Welded sculpture (related to visual art The visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, printmaking, modern visual arts , design and crafts. These definitions should not be taken too strictly as many artistic disciplines (performing arts, conceptual art, textile arts) involve aspects of and works of art A work of art, artwork, work or art object is a creation, such as an art object, design, architectural piece, musical work, literary composition, performance, film, conceptual art piece, or even computer program that is made and or valued primarily for an "artistic" rather than practical function. This article is concerned with the) is an artform in which sculpture Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard, plastic material, wire, sound, text, light, commonly stone , metal, glass, or wood. Some sculptures are created directly by finding or carving; others are assembled, built together and fired, welded, molded, or cast. Sculptures are often painted is made using welding Welding is a fabrication or sculptural process that joins materials, usually metals or thermoplastics, by causing coalescence. This is often done by melting the workpieces and adding a filler material to form a pool of molten material that cools to become a strong joint, with pressure sometimes used in conjunction with heat, or by itself, to techniques. Welding was increasingly used in sculpture from the 1930s as new industrial processes such as arc welding Arc welding uses a welding power supply to create an electric arc between an electrode and the base material to melt the metals at the welding point. They can use either direct or alternating (AC) current, and consumable or non-consumable electrodes. The welding region is sometimes protected by some type of inert or semi-inert gas, known as a were adapted to aesthetic purposes[1]. Welding techniques, including digital cutting Numerical control refers to the automation of machine tools that are operated by abstractly programmed commands encoded on a storage medium, as opposed to manually controlled via handwheels or levers, or mechanically automated via cams alone. The first NC machines were built in the 1940s and '50s, based on existing tools that were modified with, can be used to cut and join metal. Welded sculpture is sometimes site-specific Outdoor site-specific artworks often include landscaping combined with permanently sited sculptural elements . Outdoor site-specific artworks also include dance performances created especially for the site. Site-specific dance is also created to exist in a certain place. The choreography is generated through research and interpretation of the siteâ.
Artist Richard Hunt said "The idea of exploiting welding methods and the tensile strength of metals opened up many possibilities to me. This idea was actually linked to the increasing recognition among artists that an art which was representative of our own time ought to use materials and techniques that were at hand, whether it was new experiments using plastics, new kinds of paints, new kinds of surfaces in painting, or using materials developed during the war effort.[2]"
Artists who have worked in welded sculpture include:
- Alexander Calder Born in Lawnton, Pennsylvania, on July 22, 1898, Calder came from a family of artists. His father, Alexander Stirling Calder, was a well-known sculptor who created many public installations, a majority of them in Philadelphia. Calder’s grandfather, sculptor Alexander Milne Calder, was born in Scotland and immigrated to Philadelphia in 1868. He
- Sir Anthony Caro
- Charles Ginnever
- Julio Gonzalez
- Nancy Graves
- John Raymond Henry
- Robert H. Hudson
- Richard Hunt
- Lyman Kipp
- Clement Meadmore[3]
- Beverly Pepper
- Pablo Picasso Pablo Diego JosĂ© Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno MarĂa de los Remedios Cipriano de la SantĂsima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. He is one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art. He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work
- Peter Reginato
- Revs
- James Rosati
- Richard Serra Richard Serra is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal. Serra was involved in the Process Art Movement
- David Smith David Roland Smith was an American Abstract Expressionist sculptor best known for creating large steel abstract geometric sculptures
- Mark di Suvero
- Aleš Veselý
External links
Notes and references
- ^ Welded Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, Judy K.Van Wagner Collischan, Lund Humphries, 2000
- ^ Richard Hunt: Freeing the Human Soul
- ^ Eric Gibson, The Sculpture of Clement Meadmore, Hudson Hills Press, 1994 ISBN 1-55595-098-1
Further reading
- Creating Welded Sculpture By Nathan Cabot Hale, Courier Dover Publications, 1994
- Welded Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, Judy K.Van Wagner Collischan, Lund Humphries, 2000
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