Subtractive+Sculpture




 * Henry Moore was born in England on July 30, 1998. He grew up in Castleford where he became a well-known sculptor. Moore specialized in large scale sculptures (subtractive Sculpture). Subtractive Sculpting is a very distinct form of art. It is a 3-D form where an artist creates a figure by chipping pieces away from a solid block. Henry lived to be 88 years old. Some of his better pieces include: //West Wind, Family Group, Large Arch, Reclining Figure.// **




 * Auguste Rodin(Nov.12, 1984-Nov.17, 1979) By: Jeremiah Wistrom **

He was born with the name Francois-Auguste-Rene Rodin but later changed his name to Auguste Rodin. His parents were Maria Cheffer and Jean Baptiste Rodin. He was born in Paris, France and had normal schooling as a child. In 1864 Rodin submitted his first sculpture for exhibition, //The Man With the Broken Nose.// While in Brussels he created his first full-scale work, //The Age of Bronze,// was inspired by Michelangelo's //Dying Slave.// His works went against most of the traditional sculptural ideas of the time and many were criticized during his lifetime. Some of his other works were //St. John The Baptiste Preaching, The Gates of Hell, The Burghers of Calais//, and quite possibly his most well known sculpture //The Thinker//. Auguste died on Nov. 17, 1979, two weeks after marrying Rose Beuret, in his Paris home.




 * HENRY MOORE (1898-1986)**

Henry Moore was born in Castleford on 30th July 1898. His parents were both strong and had supportive personalities. He became a student teacher in 1915 and was teaching in 1916. He joined the army when he was about 17 years old, he was the youngest member. For him the First World War was not the traumatic experience it was for so many others: he remembers the army as being 'just like a bigger family' and says that 'for me the war passed in a romantic haze of trying to be a hero.'

He went to Leeds school of Art, in september 1919 and in 1921 he won a sholarship to the Royal College of Art in London. When Henry was in London he made the most of it, he visited a bunch of museums. In 1929, Henry Moore married a Russian woman; Irina Radetsky was her name. In 1931 they bought a small cottage together in Kent. He workewd during Royal College holidays. He was obsessed, with the idea of carving so invested a lot of time in that. And in 1932, Moore was able to move to the Chelsea School of Art, which had already approached him. In 1934 he sold his cottage in Kent and bought another, equally small, but with more ground included so he could work in the open air.

After the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 Moore moved from his cottage in Kent to London so he could teach.There were some problems with the Chelsea School so he chose to do something else, he began making the first drawings of people in the London Underground. These came to the attention, and Henry Moore got asked to make larger and more finished versions. When the drawings were shown in 1940 and 1941 Moore began to attract a wide public, who recognized their own feelings in what he had to show them.

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Jordan Davis Juliana Yau



Her sculptures are organic, non-representational forms created by working directly with the stone in both the sculpting and creative processes. They offer no philosophies or political messages, intending purely to be works that draw people to the stone and stir whispers of desire. Through the sculptures, she explored feelings of sensuality and beauty without finding recourse in sexual symbolism. Her latest body of work has been developed exclusively in alabaster, and the nature of the stone adds layers of complexity to the sculptures. While the sculptures compel people to touch them, the softness of the stone necessitates restraint. Hse is also intrigued by the translucency offered by some alabasters, and increasingly push the limits of the delicacy of her sculptures because of it.

Taylor Richardson William Nutt William received a degree in geology from Dartmouth College. After College he competed nationally and internationally in kayaking. He was ranked No. 1 ranked U.S paddler. Then he started doing Fine Arts. Additionally, stone carvings and stone reliefs of mine have been displayed in juried shows at museums and galleries along the east coast, including the Cape Museum of Fine Arts and the Ward Museum of Wild Fowl Art. I am presently represented by the Art of the Sea Galleries in South Thomaston and Rockland, Maine, and Studio 260 in White River Junction, VT. He believes that art, in all probability, is an innate and essential aspect of human life specifically, and most complex life in general. Life in turn provides the inspiration for most of my sculpture. I carve reliefs and full three-dimensional pieces from marble, limestone and dolomite, which are themselves, strangely enough, the metamorphosed remains of life. He likes to apply a high level of technical skill, and superb finish detail and quality to all of my pieces.

mikey b.



(born June 20, 1887, Hannover, Ger. — died Jan. 8, 1948, Little Langdale, Westmorland, Eng.) German [|Dada] artist and poet. Associated with the Berlin Dadaists from 1918, he moved back to Hannover in 1924. He assembled collages and other constructions from everyday objects (train tickets, wooden spools, newspapers, postage stamps); his poems were composites of newspaper headlines, advertising slogans, and other printed ephemera. He referred to all his artistic activities — and later to all his daily activities and even to himself — as //Merz//, the syllable left when he snipped letters from //Kommerzbank// ("Commercial Bank"). When the Nazis declared his art "degenerate" in 1937, he moved to Norway and later to England.
 * Kurt Schwitters,**

At the Dada congress in Weimar in 1922 he met the Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg and thus established connections with the De Stijl movement. In 1923 he began to publish (in irregular intervals) the MERZ magazine and saw the first of his works bought by a museum (Dresden). In 1924 a record was cut of his recitation of the "Ursonate," a sound-poem in the Dada tradition, originally inspired by Raoul Hausmann.  Jesse Rood Myron of Eleutherae



** Myron was an Athenian scultor from the mid-5th century. He was born in Eleutherae on the borders of [|Boeotia] and [|Attica]. According to [|Pliny's Natural History], [|Ageladas] of Argos was his teacher. The traveller [|Pausanias] noted sculptures by Myron that remained in situ in the second century CE. Chionis, a seventh century Olympic victor from Sparta was commemorated in an idealized bronze by Myron. He worked almost exclusively in [|bronze] : and though he made some statues of gods and heroes, his fame rested principally upon his representations of [|athletes], in which he made a revolution, according to commentators in Antiquity, by introducing greater boldness of pose and a more perfect rhythm, subordinating the parts to the whole. Pliny's remark that Myron's works were numerosior than those of [|Polycleitus] and "more diligent" seem to suggest that they were considered more harmonious in proportions (numeri) and at the same time more convincing in their realism: diligentia connoted "attentive care to fine points", a quality that, in moderation, was characteristic of the best works of art, according to critics in Antiquity. His most famous works according to [|Pliny] 's Natural History (34.57-59) were a heifer, a dog (canem, [|Cerberus] ?), a Perseus, a satyr— Marsyas— admiring the flute and Minerva (Athena), a Hercules, which was taken to the shrine dedicated by Pompey the Great at the [|Circus Maximus], [|Discobolus] (the [|discus thrower] ), and an Apollo for [|Ephesus] , "which Antony the triumvir took from the Ephesians, but the deified Augustus restored it again after being warned in a dream". The Early Imperial Roman writers consistently rated Myron among the greatest of Greek sculptors, a sign that his contemporaneous reputation had remained high. **

Andrea Sansovino
==**//Subtractive sculpture// is the oldest form of sculpture and involves removing material, as in wood carving or stone sculpture, to create a finished work. Subtractive sculpture is by far the most technically difficult and due to the nature of the medium is the most restrictive in expression. Andrea Sansovino, c.1460-1529,** named after his place of birth in Monte San Savino, not far from Arezzo. Most of his sculptures are located in Florence, but his most famous works were created in Rome. Examples of these works are the tombs of Cardinal Ascanio Sforza and Cardinal Girolamo Basso della Rovere and the group sculpture Virgin and Child with Saint Anne. From 1513 to 1527, Sansovino was in Loreto working as the head sculptor for the shrine of the Holy House.==

By Brienna Bruce
//**Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni**// Michealangelo lived from March 1475 - Febuary 1564. he was an Italian Renassiance artist. He did paintings, sculptures, & writings (peoms). Michealangelo got the name Reniassance Man from his art. His art had a style that had a sense of emotion in it. Michealangelo thought the male body was beautiful. This thought reflected in his artwork.

Michealangelo had a rought life for the start of it. His mom died when he was seven. He was quoted saying, "If there is some good in me, it is because I was born in the subtle atmosphere of your country of Arezzo. Along with the milk of my nurse I received the knack of handling chisel and hammer, with which I make my figures." His father sent him to school for literature and composition, but he just wanted to do art. Michelangelo studied sculpture under Bertoldo di Giovanni.

By: Jessica McDaniel

**ZUNI INDIAN CARVINGS **  The Zuni Indians are tribe of Native American people who roamed Southwestern United States and are thought to be ancestors of Ancient Pueblo People who lived in the deserts of New Mexico and Arizona. The Zuni Indians are famous for their crafts of jewelry and carvings. Zuni Carvings are made out of various materials and are used for ceremonial purposes for their creators. They often depict animals and symbols relating to their culture. The Materials used by the carvers often included Jet, Shell, Coral, Zuni Rock, Fishrock, Jasper, Pipestone, and Marble, Bone Such as Antler, and Artificials such Slag Glass. Common animals carved out of these materials include bears, birds, elks, rams, buffalo, bunnies, beavers, fish, frogs, lizards, snakes, moles mice, mountains lions, otters, turtles, and wolves. In tradition, each animal on a carving is thought to bring power to the carvings owner, The Zuni believe that certain directions were ruled by certain animals, North was ruled by a mountain lion, South was ruled by a Badger, West was ruled by a Black Bear, east was ruled by a white wolf, below was ruled by a mole, and above was ruled by an eagle. ruled by an eagle. was ruled by an eagle.


 * VEIT STOSS**

Veit Stoss was bron in Swabia, Germany in 1438. He died 1533 in Nurnberg, Bavaria, Germany. His religion was Roman Catholic. He was considered most important representative of late Gothic sculpture in Germany. Stoss had a very independent Gothic style. Some of his main works are: a Relief with the Coronation of the Blessed Virgin in the Germanic Museum at Nuremberg, a Statle of Blessed Virgin in the Frauenkirche, the Annunciation in the Lorenzkirche and the Circular Rosary in the [|Germanic Museum.]

Annunciation By:Deedra Jensen

MADE BY: JOSE RIOS He was born in Racine, Wisconsin. his father, Nels, came from Denmark and his mother, Livia, came from Norway. he graduated from William Horlick High School in 1946 and then attended Dana College in Blair, Nebraska. With intervening periods of work and army service in Korea, he got a B.A. in 1954 with a major in Psychology and a minor in art. he anticipated attending a Lutheran seminary, but upon graduation he decided to go to the University of Wisconsin for more art. Ihe took a year of classes to acquire an art major and then another year to be awarded a Master of Science in Applied Art. he then taught Junior high school art in Davenport, Iowa for a year when he was offered a contract to teach at Jamestown College in North Dakota. It was a small school at the time, so the art faculty person taught all of the courses in art as well as two sections of Freshmen English; however, he made it into college teaching so future jobs were easier to get. After two years, he decided to take a break to attend Luther Seminary in St. Paul, MN. That summer, before he left for St. Paul, he was persuaded to build a tourist attraction for the City of Jamestown. This became my first commission. We decided that it should be a huge cement buffalo. he had made a [|softstone sculpture] with a steel and rock bandage armature as a student, so moving to I-beams, rebar, mesh and blown-on cement was not much of a stretch.



born **Andrea di Michele di Francesco de' Cioni**, (c. 1435 – 1488) was an Italian sculptor, goldfish and painter who worked at the court of [|Lorenzo] de medicine in Florence. His pupils included Leonardo de Vinci, Perugino, Ghirlandaio and Sandro bollcelli, but he also influenced Michelangelo. He worked in the serenely classic style of the Florentine Early Renacience Verrocchio was born in Florence in 1435 to Michele di Francesco Cioni, who worked as a tile and brick maker and, later, as a tax collector. Michele never married, and had to provide financial support for some members of his family. Michele's fame rose upon his joining the Medici court, in which he remained until his workshop moved to Venice.
 * (Roberto Guzman=)Andrea del Verrocchio**, [[image:http://tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:DMorbjVuAU4ShM:http://www.nndb.com/people/900/000084648/andrea-del-verrocchio-1-sized.jpg width="86" height="121" link="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.nndb.com/people/900/000084648/andrea-del-verrocchio-1-sized.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.nndb.com/people/900/000084648/&usg=__38WW89AbyvQhMnIs5YFQBrTjbLc=&h=357&w=255&sz=22&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=DMorbjVuAU4ShM:&tbnh=121&tbnw=86&prev=/images%3Fq%3DAndrea%2Bdel%2BVerrocchio%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4ADBF_enUS248US253%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1"]]

In 1478 Verrocchio began what was to become his most famof the Condetierro collione, who had died three years before. The work was commissioned by the Republi o f venice. It was the first attempt to produce such a group with one of the horse's legs not touching the base. The statue is also notable for the carefully-observed expression of stern command upon Colleoni's face. Verrocchio sent to his commissioners a wax model in 1480, and in 1488 he finally moved to Venice to assist at the casting of the group. However, he died in the same year, before the work was finished ous work, an equestrian statue. After the mid-1470s Verrocchio was devoted mainly to sculptur, at first following the standard Florentine canons. These are well in evidence in the bronze statue of //David//, commissioned by Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici c. 1476 (now at the Barllego ). Verrocchio's David is underage, modestly clad in contrast to Donatellos provocative David, and haughty in his conquest. The Gothic-like, idealistic beauty of the features is closer in spirit to bertighi than to the innovative Donatello.

Some of his famous works:
 * //Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, or Michelangelo//**, (March 6, 1475 - March 18, 1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet. One of his most famous works is the //David//. He lived in Renaissance times. He could paint with both hands. When one hand got tired, he switched to the other hand. Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel as well as painting artwork for the walls of the Sistine Chapel.







**Jacques Lipchitz**

Jacques Lipchitz was born in Druskienski, Lithuania, on 22 August 1891. As a boy, Lipchitz was encouraged to draw. After he graduated from high school, Went to Paris in 1909 to study sculpture. His father, realizing the son's determination, relented and provided him with an allowance.

Adopted Cubist Style In 1912 Lipchitz established his own studio in the Montparnesse district of Paris. It happened to be alongside that of Constantin Brancusi, who helped to expose him to many avant-garde artists, including Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Diego Rivera, and Max Jacob. Lipchitz began producing purely Cubist sculptures around 1915; Headis a typical Lipchitz sculpture from this era. In certain works, such as //Man with a Guitar// (1916), he prefigured the two versions of Picasso's 1921 //Three Musicians.// Although the Cubists heavily influenced Lipchitz, his powerful works also influenced them, including Picasso. In 1916 Lipchitz received support from the dealer Léonce Rosenberg, which permitted him to engage assistants and to launch more ambitious projects. He began to change his angular style, fearing that his work had become too abstract and devoid of humanity.