MAKING A SPANISH POLYCHROME SCULPTURE

                  

At first,  i want to tell you the reason why i chose this video. This video gives information about the process of making a Spanish polychrome sculpture.This process is expressed in the video clearly. In addition to this, title of  what he does is given in written form. The man talking about in the video mentions the elements used for making sculpture. He says that harder materials are put inside part of the sculpture so that it can be stronger. Later, materials made of polychrome are joined together to compose the body of the sculpture. Next, some parts including hands, arms, shape out a hand. The hand shaped out in the video looks really nice. It is just like its real one. Making it must be very difficult. It is open that it is made by a proffessional person. A lot of materials are used for making the hand of sculpture. After shaping the hand, he informs us about the preparation of skin of the sculpture. He means ‘clothes’ by saying ‘skin’. He says that he uses not only three dimensional but also two dimensional decoration. They both go together , hand in hand. They cannot be distinguished. He usses different materials to carry out this purpose. These materials include glue, dye, brash, sand paper, egg, etc. The decoration of the sculpture in the video is really good. Everything is well-designed. It must be really difficult to achieve making a sculpture considering the steps mentioned in the video. It is really good if my journal is helpful in terms of  informing you about these steps :D

SCULPTURE ART

  

     Sculpture is a type of artwork. It is tree-dimensional, and created by shaping  or combining hard materials. These materials can be stone, marble, metal, glass or wood. Softer materials such as plastics, clay, textiles, polymers can be used, too. This artwork can sometimes include sound, text, light, etc. 

     Materials can be worked by removal (carving) , can be assembled by welding, can be hardened by firing, etc. Sculptor may apply paint to decorate the surface.

     Types of Sculpture 

     

     -Free-standing sculpture

     -Sound sculpture

     -Light sculpture

     -Jewelery or Jewelry sculpture

     -Relief (attached to a background)

     -Site- specific art

     -Statue

     -Stacked art

     -Architectural sculpture

     -Environmental sculpture

     

 

      Sculpture in Cultures

    

     Actually, i would like mention that it is really difficult to talk about sculpture in every culture. I will just talk about the most important cultures in terms of sculpture considering this fact. These are Egyptian and Greek cultures. 

     

     Egyptian Culture 

     This art has been carried out in Egypt for thirty centuries. In this culture, strong materials such as granite, basalt have been used. Inside and outside of the temples have been decorated by using sculptures.

     Style of the sculptors in Egypt has changed in the course of the time. We can understand this change from the positions and materials of the sculptures. Figures are generally dormant. On standing figures, body weight is equal in both legs. Arms are adherent to the body. Hands are in fist shape.

     Egyptian sculptors have to make plain sculptures, because the materials they use are really hard. That's why, there is no details such as muscles or face expressions. We can find details only on the ones used for adorning the graves. The cause of it is these sculptures' housing the spirits of the dead people. 

     

     Greek Culture

     In this culture, there is a standard type. Personal features are not important. Even the body size of the sculptures is standard.

     At first, they used stone, bone, ivory, clay, bronze,etc. Over the course of time, they improved this art. They started to make monumental sculptures. There are many reasons for this development. One is a tradition which requires making sculptures for the athletes succeeding in Olympics. Another reason is improving architecture.

     On the sculptures of this culture, we can see the arms, legs and head being in different directions. We can understand that Greek sculptures have worked on human.