WESTERN SCULPTURE ART

Franky

CONTENTS
Introduction
Ancient Egyptian
sculpture
Ancient Greek sculpture
Ancient Rome sculpture
Medieval Christian Era
Renaissance
Eighteen, nineteenth Century in France
Modern sculpture

INTRODUCTION
Western sculpture can be divided into prehistoric sculpture, classical sculpture and
modern sculpture. For this presentation, I want to show something more about
classical sculpture and modern sculpture.
The tradition of classical sculpture comes from ancient Greek and ancient Rome. And
many elements and concepts of Greek and Rome come from ancient Egyptian
sculpture.

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SCULPTURE

Egyptian art is famous for its distinctive figure convention,
with parted legs (where not seated) and head shown as
seen from the side, but the torso and eyes seen as from the
front. The characters appearances are very realistic. The
characters are arranged in order , even animals appear in
row.
This realistic model derives from the Egyptians' belief that
features are important parts of a person 's life, and also for the
soul can easily find his or her place to live.

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SCULPTURE

However, this kind of convention is not a vivid expression of
emotion, people in those paintings or sculptures will never
change the stable expression, so the image gives a sense of
indifference.
Besides, The Egyptian sculpture has the function of offering
sacrifices and religion

sphinx

ANCIENT GREEK SCULPTURE

If the aesthetic ideals of ancient Egyptian
sculpture is the pursuit of "eternal", and the
aesthetic ideal of ancient Greek sculpture is the
pursuit
"truesculpture
beauty is more idealistic and
Ancient of
Greek
simple, but it gives us a original feeling of beauty.
Ancient Greek myths and legends are the sources
of ancient Greek art, and also the theme of ancient
Greek sculpture.
People from ancient Greek believed that gods had
the similar form of human. Therefore, they referred
to the image of people to shape the gods.

ANCIENT GREEK SCULPTURE

The body focus falls on the right foot, the left foot
against the ground, knees bent into an obtuse
angle, the whole body has produced an intense
explosive force and elastic feeling.
The shape of the body is tense, and the expression
of the head gives a calm and smooth impression,
which is the pursuit of the classical style.
It has become a symbol of praise for the beauty of
the female body. The proportion of each part of the
sculpture almost contains the golden section of
the aesthetic secret

Discobolus

Venus

ANCIENT GREEK SCULPTURE

Why people always make sculpture naked?
There is a perspective, that the ancient Greeks
love to make naked sculpture, is because at that
moment, there are many wars people have to
fight, and sports are very popular in Greece. For
example, early Olympic athletes are naked while
playing sports, matches. So people considered
naked as to show the beauty of the human body.
At that time, people thought the ideal person
should be well developed, well proportioned,
vigorous, and good at sports

ANCIENT ROME SCULPTURE

It is more secular than the ancient Greek sculpture style. Many military
strategists and politicians in Rome asked the sculptor to create a sculpture
for them.
In this period, sculpture in a realistic way to express the character's
character, and make this technology improved by making leaders sculpture.
But in the form of art, it is similar to that of ancient Greece. Rome sculpture
follows the tradition of the "true beauty" of the Greek sculpture.

MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN ERA

With the death of the West Rome empire in the fifth Century, it began to be called
the dark middle era, and it was ended in the Italy Renaissance in fifteenth Century.
The coming of the Middle era indicated the arrival of the Western country walked into
the Christian era.

In this period of time, religion made a deep influence on sculpture. The sculpture works
mostly with a strong color of asceticism. Appreciating the beauty of body, sex, or
naked was forbidden.

MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN ERA

Under the teaching spirit of the Christian,
the Gothic art has made brilliant
achievements.
It Fully used in praise of God and the Christian
spirit. Its style was one hundred percent match
the historical and cultural background, so gothic
art became the most popular sculpture form.
Notre Dame de Paris was built in this period of time.

RENAISSANCE
Sculpture had suffered from Medieval Era for a long time so that it
produced the extraordinary power in fifteenth Century, Renaissance.
Because of the reaffirmation of the value of our own self, The artist
reselect the object of human being as the symbol of aesthetics and the
object of the pursuit.
Most of the work is to praise the hero, rather than
to shape the image of God.

RENAISSANCE
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti
Simoni

Michelangelo's works reveal a strong humanistic color.

David stared at the enemy, with calm expression. Brave,

composed, and confident.

David

RENAISSANCE
Baroque Art
The first is the luxurious features, both religious characteristics and
hedonism colors
The second is full of passion, to break the quiet
and harmonious, with a strong romantic color, and
it emphasized the movement and change, the
works always show in dynamic ways.
The most important feature of Baroque sculpture is
no longer carved into a resting posture, but always
in the movement.

Apollo and Daphne

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Rococo Art
It is derived from the Baroque art
Delicate artistic effect, the form is complicated. the
reaction was social enjoyment, luxury atmosphere

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Neoclassicism
Regress to explore the ideal of beauty as the
fundamental principle, emphasizing the
integration of architecture, art, sculpture, full of
idealism feelings
Against Rococo art. No luxury atmosphere, no
complicated.

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Romanticism
The pursuit of passion, regard the feelings and
imagination as the most important factors in the
creation
Most of the works express strong emotion, and are
full of energy.

Marseillaise

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Realism
Close to daily life and find inspiration in reality.
Auguste Rodin
He was good at characterize a person in a
hard life. Real life portrayal.
What we are engaged is not how lifelike it is,
but the expression of sculpture is an outward
expansion of vitality
Rodins The Thinker

MODERN SCULPTURE
Compared with the traditional sculpture, it has vivid color and
imagination.
Cubism

Based on the
structure of
geometric figure

Futurism

Constructivism

Beyond science and

technology

Light and transparent materials,

reflecting the concept of space, time
and movement

MODERN SCULPTURE
Compared with the traditional sculpture, it has vivid color and
imagination.
Dadaism

surrealism

There is no definite artistic

conception, but based on the
destruction of the old rules. Refuse
to follow the old standard of what is
beautiful.

In order to show the illusion, dream, the impact on

the vision

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