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Environmental sculpture

Emma

Kious

What are environmental

sculptures?Environmental sculptures are pieces of art that are either digitally or physically placed into

an environment

Famous environmental

sculptors• Henry Moore• Jean Arp• Claus Goldenberg• …

Henry Moore

Henry Spencer Moore

• Henry Moore was a famous English artist and sculptor. He is mainly famous for his semi-abstract bronze pieces of work, placed everywhere around the world in public places, as environmental sculptures.

• He was a teacher and went to the army before starting off as an artist

Henry Spencer Moore• In the army, he drew sketches of underground

tunnels making a spooky effect• How did he make that spooky effect?• By using wax crayons and watercolor paint• “I hit upon this technique by accident, sometime

before the war when doing a drawing to amuse a young niece of mine. I used some of the cheap wax crayons in combination with a wash of water-color, and found, of course, that the water-color did not ‘take’ on the wax, but only on the background.”

Jean Arp

Jean Arp or Hans Arp

• He was a German then French sculptor, painter, and poet

• He is best known as a surrealist painter and as a founder of Dadaism, an artistic and literary movement

• Jean Arp in France, Hans Arp in Germany

My sculpture• When I started moving the wires around, I really

saw a sort of tree coming out. I decided to make the bottom of the sculpture pretty thin and then slowly going thicker, like a tree.

• Then, when I painted it, I didn’t make the bottom brown and the top green, I decided to make it a bit different and make it all green with the base brown.

• Then, it looked too simple so I outlined the wires with black, so it might look like some branches or like banyan trees, roots.

Result• Finally, when I had to put it into Photoshop, I

decided to put it in an environment that had many trees and, well, I found this really cool picture and this is how it looks like: