 |  Launching the Imagination Mary Stewart
Three-Dimensional Design Physical and Cerebral
Chapter Overview
- A pile of wood at a construction site is stacked for convenience and accessiblity. A pile of wood in a sculpture is designed to communicate ideas and emotions.
- Art gains power from its connection to life. Through art, commonplace experiences are distilled, re-examined, and transformed.
- Physical and psychological boundaries can connect or separate art and life.
- A base can distinguish a sculpture from its surroundings, provide structural stability, and expand aesthetic content.
- Physical forces, such as gravity, compression, expansion, tension, and torsion, can be used to express ideas while providing structural strength.
- The materials a sculptor selects can both heighten and deepen the meaning of the artwork.
- Traditional Western sculpture is massive, representational, figurative, and narrative.
- Contemporary sculpture is generally more spatial, abstract, and nonfigurative. Many contemporary sculptors use specific sites, audience participation, temporal change, and explorations of the self to create powerful works.
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