Fine Art - Eesti Kunstiakadeemia / Estonian Academy of Arts

Content: Lecture course of the problems of XX century sculpture will pass basic themes of XX century
sculpture.
Selection of names and themes treated in this lecture cycle:
1) Auguste Rodin & Medardo Rosso
New plastic values, modelling exchange, movement of form;
Myth of originality in avant-garde art (Rosalind Krauss)
2) Aristide Maillol, Henry Moore, Vera Muhhina; Arno Becker;
Various views of the problems of neoclassicism.
3)Picasso
Modern primitives; from African masks to synthetic cubism.
4) Duchamp, Arman, Mona Hatoum, Dan Wolgers
From ready-made "Fountain" to neodada and implementation of ready-made in hte sculpture of the end of
XX century.
5) Rod˛enko, Tatlin, Naum Gabo, Mark di Suvero
Utopist plans of Russian constructivism and traces of constructivism in post-war form language of urban
sculpture.
6) Alberto Giacometti
From surrealist object to post-Auschwitz human figure.
7) Donald Judd, Robert Morris; James Turrell; Michael Heizer
From strict examples of minimalism to arte povera and land art; deconstruction of expression, industrial
form language on landscape
8) Kosuth, Lawrence Weiner; Martin Creed, Gavin Turk
Problems of conceptualism.
9) Claes Oldenburg, Edward Kienholz, Christo Duane Hanson, Jeff Koons
Development of pop-art in sculpture from radicals of 60s through hyperrealism of 70s to camp and neopop
of 90s
10) Joseph Beuys
Social sculpture, Neue Freie Akademie in Düsseldorf, performance elements in sculpture.
11) Richard Serra, Rachel Whiteread
Sculpture in capitalist urban space, examples: Serra "Arc" (Rosalin Deutsche) and Whiteread "House".
Lecture will end with written examination.
Classical form study
Study load: 17 CP (4+3+5+5) / 25.5 ECTS
Location in curriculum: III, IV, V and VI semester
Objective: to provide students with basics of classical form study and modelling skills.
Content: practical modelling tasks using model.
Portrait and figure. Stress on construction and anatomy.
Nude and prtrait studio in round plastics and relief. Form generalisation and deformation. Free, individual
interpretation of figure, stress on plastic values.
Method: studio under instruction and independent work. Task setting from simple to complicated;
transition from geometric form to organic form.
Assessment and criticism at the end of each task.
Different tasks are set in 5-week cycles.
Technology of sculpture
Study load: 7 CP / 10.5 ECTS
Location in curriculum: V and VI semester
Objective - to provide information of physical-mechanical, plastic and decorative qualities of materials
used in sculpture, as well as technical equipment and technological process.
Content - the course starts with introduction of simple materials (clay, wax, plaster, plasticine), tools and
equipment. Plaster casting. Finishing and toning of plaster. Artificial stone and concrete sculpture, forming
technology and processing methods, various wood species as sculptural material. Rocks as sculptural