1. Objective: You will analyze sculptures and define abstract art in order to use techniques to draw figures in an abstract way. DRILL: 1.What is the difference between these two sculptures? 2.What is abstract art? 3.What are ways to create an abstract figure? 4.DRAW 3 abstract sculptures from these slides. 5.Transform one of the realistic figures into an abstract figure. Get your sketchbook and an iPad.

3. What is abstract? How is this abstract?

4. “art that does not attempt to represent external, recognizable reality but seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, forms, colors, and textures.” -simplified -stylized -exaggerated Not concerned with reality, but shows an essence of the object.

9. Henry Moore

10. Ruth Duckworth

11. Three female figures, ca. 1400–1300 b.c.; Late Helladic IIIA Mycenaean

13. Which shapes are used to create these figures?

15. Figures, Cycladic art, Cyclades Islands,Ancient Greece,4000 BC

18. Henry Moore

22. Alasdair Neil & Sally

30. Venus Figurines: 1 Willendorf (Rhine/Danube), 2 Lespugue (Pyrenees/Aquitaine), 3 Laussel (Pyrenees/Aquitaine), 4 Dolní Věstonice (Rhine/Danube), 5 Gagarino no. 4 (Russia), 6 Moravany (Rhine/Danube), 7 Kostenki 1. Statuette no. 3 (Russia), 8 Grimaldi (Italy), 9 Chiozza di Scandiano (Italy), 10 Petrkovice (Rhine/Danube), 11 Modern sculpture (N. America), 12 Eleesivitchi (Russia); 13 Savignano (Italy), 14 “Brassempouy Venus” (Pyrenees/Aquitaine), 15 Hohle Fels (SW Germany). #goddess#goddess

37. Draw 3 different versions for this figure that is abstract.

45. Find your own action pose online OR Take a picture of yourself or another person in the room in a pose that you want to sculpt.