Environmental sculpture Emma Kious
What are environmental sculptures? Environmental sculptures are pieces of art that are either digitally or physically placed into an environment
Famous environmental sculptors Henry Moore Jean Arp Claus Goldenberg …
Henry Moore
Henry Spencer Moore Henry Moore was a famous English artist and sculptor. He is mainly famous for his semi- abstract bronze pieces of work, placed everywhere around the world in public places, as environmental sculptures. He was a teacher and went to the army before starting off as an artist
Henry Spencer Moore In the army, he drew sketches of underground tunnels making a spooky effect How did he make that spooky effect? By using wax crayons and watercolor paint “I hit upon this technique by accident, sometime before the war when doing a drawing to amuse a young niece of mine. I used some of the cheap wax crayons in combination with a wash of water-color, and found, of course, that the water-color did not ‘take’ on the wax, but only on the background.”
Jean Arp
Jean Arp or Hans Arp He was a German then French sculptor, painter, and poet He is best known as a surrealist painter and as a founder of Dadaism, an artistic and literary movement Jean Arp in France, Hans Arp in Germany
Resources Jean Arp: arp-jean.html arp-jean.html york/collections/collection-online/show- full/bio/?artist_name=Jean%20Arp york/collections/collection-online/show- full/bio/?artist_name=Jean%20Arp Henry Moore:
My sculpture When I started moving the wires around, I really saw a sort of tree coming out. I decided to make the bottom of the sculpture pretty thin and then slowly going thicker, like a tree. Then, when I painted it, I didn’t make the bottom brown and the top green, I decided to make it a bit different and make it all green with the base brown. Then, it looked too simple so I outlined the wires with black, so it might look like some branches or like banyan trees, roots.
Result Finally, when I had to put it into Photoshop, I decided to put it in an environment that had many trees and, well, I found this really cool picture and this is how it looks like: