What is Sculpture?Art & DesignQCA CurriculumKey Stage 1&2

By Cilik Tripamungkas

NB: The first meeting, introduction

Unit 1C: What is Sculpture?ABOUT THE UNIT

In this unit children develop their understanding of shape, form, texture and the sensory qualities of materials. They learn about the work of sculptors and about different kinds of sculpture, including those made of natural materials. They also learn skills for arranging materials they have collected to make a relief collage and a sculpture.

WHERE THE UNIT FITS IN

This unit builds on Unit 2D ‘Grouping and changing materials’ in the science scheme of work, when children explore materials and objects using appropriate senses, and make observations and simple comparisons.

WHAT THE UNIT COVERS

Craft, Collage, Colour, 3D, Texture, Sculpture, Shape, Individual work, Collaborative work, and Form.

VOCABULARY

In this unit children will have an opportunity to use words and phrases related to:

• natural materials, eg grasses, bark, pebbles, rushes, leaves

• made materials, eg fabric, card, clay tiles, plastic

• reclaimed materials, eg made for one purpose and used again for another purpose

• visual qualities, eg shape, form, colour

• tactile qualities, eg hard, soft, rough, smooth, bumpy, rigid, pliable

• materials and processes, eg sculptor, sculpture, carving, modelling, casting, constructing

RESOURCES

For practical work:

• natural materials, eg stones, pebbles, small logs, roots, slate, twigs, grasses, leaves, petals, creepers, bark, feathers, ferns, seeds, withies;

• made materials, eg card, tubes, straws, wood offcuts, shavings, flexible, transparent and rigid plastic;

• materials for collage, eg card base, glue, dyes or paints for colouring;

• camera, if possible;

• sketchbook, diary or clipboard;

•drawing materials, eg soft graphite pencils, fine black pens, pastels

most children will be able to:

• explore ideas about sculpture; investigate and use materials and processes to

• communicate ideas and meanings in three-dimensional form; comment on similarities and

• differences between their own and others’ work; adapt and improve their own work

some children will not have made so much progress. They will be able to:

• represent ideas in three dimensions; describe what they think or feel about their own and

• others’ work

some children will have progressed further. They will be able to:

• collect visual and other information for their work; investigate shape, form and texture in

• materials to create a three-dimensional form; comment on similarities and differences

• between their own and others’ work; adapt and improve their own work

EXPECTATIONSAt the end of this unit

What do you think sculpture is?

What materials are used to make sculpture?

Sculpture is often about the human body, but sometimes it can be anything.

It can be large or tiny

Can you guess the material used?

Sculpture is made from hard material.

But it can be made out of anything.

“Why the materials used?”Eg. Long lasting, temporary, to resist weather, to convey idea about the subject.

Someone who creates sculptures called Sculptor.

Sculptor who work using materials such asstone, bronze, and wood.

Henry Spencer Moore

An English sculptor and artist. He was best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art.

Born : July 30, 1898, Castleford, United Kingdom

Died : August 31, 1986, Much Hadham, United Kingdom

Periods: Modernism, Modern art

Education: Castleford High School, Royal College of Art, Leeds College of Art and Design

Awards: Erasmus Prize

Man Enters the Cosmos is a cast bronze sculpture by Henry Moore located on the Lake Michigan lakefront outside the Adler Planetarium in the Museum Campus area of downtown Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

Location: Adler Planetarium; Created: 1980 ; Media: Bronze

Nuclear Energy is a bronze sculpture by Henry Moore that is located on the campus of the University of Chicago at the site of world's first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1. Location: University of Chicago

Created: 1964–1966; Genre: Abstract art; Media: Bronze; Subject: Nuclear power

King and Queen is a bronze sculpture by Henry Moore, designed in 1952. It depicts two figures, one male and one female, seated beside each other on a bench.

Location: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Created: 1957; Media: Bronze

Barbara Hepworth

An English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. She was "one of the few women artists to achieve international prominence.“

Born : January 10, 1903, WakefieldDied : May 20, 1975, St Ives, United

KingdomArtwork : Curved Form (Bryher), Two

Figures, MorePeriods : Modernism, Modern art, Abstract

artEducation : Wakefield Girls High School, Royal College of Art, Leeds College of Art and Design

Two Figures

Medium: Bronze

Created: 1968

Curved Form

Medium: Bronze

Created: 1961

Oval Sculpture

Date: 1943, cast 1958

Medium: Plaster on wooden base

Work using natural material.

Andy Goldsworthy

He is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist producing site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. He lives and works in Scotland.

Born : July 26, 1956 (age 57), Cheshire, United Kingdom

Nationality : BritishMovies : Rivers and TidesPeriods : Contemporary art, Land artEducation : University of Central

Lancashire, Bradford College, Harrogate High School

Work using natural mobiles.

Alexander Calder

An American sculptor best known as the originator of the mobile, a type of kinetic sculpture made with delicately balanced or suspended components which move in response to motor power or air currents.

Born : July 22, 1898, Lawnton, Pennsylvania, United States

Died : November 11, 1976, New York, United States

Full name : Alexander Calder

Cirque Calder

An artistic rendering of a circus.

Media: Wire

Lobster Trap and Fish Tail

A mobile

Location: the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, New York, United States.

Created: 1939

Media: Painted steel wire, Sheet metal, Steel wire

Flamingo

a 53 foot tall stabile located in the Federal Plaza in front of the Kluczynski Federal Building in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Wikipedia

Created: October 25, 1974

Work using found materials.

Pablo Picasso

A Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France.

Born: October 25, 1881, Málaga, SpainDied: April 8, 1973, Mougins, France

The Chicago Picasso

An untitled monumental sculpture by Pablo Picasso in Chicago, Illinois. The sculpture, dedicated on August 15, 1967, in Daley Plaza in the Chicago Loop, is 50 feet tall and weighs 162 short tons.

Head of a Woman (Fernande)

Created: 1909

Media: plaster.

Crane

Created: 1951-1952

The next meeting: Arrange to visit to a park, wood, forest, rocky place,

coast or scrubland.

Ask the children to work in pairs and to look for natural sculpture.

Ask them to take a photograph of the sculptures.

Ask them to notice: How is the sculpture arranged? What materials used? What shaped it? What effect did wind, weather, animals have on it?