some history of western sculpture 1700s - 2010s
- Neoclassicism 1760-1850 reviving styles of Greece and Rome
- marble sculpture contracted by rich ppl
- romanticism mid 19th century, emphasises the individual, subjective, irrational, cheerful and carefree
- propaganda pieces, romanticism of war
- realism mid to late 19th with depiction of the ordinary, photography
- French revolution
- sculpture of everyday ppl, age of bronze
- Impressionism late 19th as the industrial revolution happened, painters now paint outside with tubes and sculptors have more access to materials
- Mixed media sculpture
- he’s broke so he mixed up materials - that’s how most mixed media happens really, use what you have
- cheap for volume and expensive for detail
- art nouveau late 19th to early 20th
- again related to industrialisation as could cast iron for decorative arts
- expressionism late 19th to early 20th. Emotion not fact
- war expressionism, German expressionists
- work on motion, precursor to kinetic sculpture
- war commentary rather than propaganda pieces
- cubism early 20th representing perspectives on one plane
- in sculpture, exploring simplified shape
- futurism early 20th celebration of tech innovation and dynamism
- expressing movement
- constructivism early to mid 20th, industrial materials and volume through planes
- new materials, acrylic, kinetic constructions
- dada early 20th rejection of societal norms, ready made, pranks, irony
- surrealism early to mid20th, unconscious, dream imagery, automatism and meditative state
- balanced sculpture, working with the wind
- abstract expressionism mid 20th, peak modernism
- minimalism mid to late 20th, inherent quality of materials and their interactions
- pop art mid to late 20th imagery from mass culture , huge scales
- postmodernism late 20th eclectic mixtures , ironic and critical, concepts
- tax deducted art and money laundering. Vs collecting long art
- contextualising your art in past present and future
- where is that somewhere else we are taking art work