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Environmental Art Additional
Abstract Sculpture Student
work
Henry
Moore:
Henry Moore (1898 - 1986) is perhaps the most influential public sculptor of this century. Drawing on his studies of
Classical, Pre-Columbian and African art, Moore created original and truly modern
sculptural forms. Abstractions of organic shapes were his primary motif. His seated, standing, and reclining figures comprise an enduring
vocabulary reflecting the universality of the human condition.
"The
observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form
[and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and
feeds inspiration." ~ Henry Moore
Click here for more
Henry Moore quotes.
"In my
opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form, animals,
people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that can help
you to make a sculpture." ~ Henry Moore as quoted in Five
British Sculptors (Work and Talk) by Warren Forma, 1964.
Henry
Moore
Sculptors
and artist index Mark Harden's Artchive
Henry
Moore Foundation
Comprehensive site-- with biography and works on view. See the macquette
studio and chronology of work.
Henry
Moore - Reclining Figure: Hand at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Henry
Moore - Pre-Columbian Influence
Henry
Moore Encarta ® Encyclopedia Article. Be sure to look at the
photograph of Moore and the two sculpture images.
National
Gallery of Art - Henry Moore
Learn about Moore's works in the 20's, 30's, 40's and more. Listing of images
from the exhibit.
Henry
Moore - Woman in Shell Skirt Bronze
sculpture at Galerie
Rienzo.
Henry
Moore - Alex Rosenberg Fine Art Sculpture and prints. Study how
Moore has abstracted the human form.
Three
Part Reclining Figure Site created by Mary Ann Sullivan,
Bluffton College. Other works on this site by Moore include: The
Archer, Hill
Arches, Large
Arch, Large
Four Piece Reclining Figure, Locking
Piece, Seated
Woman (scroll to Henry Moore), and Upright
Motive No. 1: Glenkiln Cross. See all of the works from the
Hirshhorm Sculpture Gardens.
Hyde
Park- Monuments - Nuclear Energy This Henry
Moore sculpture marks the spot where the nuclear age began.
Henry Moore Online Learn more about
Henry
Moore from any of the links listed by Artcyclopedia.
Henry
More: A Life in Sculpture - video available.
Jean
Arp:
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Jean
Arp Mark Harden's Artchive
.
Bio and images.
Jean
Arp- Idol - Mary Ann Sullivan's site (scroll down). See also Oriform
Jean
Arp - Biography - Guggenheim Works
in the collection.
Jean
(Hans) Arp - images from Artnet.com - 3 pages.
Jean
Arp Sculptures Images from Boston College collection.
Jean
Arp Aquatique
- Walker Art Center
Jean
Arp at Kroller-Muller - photograph by Alan Blackwell
Jean
Arp Knight Torso (scroll down to image) National Gallery of
Art, Australia
Jean
Arp Exhibition- Works at Masterworks Fine Art.
Jean
Arp
Online Jean
Arp
Online Artcyclopedia - Links to more information on
Arp.
Homage
to Jean Arp
Homage
to Jean Arp
Barbara
Hepworth:
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Barbara
Hepworth- Artist Profile British
Abstract Sculptor, 1903-1975. View
her sculpture. Do compare the work of Moore and Hepworth.
Why do you suppose the male sculptors got more attention than the female
sculptors?
New
Art Centre Park Polished
Bronze works. See more work of Barbara
Hepworth
Barbara
Hepworth - Mark Harden's Artchive
Barbara
Hepworth Figure for Landscape - at the
Hirshhorn.
Barbara Hepworth Online
Isamu
Noguchi:
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Quote: "Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without
hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture". ~ Isamu Noguchi
Isamu
Noguchi Garden Museum
Excellent
site with images of gardens, fountains, sculptures, playgrounds, monuments
and theater sets. Biographical information, too. Japanese/American Sculptor,
1904-1988.
Biography-
PBS American Masters: Isamu Noguchi
The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum Japan
Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum Japan.
Isamu
Naguchi Biography and images of lamps, sculptures
and furniture designs. - four pages plus links. From Serial-Design.com.
Artcyclopedia -
Isamu Noguchi Online Guide to pictures of
works by Isamu Noguchi in art museum sites and image archives worldwide.
David
Smith:
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page]
David Smith
Brief biography
from the Guggenheim. Works
in the collection.
David
Smith American Sculptor, 1906-1965 - Works in the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden
(scroll down) Works
in the National Gallery Sculpture Garden - images from Mary Ann
Sullivan
David
Smith Chronology - Thumbnails link to larger images. From David Smith
Estate.
David
Roland Smith (1906-1965) American Sculptor. Artcyclopedia
Cubi
- Homage to David Smith Work by Tom
Brewitz.
Alexander
Calder
(Additional Calder Links):
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Alexander
Calder Foundation
Read about Calder's life a view his works. Works
organized chronologically--click on the timeline.
Alexander
Calder (1898 - 1976) National Gallery of Art Virtual
Tour- (needs QuickTime)
Alexander
Calder Online - American Kinetic Artist, 1898-1976. Links from
Artcyclopedia.
Charles
Ginnevera American
Sculptor, born in 1931
Charles
Ginnevera - Artcyclopedia
Charles
Ginnevera - I. Wolk Galleries
Charles
Ginnevera
Interesting planar sculpture - welded steel. Works to inspire student
cardboard or foam core board sculptures.
Christo
and Jeanne-Claude: Environmental Sculpture
Christo
and Jeanne-Claude
Christo
and Jeanne-Claude
Bulgarian/American Environmental
Artist, Born 1935. This website features photos, information and history
authorized by Christo & Jeanne-Claude. Lots of information.
Christo
and Jeanne Claude Lecture at Stanford University
Christo
and Jeanne Claude Lecture at Stanford University
Excellent site from Stanford
University. Read essays by Christo and learn about his work. Click thumbnails
for larger views. Additional
Web links listed.
The
Roving Eye: Christo and Charles Shultz
The
Roving Eye: Christo and Charles Shultz
Magazine feature showing the relationship
between Christo and Charles Schultz.
Christo
and Jeanne-Claude: Gentle Disturbances
Article featuring the work of
Christo. Has small images.
Christo -
Online Visit some additional
museum sites featuring the work of Christo and Jeanne-Claude - recommended
by Artcyclopedia.
More
Environmental Art:
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Andy
Goldsworthy Landscapes of the Mind - Smithsonian article.
Andy
Goldsworthy Online - Artcyclopedia
Lynne Hull's
Environmental Installations: Creating Trans-species art and sculpture
for wildlife. Read about
eco-art and view the gallery.
See her work from Wyoming to Kenya.
Patrick
Dougherty Patrick
Dougherty "Stick Works" allude to nests, cocoons, hives, and
lairs built by animals, as well as the manmade forms of huts, haystacks,
and baskets, created by interweaving branches and twigs together. Many of
his works look 'found' rather than made.
Beth
Galston - Environmental sculpture - leaf installations, outdoor
sculpture and more. She builds architectural-scale environments based on
her interest in light and the quality of space. Using delicate materials
-- scrim, metal mesh, resin, shadows, plants. Collecting leaves, acorns,
branches, and seed pods, she preserve them by making castings of their
shapes or embedding them in translucent resin
Lucien
den Arend See these environmental works and more. He works with
various techniques and materials, not being bound to one specialization. Lucien
den Arend Environments and Landscape Projects
Robert
Smithson See Spiral Jetty and other Earthworks.
Smithson is most well known for his provocative earthwork, the Spiral
Jetty, made in 1970. He gained international recognition for his
groundbreaking art which was not limited by genre or materials.
Earthworks
- links to more sites - contemporary and ancient
Art-Review:
Groeneveld Castle in Baarn Eleven artists have been invited by the
Dutch Sculptors' Association to make installations either using natural
material or reacting to nature. (click on picture to see all in the
collection)
People's
Sculpture Environmental sculpture plus public art. Sculpture and
design studio based in Taipei, Taiwan and Berkeley, USA. The work of
People's Sculpture seeks to create dialogues among people, culture,
environment, and social and political events and to reflect the spirits of
place and time.
More
Sculpture Links:
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Thinking
Big: 21st Century British Sculpture
Sculpture at Greenwood. Lots of ideas - macquettes and drawings to show
your students, too
Grounds
for Sculpture
Click on Collections for images
Modern
Sculpture Source of contemporary modern art and artists' quotes.
Click
on Sculpture.
Eduardo
Chillida -Online Spanish Abstract Sculptor. Works viewable on the
Internet--from Artcyclopedia.
Chris
Diersen Contemporary sculptor from California Carved
Plaster macquettes
Ralph
Prata - Concrete relief sculptures - carved and cast. Hand painted
mats add a striking frame. Abstract works inspired by music. Work shows
influence from tribal cultures. New York artist.
Tomás
Crespo Rivera - Sculptor from Spain.
Abstract and figurative works.
Sarasota
Season of Sculpture 22 abstract works. Sarasota, Florida.
Sam
Spiczka Contemporary sculptor from
Minnesota - wonderful abstract work.
Bruce
Beasley Metal sculpture, cast acrylic, metal and wood, and bronze
sculptures. Abstract forms yet Beasley has drawn his inspiration from
natural structures, rather than the built environment. Science and the
microscope have changed the modern artist's understanding of nature. From
California.
Robert
Kantor - Welded Steel and kinetic sculpture - Mobiles (see the
maquettes). Idaho artist.
Stan
Smokler Welded steel sculpture - many with found objects. Studios in
New York and Pennsylvania.
Kenneth
Snelson - concerned with nature in its primary aspect,
the patterns of physical forces in three dimensional space. Click on
Structures to see how weaving and mathematics are very much a part of his
work. Computer images too. From Oregon.
Kyle
Van Lusk Works in bronze, iron and steel combined with stone. Outdoor
sculpture is very geometric while his other sculptures have an organic
feel as well. From North Carolina - Lusk continues to create
sculpture that reflects his mountain home.
Sculptor.org-
Sculpture
Links. Scroll down to choose sculptors by medium or by country
and region.
Abstract
Sculpture - Lesson Plans and Resources
Abstract
Sculptures
Los
Cerros Middle School - Bunki Kramer, instructor. Look for Picasso Faces - Sculptures
Abstract
Sculptures Sharon Kennedy, instructor.
Lesson Plan
Abstract
Sculptures
- Mitchell Middle School - Renee Berge, instructor
Scrap
Wood Sculpture
- Elementary lesson from KinderArt.
Images
of Me: An Inquiry Based Sculpture Unit
features “moveable” reproductions of Chicana/o sculptures and four
lesson plans. Secondary students reflect on their own identities and
express those identities in sculptural form.
See
For Yourself: Sculpture provides middle-school students and
teachers with interactive learning experiences about sculpture and an
introduction to select works of art from the collections of each
institutions. Created by The Saint Louis Art Museum and Laumeier Sculpture
Park
Up
Close: A Focus on Contemporary Sculpture, which consists of six
units of study on contemporary sculpture. Collaboration by The
International Sculpture Center, Grounds for Sculpture and Nottingham High
School in Hamilton, New Jersey
Figurative
Sculpture
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See
Fine Art Dolls and Artists and Art Styles
Ed
Hamilton
- sculptor of historic African Americans.
See monumental public works and mixed media sculptures in "From the
Other Side". Site includes biography. From Kentucky.
Lawrence
"Bud" Mayes
-
bronze castings - Western theme
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