Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Guide To Aluminum Wall Sculpture

By Olivia Rodriguez


The sculptures is one of fine arts. Unlike paint, which creates a plan -a fictional space of two dimensions-, sculptures does a flat or three-dimensional relief exempt, using real space. The sculptor acts on different materials transformed by carving and modeling processes, which are traditional methods (aluminum wall sculpture).

Using different combinations of materials and media has created a new artistic repertoire includes processes such as assembly and constructivism. In a generic sense, the term plastic sculptures artwork made by sculptor. Since ancient times, man has had the need to carve. At first he did with the simplest materials and had to hand: the stone, clay and wood; then use iron, bronze, lead, wax, plaster, clay, polyester resin and plastics reinforced fiberglass, concrete, kinetic and light reflection, among other.

The 'Greek sculptures reached a high degree of perfection, quality driven came looking for a better expression of beauty of human figure; even established a canon with proportions considered "perfect." Unfortunately, the Charioteer of Delphi, the pair of Riace bronzes together with the Artemision Bronze part of few Greek sculptures in bronze preserved complete. One of most significant artists of classical period was Praxiteles, author of Hermes and the Infant Dionysus. During the Hellenistic period observed in creation of sculptures there is a clear intention to intensify the movement and accentuate the emotions, as you can see the sculptures of Laocoon and His Sons.

The first manifestations sculptures dating back to Paleolithic, when the man cut all the flint percudint it against another stone; subsequently used engraving and stone relief and animal bones. 27,000 and 32,000 years ago are represented in a lush female stone human figures, in exaltation fertility; are the "prehistoric Venus" as the Venus of Willendorf and the Venus of Lespugue. During the Magdalenian period were used sticks and boosters with ornamental motifs. In Upper Paleolithic, the examples are more abundant carvings or engravings objects that evolved from a more primitive stage, decorations schematic, reaching figures representing adapted to structure of bone .

Notably commemorative sculptures such as the Column of Trajan (114), which narrates several battles in a continuous spiral that covers the entire surface of column, or the Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius.

One type sculptures that took place, however, were portraits, realistic works with a distinctly psychological that were made throughout the Roman Empire. The most important sculptures of Byzantine Empire are the work of ornamental capitals; There are good examples of Ravenna San Vidal. Were common in ivory reliefs applied to boxes, leaflets or famous Chair ofBishop Maximilian, cut a piece about the year 550.

The decoration of all their belongings, swords, shields, tiaras and brooches you can understand the reasons for animals, plants and human figures. From the first century BC minted coins following the Hellenic models, as well as figurative works Bouray of God, made in embossed copper plate. In Mesopotamia, due to scarcity of stone, the sculptures was made primarily with clay; excavations at Ur (4000 BC) have been numerous small statues of this material. The Sumerians developed and spread to other civilizations use of brick, which then sculpted and enameled relief. Some good examples are representative that adorn palaces and burial surfaces Persian palace of Persepolis and the Frieze of Archers, glazed brick work that is in Royal Palace of Susa (404-359 BC).

During this period, production religious sculptures in Spain is amazing sculptures for interiors of churches, facades, and private devotions for Easter; emerged two schools: the Spanish and Andalusian. Among the sculptors can stand Gregorio Fernandez, Juan Martinez Montanes, Francisco Salzillo, Pedro de Mena and Alonso Cano. Inmid-eighteenth century, Winckelmann guidelines of "good taste in food sources and direct the example ofworks ofGreeks" made many artists devoted to copy instead of imitating; Neoclassicism came.




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