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SCULPTURE

Claes
Oldenburg Clothespin,
1976

Contemporary
Sculpture
Sculptures done in the last few
decades share same artistic
directions as those found in the painting.

Style of
Contemporar
y Sculpture

1. Cubist sculpture the style allows


viewer to examine both interior and
suface space, both mass and void of
3D objects. Also derive from African
masks another typical program of
Cubism.

Pablo
Picasso
Femande

2. Dadaist sculpture its style lies in


the artists choice of an ordinary
objects, which is placed somewhere
so that its useful significance
disappears under new title and
point of view.

Man Ray
Cadeau

3. Superrealist Sculpture Superrealist


sculptors are dedicated to finding art
forms the public would understand.
Mistaken for real people often.

Duane Hanson
Couple with
Shopping
Bags

Recent
Directions
in
Sculpture

1. Conceptual Art
artfulness of art lies in the
artists idea

Joseph Kosuth
One and
Three Chairs

2. Environmental Sculpture
- Earth art / earthworks
- includes wide range of artworks,
mostly outdoors
- artists use natural organic
materials

Christo and
Jean Claude
Running
Fence

3. Installations
- site-specific
- usually found objects and presented
in a dynamic manner which encourages
viewer interaction & integration of place
of exhibition

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