Posted by Steve | Posted in Casting | Posted on 28-03-2010
Tags: Casting, investment, jewellery, jewelry, lost wax casting investment, wax
Art Questions about Sculpture?
1. What is meant by the terms additive and subtractive processes?
2. What is the process of lost-wax casting? How far back in history is it dated?
3. How is investment casting different from lost-wax casting?
4. What is significant of the Burghers of Calais?
5. What is idealism? In what kinds of sculpture is this in reference to? Which time periods in art history significantly used idealism?
6. What is contraposto?
7. What are some reasons for the figure being used as a sculptural format?
8. What is an installation?
9. What are earthworks?
Here are some links to help:
1. For additive go to this link. For subtractive look under Carving at same link ie. http://www.ackland.org/tours/classes/glossary.html
2. http://users.lmi.net/drewid/Lost_Wax_Casting.html
3. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Wealth+of+molding+methods+meet+every+casting+need-a07749517
4, http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/publications/pdfs/burghers/divided/storyBurghers.pdf
5. Definition: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-idealism.html
Classical Greek Sculpture / http://library.thinkquest.org/23492/data/art.htm
German sculpture 19th/early 20th.
http://www.users.bigpond.com/wernerschmidlin/sculpture.html6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrapposto
7. Leave this one to you!!. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installation_art
9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installation_art
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