“A sculpture comes alive in clay, dies in plaster, and is reborn in marble.”
One of the things that struck me was during the Through the Eyes of the Sculptor was that the sculptor has to use his feelings to carve "life back into the shape". It seems to be a very intimate process between the artist and the piece. It is such a painstaking process there is no way you could do work like this if it wasn't something that you loved. You can't fake something like this. Carving comes from within. So many things go into making a sculpture that I never even thought of, like if the piece of stone is good or not. Emmanuel Fillion (who is quite handsome) can tell the difference between the sound of a cracked stone or one without a crack. He talks about how shape, modeling and aesthetic are all important and that he has to make sure they all interact together to make his sculpture come alive. Even the transfer of the sculptures from his studio to where they reside takes a lot of thought process. "Bridges" have to be put on the portions where the sculpture is liking to crack. The bridges add stability to the pieces of sculpture that are jutting out and allow for safe travel of the piece. Once its put in place, the bridges are removed. He said that if he can't envision the sculpture in his head first, he can not create it. This shows the connection between sculptor and sculpture. They have to feel it and see it and connect with it. Otherwise it doesn't get created.
Glass and Ceramics video made me laugh immediatly when she said "You are at home, glasses on your head"...so very true as I am wearing glasses. I like that she used the word viscous when she said that glass doesn't come as a solid but rather a viscous solid. Most people do not realize that. I enjoyed the scientific aspect of this video since I am a biology major and have had to take plenty of chemistry. This brought the realization that science and artistry are intertwined in a way. More so than I orignally thought at least. The firing portion of ceramics is so important because it is what determines how the glass will look and what its finish will be. That would be too intense for me to know that your final outcome could be ruined by just one degree!!! I couldn't believe that the glazing process was done by a man actually dipping the pieces into the glaze, swirling it around and then putting on a conveyor belt. I just assumed a machine would do it like all the other processes. Laminated glass has become such an important and vital requirement in Architecture so has to to harm anyone when the glass is broken. It was neat to see the glass being folded and refolded when adding the strengthening element.
Installation Art is large and alive and.....controversial. It over takes whatever space its being developed in. It is in a way a form of sculpture in a way. Installations are three dimensional and its up to the artist to decide how much space it will take up depending on the concept. I think its controversial because of the lack of understanding as to actually what it is. I think its harder for an audience to connect with these types of pieces because they are life-like and in your face. I can't say I actually like Richard Wilson's pieces but they are amazing. It broke my heart to learn that the installation artist Yayoi Kusama has lived in an insane aslum voluntarily, and only coming out to introduce her art!!!!!! She was obsessed with "dot's". It's as if her life is only in existance when it comes to art. It's her only sane form of communication with the outside world. That is just so unreal to me. Susan Hiller described installation art as the relationship between the "images, the space and the viewer" coming together to make the piece/pieces work.
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