Complete Introduction to Figure Sculpture

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Complete Introduction to Figure Sculpture

At some point in your life, you've probably pushed something out of modeling clay or taken an art class where you were supposed to sculpt something out of clay.

However, chances are that if you wanted to take a serious interest in sculpting, you've probably found it difficult to find good material on the subject.

This video is designed to help beginners looking to get serious about sculpting while covering the basics that more experienced sculptors will enjoy.

Regardless of your skill level, this video will give you the knowledge and tools to sculpt the human figure.

The sculpture is an art form in which hard or plastic materials are transformed into three-dimensional art objects.

The drawings can be embodied in independent objects, in reliefs on surfaces or in environments ranging from paintings to contexts that surround the viewer.

A huge variety of mediums can be used, including clay, wax, stone, metal, fabric, glass, wood, plaster, rubber, and random "found" objects.

Materials can be carved, shaped, molded, cast, forged, welded, sewn, assembled, or otherwise shaped and combined.

The sculpture is not a fixed term applied to a permanently circumscribed category of objects or sets of activities.

Rather, it is the name of an art that grows and changes and continually expands the range of its activities and develops new types of objects.

The scope of the term was much wider in the second half of the 20th century than it had been only two or three decades earlier, and in the fluid state of the visual arts in the 21st century, no one can predict what will be its future.

Certain features which in earlier centuries were considered essential to the art of sculpture are not present in much of modern sculpture and can no longer be part of its definition.

One of the most important is representation. Before the 20th century, the sculpture was considered a figurative art, imitating forms of life, most often human figures but also inanimate objects, such as games, utensils and books.

However, since the beginning of the 20th century, the sculpture also includes non-figurative forms.

It has long been accepted that the shapes of functional three-dimensional objects such as furniture, flowerpots, and buildings can be expressive and beautiful without being representational.

It was not until the 20th century that non-functional, non-figurative, three-dimensional works of art began to be produced.

Before the 20th century, the sculpture was above all considered an art of solid or massive form.

It is true that the sculpture's negative elements - the voids and voids within and between its solid forms - have always been, to some extent, an integral part of its design, but their role was secondary.

However, in much of modern sculpture, the emphasis has changed and spatial aspects have become dominant. The spatial sculpture is now a generally accepted branch of the art of sculpture.

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