlin. Ahyre. 1998.
24" high.

Charles Ray. Self-Portrait. 1990.
75" x 26" x 20".

Kaz Oshiro. Tailgate (OTA). 2006.
53" x 17 7/8" x 1 3/4".

Rachel Whiteread. Public Art Fund Watertower Project. 1997.
12' high, 9' diameter.

Michelangelo Buonarroti. Awakening Slave. 1530–1534.
Height 9'.

Massive Stone Head. 12 th –10 th centuries B.C.E.
Height 65".

Elizabeth Catlett. Mother and Child #2. 1971.
Height 38".

Bodhisattva Guanyin. 11 th –12 th century, Northern Song (960–1127) or
Liao dynasty (916–1125).
95" x 65".

Julio González. Maternity. 1934.
Height 49 7/8".

Julio González
The Montserrat
Height 5' 5”
1936–1937

Compare and
contrast:

Deborah Butterfield. Nahele. 1986.
72" x 102" x 39".

Pablo Picasso. Bull's Head. 1943.
Height 16 1/8".

Marc Andre Robinson
Above left and bottom:
Throne for the Greatest Rapper of All Time
Wood
2005
Above right:
Wingback Throne for the Next Right Excellent
c. 2009

Alexander Calder. Untitled. 1976.
29' 10 1/2" x 76'.

Cai Guo-Qiang
Inopportune Stage One
Nine cars and sequenced multichannel
light tubes
2004

Lara Schnitger. Grim Boy. 2005.
71" x 59" x 20".

Richard Monahan
The Seller and the Sold
Mixed media
2006

Cady Noland. This Piece Doesn't Have a Title Yet. 1989.

Richard Serra
Tilted Arc
Steel
1981

Olafur Eliasson. The Weather Project. 2003–2004.

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