Week #6

1. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.

Through the eyes of the Sculptors.

            Many steps are taken to make these amazing pieces.

Emmanuel Fillion started at a young age, he was surrounded by rocks while living in France. He says before he was a carver. The carving shop is always 12 degrees cal. 7m and 4 m. He knows the smells of each stone.

Moving away from the Euro monuments he felt he needed to become more creative, now living in Malibu California.

He first draws the sculpture, if he can’t visualize it then he cant make it. He first does it in clay then plaster then marble. He uses models to create his masterpieces.

This video taught me the process in which an artist takes to create these amazing sculptures.

Glass and Ceramics.

Glass is everywhere. The process of glass: it is made from sand. It is a viscous liquid that stiffins when cooled.

Glassmakers use 65-70% sand made is silica, it makes crystals, they add mixtures to the sand. They heat this mixture and everything reacts perfectly to make glass.

Stained glass. These artists use light. And previous colored glass then recolor’s them with paint.

Ceramics: They come from fire as well as glass. They are a clay based art, originally coming from rocks.

Architecture: Glass is a preferred material is architecture. Glass has many functions, such as windows with solar power. Glass has mirror like quality’s that take in rays form the sun to produce solar power, and at night is reflects these rays.

Installation Art:

This form of art really proves that anyone who is creative can create. Installations are fashionable, engaging, and very controversial, some just don’t understand. Installations consist of architecture, sculpture, painting video music and performances. Installation art is anything that takes up a 3D space in a new and innovative way.

Invisible art and pop art are both forms on installation art. Video Imagery is taking over,  installations are around us daily, in fact I’m sitting in my own installation right now, my bedroom

           

2. How do the videos relate to the readings in the text?

           

The videos relate to the readings because they further the explanation of glass making, ceramics, sculpting and installations. The videos show another view on each concept, showing them in action, and the creative processes in which they require.

3. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the topics: Sculpture, Installation, and Craft?

I enjoyed watching these films, as I do weekly. Learning the process of a sculptor was my favorite, the detail used and the steps taken. Essentially the artist does 4 pieces of art: drawing it, making it with clay, plaster, and then marble or other stone.  I also enjoyed learning about the different types of installations, and their explanation that any 3D space can be an installation. 

The art of craft is simply incredible, the effort and skill needed to create glass and ceramics is amazing, so much work is done because they blow and form the glass, or make pottery.

These videos help my understanding of each topic because seeing these creative works being done it just truly breathtaking.