Additive Sculpture
Simply put, additive sculpture is the process of creating sculpture by adding material or building up material to create the work
Types of Additive Sculpture
• Modeling
• Assemblage
• Paper Mache
• Welding/Soldering
• Etc.
Some Images of Additive Sculpture
Leo Sewell
Imperial Penguin, 1981, found objects.
Gretchen Lothrop
SHAKTI C. 1998stainless steel125" x 59" x 40"
Tom Bartel
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
• Claes – Swedish sculptor
• Coosje - Dutch/American pop sculptor
• They were married in 1977
Brief Bio
• Most memorable from the collasal sculpture they have made of mundane objects
• Considered Pop Art• Pop art was when artists challenged
tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art.
Deborah Butterfield
A little background
• An american Sculptor
• Focuses on a single subject – the horse
• Has loved horses since early childhood
• Sees her sculptures as an attempt to communicate and identify with the powerful creatures who have played such a vital role in human civilization – simply put,
When looking at her sculptures, think about the following:
• Do they look like real horses?
• What materials were used to create them?
• Are they young, frisky colts, wild stallions, or tired old work horses?
Images of her work