CONTEMPORARY

SCULPTURE
Art Production
Contemporary Art 12
Sculptural processes are done in ways most suitable to the
available material.
Stone Wood
Metal Bronze

Wax Resin
Terracota Clay
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Casting
Modeling

Carving
Assembling
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Modeling
Modeled sculptures are created when a
soft or malleable material such as clay,
is built using an armature and then
shaped to create a form. Modelling is an
additive process.
Bronze sculpture of Julie Lluch
tribute for Pacita Abad
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Carving
Carving involves cutting or chipping away a
shape from a mass of stone, wood or other
hard material. Carving is a subtractive
process where the material is systematically
eliminated from the outside.
Franco Cagayat, wood carving
“Jeepney”
 Carving on glass is unique in the
Philippines and sculptor RAMON
ORLINA who has made it popular, is
now known as the “Father of Philippine
Glass Sculpture”.
 Ramon Orlina,
famous glass sculpture
“Virgin”
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Casting

When a sculpture is formed using terracotta

clay, it is made permanent through plaster
of paris.
Ed Defensor, “The Battle Sculpture”
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Sculptors gather and put together

Assembling different materials, including found
objects to create an assembled
sculpture.

Assembling is an addictive process using

adhesive, welding, and other chemicals for
adhesion.
Josephine Turalba
Styles and Movements in Sculpture

Technology, modern tools and materials generate

new artistic ideas and sculptural effects that have developed
into different styles and movements.
 Monolothic
Constructivism
Sculpture

Styles
and
Sculptural Niches, Boxes,
Movement Assemblage and Grottoes
in
Sculpture
Kinetic
Sculpture
 Styles and Movements in Sculpture

Monolithic Sculpture

Monolithic sculpture is carved from a slab of stone

and is limited by the material’s shape and size.
Lucell Larawan,
“Prostate”
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Constructivism

Constructivism is popular among contemporary artist. It

makes use of new materials such as plastics, plexiglass,
metal wire and allows a break from the figurative
representation of sculpture.
 Vladimir Tatlin,
“Monument To The Third International”
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Sculptural Assemblage

Sculptural assemblage provides a method to the

contemporary artist that abandons carving, modeling, and
casting. Several found objects, including “metal (wire, pipe,
sheet, rod, spring, tube, bar, and plate) are put together
through a single method of attachment”.
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Kinetic Sculpture

Kinetic sculpture is a sculpture in mechanical

motion.
 Impy Pilapil,
“Rainbow Rings”
Gabby Barredo, “Meet The Family”
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Niches, Boxes, and Grottoes

Niche is a recessed
in a wall where a
Boxes are closed and sculptured figure or
can be packages, a bust can be located.
portable container for
something worth Grotto is not
keeping. associated with the
wall and is more
like a room.
Box Art
Niche Art
Water Grotto