Soft Sculptures

I am trying to exemplify Claes Oldenburg's soft sculptures. I am using newspaper for the structure and covering it with plaster strips, painting it with gesso and then using acrylic paints. I am making a domino, a jack with a ball, and a puzzle pieces; all objects that are normally small in size and increasing their scale.

Bernini

Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, 1598–1680)
Model for the Fountain of the Moor, 1653
Terracotta, 31 3/4 x 16 3/4 x 16 1/2 in.
(80.5 x 42.5 x 41.9 cm)
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth

This picture is Bernini's model for the Moor that is apart of his fountain that stands at the southern end of the Piazza Navona.  It's his largest clay model and it depicts the god of the seas taming a dolphin while riding a large conch.  I really love how he differentiated the shell, the scales of the dolphin and the muscular taut skin.  The detail to the gods face if incredible, its bold and commanding of attention.  The model was highly finished and was the final piece presented to the Pope to receive his approval.  The exotic features of the sea god is why they named him the Moor and that also became the name of the fountain itself. 

phantasma Kris kuksi

Abstract Bas Relief

I have changed my project quite a few times. I am not working on an abstract piece of bas relief including the movement of water, similar to what is seen above. I, however did not include the actual object that is causing the movement of the water, it is just the shape and look of the water alone. 

Peter Voulkos

Bull in a China Shop

Untitled 

Peter Voulkos 1924–2002, American artist from Greek Decent. He was consider an abstract expressionist due to his surreal and spontaneous relationship in creating ceramic plates. Voulkos’s hefty clay sculptures smashed the boundaries and constraints of utilitarian ceramics with three categories of work: “ice buckets,” “plates,” and “stacks.” His work relates to my dinner set that I am making out of clay. The imperfections makes his pieces and mine perfect.  

Arneson

This is another piece by Arneson that he puts a body part on an object. Again he uses a penis but places it on the spout of a teacpot. All his ideas are out there and somewhat raunchy but this is what he was known for. I really like emulating this particular style

Cornucopia - Damien Hirst

I have always enjoyed the idea of mini sculptures. I enjoyed these mini skulls because they related to my series in a sense, but they also remind me of little marbleized colored glass marbles. I like how each one of them is unique. I am curious to look into more of this "Neo-pop-art" which was the style used to sculpt this series. I also wonder how he made each form identical but color different.

Eddie Dominguez -

Very different from any of Dominguez's other works, “El Hombre de Clavos (The Nail Man),” 15 in. (38 cm) in height, is handbuilt earthenware with nails.

America

This is a very small scaled sample of what my finished product will look like. I used a lot of tires in my sculpture, as well as some antiques and some rusted "junk" that proved to be a challenge during the assembly process.

Hey look a centaur

The support in the middle was probably a good idea since the front legs are so thin. Too late now.

Ikebana

These pieces are from Dale Chihuly's Ikebana collection. He was inspired by organic and floral elements. They are both so delicate looking, and have so much movement. It's hard to imagine them being made out of glass. He enrolled in courses on glasswork after graduating from the University of Washington.

Beer Can House

I chose to model my project off of this house in Houston, TX.  The walls are held up by one structure but made out of flatten beer can strips.  Because of the scale of my project I will only be making two rooms, a dining room and a kitchen, however I will also be making a car to go outside of it and furniture. 

Some more wire figures!!

I would like to add more detail to my wire figures. Currently they are very simple, but Calder's have much more detail and I would like to have mine at least have a little but more detail to them as well.

Nevelson and modrain

These two piece resemble my final project. The sculpture of nevelson represents the same structure that my sculpture will have (the box like form ). The Modrain painting shows the simplicity  of my project that I will paint it. Each pair of boxes will be painted red, white, blue and yellow and then painting the outer edges black like it is in the painting. 

Soft sculpture Cona

I chose a soft sculpture installation because our final projects are installations. This artist was featured in a gallery in Australia. My piece is the coming together of three soft sculptures to represent myself.

I chose to blog about the sculpture piece I found online. It sort of represents my final piece because I sculpted a street sign also. I'm not too sure what the artist was getting at when creating this piece since I couldn't find any description, however, in my eyes I think it represents how as people we go in all directions in our lives. This kind of reflects my four pieces I created bc they all represent my journey and even after graduation I will still be going in all different types of directions in my life.

Kiki Smith Sculpture

I chose this Kiki Smith sculpture because it was very different. I like how she incorporated the head of a human with the torso of a bird. It's very different. and not something that one is used to seeing in art, yet it seems to have a sense of humor and works in this sense. I like how there are also multiple birds and in different sizes.

kiki smith Mary Magdelene

This piece is called Mary Magdalene (1994). This sculpture made of silicon bronze and forged steel. Smith is a non traditional female nude sculptor. he figure is without skin everywhere but her face, breasts and the area surrounding her navel. She wears a chain around her ankle; her face is relatively undetailed and is turned upwards. Smith has said that when making Mary Magdalene she was inspired by depictions of Mary Magdalene in Southern German sculpture, where she was depicted as a "wild woman".  

Kiki Smith: Daisy Chain

Kiki Smith: Daisy Chain 

Kiki Smith, is German-Born American artist. Her inspiration deals with birth and regeneration. “It’s what preoccupies you. It takes a long time and it changes, but you follow what is interesting and you just sort of find what works.” Her idea of art is very different from what I known, it brings different ways to looking abstract inspiration. 

My Blue Lake

I chose My Blue Lake, because I was feeling some type of way about this husky fella that is the center of this picture.  This is picture was painted in 1995.  I like the way the blues and yellows mesh to give the creature in the center a more full feel.