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Public Sculpture

21 November 2018

Objectives

Objectives

In this session, all learners will:

  • Use a range of resources and reports concerning examples of public sculpture to assess the intention and reception of this work

  • Extract information from reports, artists' statements and using own visual analysis to suggest the message of selected public sculptures

What is public sculpture?

What is public sculpture...?

Can you name any examples?

Art that exists in the pubic realm (not in a gallery)

Sometimes, but not always, purchased with public money

Often commissioned specifically for the site in which it is situated

Examples: Monuments, memorials, statues, but also could be performances, dance, theatre, poetry, graffiti, posters and installations.

The Angel of the North by Antony Gormley

Gateshead, 1998

Example 1

Information

The Angel of the North

20 mentres high, 54 metres wide

Based on a cast of the artist's own body

Cost £800,000 to build.

Funded by the Arts Council, National Lottery, EU Funding and private sponsorship

Tilted Arc by Richard Serra

Manhattan, 1981 - 1989

Example 2

120-foot long, 12-foot high solid, unfinished plate of rust-covered steel

Running Fence by Christo & Jeane-Claude

California, 1976

Example 3

More info

Running Fence, 1976

Running Fence was 18 feet (5.5 meters) high and 24.5 miles (39.4 kilometers) long.

The art project consisted of 42 months of collaborative efforts, 18 public hearings, three sessions at the Superior Courts of California, the drafting of a 450-page Environmental Impact Report and the temporary use of the hills, the sky and the ocean at California's Bodega Bay

Good Fences Make Good Neighbors by Ai WeiWei

New York, 2017

Example 4

Your Task

Select one or more examples of public art to investigate using multimedia resources, articles, interviews, artists’ statements as well as your own visual analysis.

More...

Lots of resources on Moodle

Don't forget to reference

Assess the intentions of the artists for making this work. How does this compare with the reception of the work by the general public?

Give your own interpretation of the piece - what message do you think the work communicates?

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