Art 101 Sculpture project
I need an explanation for this Art & Design question to help me study.
This final project will ask you to share with us your memories and experience about a particular Public Sculpture in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia has more public sculpture than any other city in the nation. However, I wonder how often in our busy lives we even stop to take note. Most likely, you pass by, either in your car, on foot, bike or bus, each day countless examples of public sculpture. This post asks you to make a conscious effort to “notice” a work that has been more or less hiding in plain view in their corner of Philadelphia. While many of us are not free to go about our usual routines right now, we still have memories of what is around us. Choose a work that is near your work, or on the walk to school, or that you remember from a visit to Center City. Do your best to recreate the experience of standing before the object.
Work this week to choose a work that you have encountered. Take a photo and paste it into your post. Try to size the photo appropriately and think of a single view that best captures the work. These should only be referred to for informational purposes, e.g. artist, name, and date. Otherwise, this is to be your work.
Having said all that, have fun with this. Do your best to apply the lessons from the reading regarding what type of sculpture you are discussing, casting, carving, modeling, assembling? Address the context or setting and why you think it is there exactly, and apply a theme from week three (Getlein, Living With Art, Chapter 3).
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFTALiSRCXo
Sculpture: Government of the People
Jacques Lipchitz, 1976 *See attached image
400 words
