Sculpture, in its role of creation of forms, is one of the preoccupations of architecture, town planning as well as industrial aesthetic. All the objects we use in our everyday life, for work or relaxation, the urban environment in the City, stem from the study and perception of form; our entire environment is made up of volumes and empty spaces, or voids contained within volumes.
The art of sculpture is based on savoir-faire, a technique that is necessary to master. Once artistically interesting forms have been modeled, they have to be translated into stone while taking into account the constraints of the stone itself; the knowledge of stone and stone-cutting techniques are essential.
The seminar introduces students to the approaches specific to sculptors; from the creation to the realization of a work, various techniques will be covered, from working with clay to carving stone.
The seminar offers students the chance to express themselves in a field that is often unfamiliar to them. Creation is the materialization of an idea, its representation in volume in space, the understanding of its structure and the perception we can have of it. The seminar aims to reveal the world of forms to the student's eyes and enable them to reproduce it.
Through simple exercises, students acquire a language that allows them to express a new sensitivity to the world around them. Through the progression of their work, students will be brought to rapidly construct a volume in space. The subjects covered will be worked in bas-relief or ronde bosse, (that is to say by extrapolating: from a two-dimensional drawing to a three-dimensional one), and will include studies based on the living model as compositions calling on the imagination.
Bibliography
Sculpture. Méthode et Vocabulaire. Imprimerie Nationale.
Pierre Francastel. Arts et techniques. Gallimard. 1988.
Alain. Les entretiens chez le sculpteur. Gallimard.
Philippe Clérin. La sculpture, toutes les techniques. Dessain et Tolra. 1988.
Histoire d’un art. La sculpture. Skira. 1987.
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- Teaching coordinator: Espanol-Ruiz José-Maria