SCULPTURE

Prepared By: Kerwin D. Palpal

What is Sculpture?
 W H AT A R E T H E B A S I C
SCULPTURAL TECHNIQUES

Say YES if you agree and NO if you disagree in the

statement.

* Is It MODELING? ______

* Is It Fashion? ______

* Is It Mixture? _____

* Is It Carving? _____
* Is It Casting? _____
 MOVING ON…..

What would be the materials to be

used in Sculpture?

So, at the end of the lesson you can

now determine and identify the
materials and types of Sculpture.
 MATERIALS

 Most of its history, Sculpture has been created using four

basic methods:
- Stone Carving
- Wood Carving
- Bronze Carving, and
- Clay Firing
* Addition to this, a rare type was chryselephantine
sculpture, reserved exclusively for major cult statues.
 FIRST, STONE
SCULPTURE
Probably the earliest form
of monumental sculpture.

Avalokitesvara Boddhisattva
Stone Sculpture(58I-6I8) of
the Era of Sui Dynasty art.
 JADE SCULPTURE

 The best-known form of hardstone sculpture has

been a specialty of Chinese master craftsmen.

* Chinese attribute important qualities to Jade,

includes the following;

- purity, beauty, longevity, even immortality and

sculptures value jade stones for their lustre,
translucent colours and shades.
 JADE CARVING
Lion and Serpant Jade ornament

Excavated from king of Chu’s tomb

Western Han Dynasty (206 BCE-9 CE)
 WOOD SCULPTURE
Is the oldest and most
continuous type of sculpture

Wood-carved Statue of Guan

Yin Liao Dynasty (Northern
China)
Shanxi Province, China (907-
II25)
BRONZE SCULPTURE

is a complicated process which was

developed independently in China,
South America and Egypt.

“The Bronze Horseman” (I766-

78)
Equistrian statue of Peter the Great,
By Etienne Falconet

Russian Sculpture
 CLAY SCULPTURE
it is the most plastic of all sculpting
methods, versatile, light,
inexpensive, and durable.

Venus of Dolni Vestonice (26,000-

24,000 BCE)
Found July I925, buried in a layer of
ash in a region of Czechoslovakia.
 TYPES OF
SCULPTURE

 Free-Standing sculpture- which is surrounded on

all sides by space;and
 Relief sculpture- where the design remains
attached to a background, typically stone or wood.
EXAMPLE OF RELIEF SCULPTURE
Gothic Ivory Relief sculpture
of the Passion of Christ(I350-
65)
Depicting the Washing of the
Feet, and the Last Supper.
Biblical art of the I4th
Century
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