BP#5

In the class, we learned that sculpture is a three-dimensioned work of art, or the art making it. Compare to painting which is illusion of 3D space on a flat space, sculpture actually inhabits the space shared by the viewer. The viewer could actually touch it and feel its various texture and forms. The works changes as the viewer moves through space and time.

The sculpture I chose to write about for this post is the sculpture, which is located in the entrance of E building. After you pass the first door, there is this sculpture at the right side, the beginning of the stairs. There is no description of this artwork, so I could not find the name, the artist and the year. This sculpture is the wall sculpture. It is made as the part of the wall. It looks as if the human body comes up through the wall. The style of this sculpture is representational because I can see it is made as human. The material is plaster or might be clay. It is relief because the project is from the background, the wall. The methods are casting and carving. Therefore, it is subtractive. The shape is 3D, the color is white, but the shadow creates gray color. Texture is rough for the human’s hair, smooth for the face and body. There is no pattern. There is negative space around the object to define the positive space of the sculpture. This is statue because it is the three dimensional form of a person.

I was looking the sculpture and thinking about what this pose indicates and the meaning of this artwork. It looks smiling, but also being sad. I like the texture of the head and the pose because these make it unique. I feel the presence of human from this sculpture even though it is just the parts of human body.