RELIEF SCULPTURE

TEXTURE, BALANCE, , RELIEF, CARDBOARD, NEVELSON

TEXTURE

HOW THINGS FEEL OR LOOK LIKE THEY MAY FEEL WHEN TOUCHED.

2 FORMS OF TEXTURETACTILE/ REAL TEXTURE

ACTUAL TEXTURES THAT YOU CAN FEEL.

HAPPENS WHEN YOU TOUCH SOMETHING.

VISUAL/ IMPLIED TEXTUREILLUSION OF A 3D SURFACE. HAPPENS WHEN YOU LOOK

AND YOUR EYES TELL YOU TO EXPECT A TEXTURE.

REAL TEXTURES- ACTUAL TEXTURES THAT YOU CAN FEEL.

PROBLEM- HOW DO I CREATE REAL TEXTURES THROUGH THE MANIPULATION OF CARDBOARD?

CREATE 8 EXAMPLES OF CARDBOARD TEXTURES

BALANCE

A PRINCIPLE OF DESIGN CONCERNED WITH VISUAL WEIGHT

CAUSES YOU TO FEEL THAT THE ELEMENTS IN THE WORK ARE ARRANGED WELL.

Formal Balance1.Symmetrical2.Radial

Informal Balance3. Asymmetrical

In the Visual

Arts, balance is

seen and not

weighed.

• FORMAL BALANCE• DEF: TWO HALVES OF THE

COMPOSITION ARE IDENTICAL, MIRROR IMAGES OF EACH OTHER

PREDICTABLE, STABLE

SymmetricalBalance

• FORMAL BALANCE• DEF: ELEMENTS OF THE DESIGN

COME OUT FROM A CENTER POINT

• HAS 4-8 MATCHING UNITS• VERY SIMILAR TO SYMMETRY

RadialBalance

• INFORMAL BALANCE• DEF: A BALANCE OF UNLIKE

ELEMENTS.• STILL REQUIRES THE

FEELING THAT THE OBJECTS ARE BALANCED VISUALLY.

AsymmetricalBalance

LOUISE NEVELSON

LOUISE NEVELSON1899-1988UKRAINIAN AMERICANABSTRACT SCULPTOR

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EARLY LIFEBORN 1899 IN KIEV, UKRAINE

• FAMILY LEFT THEIR COUNTRY DUE TO DISCRIMINATION AGAINST JEWISH PEOPLE IN RUSSIAN IN 1905

• FATHER OWNED A LUMBER YARD• PARENTS THAT WERE VERY

PROGRESSIVE FREE THINKERS. • HER FATHER BELIEVED THAT WOMEN

SHOULD HAVE EQUAL RIGHTS.

LEAH BERLIAWSKY

A NEED FOR INDEPENDENCE

• MARRIAGE AND MOTHERHOOD CAME SHORTLY AFTER LEAVING HOME

• GREW RESTLESS WITH THE EXPECTATIONS OF HER NEW TITLES

• WANTED TO STUDY ART, MOVED TO GERMANY

Following high school, Leah becomes Louise Nevelson

1930’S- LEAVES FOR GERMANY TO STUDY ART WITH HANS HOFFMAN

• THE SCHOOL WAS SOON CLOSED BY THE NAZI’S

• MOVED TO NEW YORK AND CONTINUED HER STUDY

• BECAME A “STARVING ARTIST” AND FOUND HERSELF LOOKING FOR MATERIALS THAT HAD BEEN DISCARDED.

ASSEMBLAGE ART- WORK CREATED BY COMBINING EXISTING INDIVIDUAL OBJECTS INTO A WHOLE.

Nevelson dipped her found objects and wood scraps into paint and then assembled her sculptures. She later evolved into working within crates which were joined together to create larger pieces.

THE SIZE AND SCALE OF HER WORK HELPED NEVELSON TO GAIN RESPECT AND INTEREST IN HER WORK.

Dawn’s Wedding1959

Homage to 6,000,0001964

Nevelson worked with ideas that were important to the person she was. She did not

want to be seen as a Woman artist, but as just an artist equal to other artists.

RELIEF SCULPTURE

RELIEF SCULPTURESCULPTURE THAT PROJECTS FROM A FLAT SURFACE INTO NEGATIVE SPACE. THE POSITIVE AREAS COME TOWARD THE VIEWER.