1. Sculpture and Installation Art
The FOUR Sculpture building
Techniques

2. Methods and Materials Four Basic Methods for making a sculpture
Modeling – additive process
Carving- subtractive process
Casting- molds
Assembling- additive process

3. Modeling
In sculpture, manipulating a plastic material such as clay or wax to create a form.
This is an additive process. Taking clay or other pliable materials and adding them together to create a shape or form.

5. Casting
The process of making a sculpture or other object by pouring a liquid into a mold, letting the liquid harden and removing the hardened form from the mold.
Materials such as bronze, plaster, clay and synthetic resins are poured into molds.

6. Louise Bourgeois, Maman, 1999, Bronze and steel 30’5”

7. Using a mold

8. The Burghers of Calais, Auguste Rodin, 1884-85, bronze, 6’ 10” x 7’11” x 6’6”

9. Carving
A sculpture is carved, chipped, sanded, cut or gouged out of a solid material.
Wood and stone are the principle materials for carving.
This is a more aggressive approach to art making. Both wood and stone tend to resist the artists’ tools.

10. Marble carving
Wood carving

11. Relief Sculpture
Arch of Constantine

12. Sarcophagus lid,
from the Temple of Inscriptions,
Palenque Chiapas, mexico,
Maya, limestone, 684 CE

13. In the
Round
Relief-Sculpture meant to be viewed from only one side. Usually part of a wall or other architectural feature.
Low Relief (Bas relief)- coins
High Relief -when a sculpture projects boldly from the background. (They project out at least half of their depth.

14. Assembling
The technique of creating a sculpture by grouping or piecing together distinct elements. An assembled piece may be called an assemblage.
Untitled #1111 (Little Ed’s Daughter Margaret), Petah
Coyne , Wax, fiberglass cast statuary, velvet,
satin, ribbon, thread, PVC pipe and fittings, steel
understructure, branches, fabricated branches, silk flowers,
wire, hat pins, tassels, feathers, pumps, irrigation tubing,
water, hair, black paint ’ tall

16. Untitled (to Karin
and Walther), from
the European Couples
series,
fluorescent light
fixtures with blue tubes
8 x 8’, Dan Flavin
Andy Goldsworthy, maple leave

18. Installation Art
Christo and Jeanne Claude, Umbrellas, California

19. Christo and Jeanne Claude, Drawings for The Gates

20. Christo and Jeanne Claude, The Gates, 1979-2005, Installation in Central Park
New York City, February , 2005

21. Yayoi Kusama in front of her installation Fireflies on the Water, 2002,
Mirror, plexiglas, 150 lights and water, 9’7” x 12’ x 12’

22. Fireflies on the Water, 2002, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York