ARTHIST 2A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Michelangelo, Cai Guo-Qiang, Olafur Eliasson
15 Mar 2017
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Not architecture bc it has no functions as one. Whole bunch of techniques that can be used within carving. Modeling and carving are similar in that sense. Modeling the clay statue - parallel transfer. Carving has a different effect of modeling. Putting different things together by any means and it creates one piece. New idea ongoing in western art - modern invention. Welded his products together to create a sculpture. Identification of the object and yet the very objects in the object itself and its differences to what it is supposed to represent. Artist has not just decided to put it together, but also how to use the space and how to. Only functioning in the space it is displayed in. Or not an objbect at all - sound, mist, light, A moment where sculpture takes everything in. Some installations are not the same without the audience. The actual part of looking is part of the space itself.
