Sculpture
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This document discusses three key elements of sculpture: shape, mass, and line. It defines shape as a 2D enclosed area, mass as the solid material contained within a sculpture's surface, and line as a continuous mark with length and direction. It then provides images and questions to analyze several classical sculptures including The Thinker, Flying Horse, Discobolus, and an unnamed figure, examining their shapes, masses, details, implied motions, and other artistic elements.
Sculpture
- 1. Shape, Mass, andLine IN SCULPTURE
- 2. SHAPE An enclosed areadefined and determined by other art elements; 2-dimensional.
- 3. The mass ofsculpture is the solid, material, that is contained within it’s surface.
- 4. LINE A mark withlength and direction. A continuous mark made on a surface by a moving point.
- 5. ? by AugusteRodin
- 6. What do yousee? What is the figure doing? What do you think this sculpture is called?
- 7. The Thinker byAuguste Rodin
- 8. What doe youthink he is thinking about? How does Rodin tell you what the man is doing? How did he make his figure look very still?
- 10. What do yousee? Does it look like it’s going fast or slow? How can you tell? What is the back right leg resting on? How did the artist make the horse look alive and full of action? How did the sculptor make the animal appear strong? How would it feel to ride on this?
- 11. Why do youthink one foot is touching the bottom if it is called the Flying Horse? Flying Horse, One leg Resting on a Swallow
- 12. What do yousee? What is this figure doing?
- 13. Do you thinkhe will throw the discus far? Why? When you throw something heavy, does your face look like this? The Discobolus (Discus Thrower)
- 14. Are there anydetails that might suggest this is from ancient Greece? Would your body look like this if you were throwing a disk? If you walked around this statue and looked at the back of it what would you see?