Leonardo De Vinci - Vitruvian Man
Based on the correlations of ideal human proportions described by Ancient Roman Architect Vitruvius in Book 3 De Architectura.
The Angel of the North, (large scale, crucifix)
Michelangelo - David
Symbol of Republic of Florance concentration of getting ready for battle.
Both symbols of place. Power - Both highly financially backed.
PLINTH - Prestige, Perfection
Marc Quinn - Alison Lapper Pregnant - Plinth in Trafalger Square
Pedastooling, showing the world they have reason for being on the plinth.
Marc Wallinger - Christ on a Plinth - Trafalger Square
Nomally outlandish presentations. When the christ is the put into gallery spaces it has a different context.
Marina Abromavic
Uses her body as sculpture, the object, the subject. Very in your face on how to confront the body.
Sam Taylor Wood - Crying Men
Showing pure emotion, vulnerable side to men.
Womanhood
Women's power
Equality.
Venus of Willendorf - (11cm tall 24 - 22 BC)
Womanhood, no facial features or details, main focus on the body. Looks modern. Why was she represented fat when in them times this would not have been the case? Idealization of the female body.
Jenny Saville
Flesh/body as a revelation. Lucian Freud.
Rebecca Horn
Body Extensions
Kiki Smith - Hanging Woman
Lo Tech materials. Tried using durable materials which changed the context of the piece.
Marc Quinn - Kate Moss (gold)
Contempary, pushing how we see sculpture. Gold elevates the perception.
Cost = Power again
Janine Antoni - Lick and Lather = Chocolate and Soap
Bust, Pedastool similar affect to plinth, erotic. Busts are usually made on very powerful men.
Manipulating the bust
Marc Quinn - Blood bust
Self, high tech, materials are from and about artist. Cannibalistic, the fact that its human blood makes it worse. Detailed.
Magritte - Cloud face
Personalized by painting.
Gabriel Orozco - Black Kites - Checked Skull
Mexican aztec skulls/masks, celebration of the dead. Cultural, social, backgrounds.
Skeleton of a whale which he drew on.
Damien Hirst - Diamond Skull (£50 million) Cost = Power
196? Gilbert and George
Singing sculptures, performance, united together.
George Segal - Casts of life size everyday people in bandage. Quiet peaceful, personal.
Rodin - Burghers of Calais Edward III
Surrender the key of the city to save the city, most sculptures of that time are of success. Was going to be made on ground level so you could walk along side the men was then put on a plinth.
Jaume Plensa - House of Knowledge
Script, knowledge which makes up the body similar to how Da Vinci made up the Vitruvian Man.
Dream - St Helens
20m Tall, financial backing, technical yet personal, minors from the area had a say on what was created.
Seminar Ideas
Time Travel - Need to be contemporary?
Reference to older works
Ideas, imagination, creativeness
Casting link with drawing - craftsmanship, hard work
Tech make the final outcome
Voodoo doll intermacy
Materials -
Blood - cannibalistic, human not animal
Chocolate and soap
Yet still detailed
Status - Monuments? The past?
Sculpture inside or out?
Plinths - something of perfection - Antithesis could be a bigger statement.
Boyes - Talks to a dead rabbit, kyote
Chicago - Public Sculpture
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