Posted by Steve | Posted in Sculpting | Posted on 25-03-2010
Tags: blog, design, ice sculpture tools, photo, photography, photos
A good question to ask about water?
I have a project to do on water for school. I need a good question and three sub topics. (For example, What kinds of animals live in water, and the sub topics being “What kinds live in deep water,” “What kinds like near the shore,” etc) It can be ANYTHING to do with water.
I need help with a question about art and water. The one I have is, “How can water be used as an inspiration, tool, and BLANK for artists. And the subtopics would be as an inspiration, such as paintings of water (waterfalls, lakes, storms), and another subtopic would be tool, so how artists use water (ice sculptures, in painting, etc) BUT I need a third sub topic to fill in the blank, that also has to do with water and art.
PLEASE HELP?
To me when you say “tool” as far as a use of water in art, I think of the use of the water as the tool like in a watercolor painting, not as water being the end product like in an ice sculpture. An ice sculpture is water AS art. So would be the water installation art / water sculptures (sculpture that incorporate water http://www.nayerkazemi.com/ — just think of all the beautiful fountains, that are certainly art, that have been made through the centuries). Take a look at this site where the fountain isn’t fancy and the water is the star:
http://hight3ch.com/vortex-water-sculpture/ Or there are the water fountains where the performer IS the water set to music. Those are all examples of water AS art itself. As are the ice sculptures you brought up.
So I think you should distinguish between water as ART and water as a TOOL that the artist uses to produce the art: in watercolors to make paintings, some modern artist probably wets his canvas or spills water on it to obtain a certain effect, perhaps it’s used in sculpture to polish a work (I don’t know, you’d have to ask a sculptor). I do know that there are such things as water jet cutters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_jet_cutter which sculptors who work in certain materials might use.
That would give you your third subtopic.
Water as inspiration, as a tool and as art itself.
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