Three-dimensional sculpture

Principles of Good Composition in Three-Dimensional Sculpture / 215... 

PRINCIPLES OF GOOD COMPOSITION IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCULPTURE... 

Regardless of the subject matter, a successful three-dimensional sculpture should have the following characteristics ... 

A catalyst is a special chemical substance that, when viewed as a microsculpture, has many of the characteristics of a successful three-dimensional sculpture, mainly variety, unity, and interest. A catalyst is a chemical substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction but is not itself changed into a product. The catalyst is not consumed in the chemical change. If the catalyst is viewed as a microsculpture, it is the negative space of this microsculpture that is involved in the catalyst mechanism for changing the rate of a chemical reaction. This can be illustrated with either heterogeneous or homogeneous catalysts. 

Explain how your plaster form illustrates the principles of a good three-dimensional sculpture variety, unity, interest, and truth in material. 

Is a kinetic sculpture more complex than a motionless three-dimensional sculpture Explain your answer. 

Students will use nylon thread to create a three-dimensional sculpture incorporating line as an element of design. 

Threads can be woven, braided, twisted, and wrapped around an infinite number of shapes to create a three-dimensional sculpture. 

Intramolecular bonds (with molecular shape) determine molecular polarity. Molecular polarity, in turn, establishes whether or not one molecule will attract another molecule. If a IA or VIIA intramolecular bond is ionic, the molecule is polar. If a IA or VIIA intramolecular bond is covalent, the molecule is nonpolar. Polar molecules bond to each other (intermolecular bonds) to form an endless variety of geometric shapes that resemble beautiful three-dimensional sculptures. (See Figure 7.1.)... 

Activity 5.10 Line as an Element of Three-Dimensional Sculpture. . . . 232... 

When we look at a painting or read a book, the surface we are looking at is flat. If we look out the window or view a sculpture or a piece of pottery, we are looking at something in three dimensions (or 3-D). Three-dimensional artwork might be solid and massive, or it might be linear, or it might be a combination of both massive and linear parts. 

Many works of art, two-dimensional as well as three-dimensional, depict subject matter resembling (or resemble, in the case of sculpture) structures of crystalline solids, such as the following ... 

Mainly linear. If the periodic table is transformed into a spiral sculpture, it would be mainly solid. If a mobile periodic table is created, a linear, three-dimensional work of art would result. Famous artworks that resemble a mobile periodic table are the Alexander Calder mobiles. A good example is Untitled at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Two red metal pieces represent the s elements, and six black metal pieces represent the p elements. 

The three-dimensional periodic table can be a solid spiral sculpture or a functional mobile. The families or rows provide ideal components for an attractive mobile. 

Students will construct models of hydrocarbon molecules (three-dimensional microsculptures) and describe the negative space that surrounds these sculptures in terms of size, shape, and relationship to positive space. 

An important consideration for a three-dimensional macrosculpture is selecting the material from which the sculpture will be made. For example, the Statue of Liberty would not be effective as a wire sculpture. The function of the Statue of Liberty is to welcome travelers to the New York harbor as a gateway to the United States. In wire, the statue would be missed entirely by travelers. The materials used in a sculpture can determine its success or failure as a work of art. In Activity 5.4, students will be instructed about the use of plaster, sometimes called plaster of Paris, as a medium for three-dimensional macrosculpture. The preparation of plaster of Paris and the chemical changes that occur during preparation are discussed. 

Explain how your nylon thread sculpture incorporates the elements of good three-dimensional composition (variety, unity, interest, truth in materials). 

Explain how the three-dimensional periodic table constructed in Activity 4.4 is a kinetic sculpture. 

Macrosculptures, three-dimensional works of art, are found just about anywhere people congregate. They make our world a pleasant and interesting place. Not all sculptures are made by artists Plants and geologic formations provide us with natural three-dimensional macroscopic sculptures. Atoms and molecules are viewed at the microscopic level. We have been referring to these sculptures as microsculptures because... 

Fracton A collective quantized vibration on a substrate with a fractal structure Free-dimensional space art The author I. Michaloudis is playing with the three-dimensional space which in the case of the indefinitive transparency of his aer( ) sculptures becomes a non-Euclidean space. Silica aerogel itself can be considered as a personification of what the French mathematician Henri Poincarre named a representative space, a space you cannot measure you just live in with all your senses for more information see loannis MICHALOU(di)S, Aer( jsculpture the enigmatic beauty of aerogel s nonentity in a pilot art and science project, Journal of Non-CrystaUine Sohds (2004) 350 61-66... 

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