THE EXPRESSIVE HUMAN FIGURE: ARTH 200 Paper

ARTH 200 – Section Charline Fournier Petit Week 2 – September 6, 2019

How do we look at sculpture? Here are some questions you should address when looking at a sculpture. Use the appropriate vocabulary to describe sculpture. Where is the sculpture situated in relation to where I am standing? Above, under, eye-level, pedestal, plinth, base, far, close What kind of sculpture am I looking at? In the round, low-relief, high-relief, group, free-standing What is the size of the sculpture? Life-size, larger than life-size, smaller than life-size What is the material? How is the texture? Stone (marble, limestone, granite…), metal (bronze, steel…), wood, terracotta, clay, wax, plastic, mixture of different media. Smooth, polished, rough, reflective. Is the sculpture abstract or figurative? Subject Figure How is the subject represented? Pose Bust, full length, half-length Nude, clothed, drapery, armor, clothing of the time Portrait, realism, idealization What is the function of the sculpture? Architectural, decorative, memorial, funerary, religious, secular, protective, celebratory (of a war victory for instance), personality centered, people oriented What was the original context? Findspot