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    • YEAR 1 & 3 >
      • Artist of the Week - 1st 9-weeks >
        • Monet
        • Artisans of the Ozark Folk Center
        • Renoir
        • Wood
        • Rembrandt
        • O'Keeffe
        • Hokusai
        • da Vinci
        • Durer
        • Bierstadt
        • Adams and National Parks
      • Artist of the Week - 2nd 9-weeks >
        • Raphael
        • Munch
        • Rivera
        • Titian
        • Rockwell
        • El Greco
        • Constable
        • David
        • Christmas art
      • Artist of the Week 3rd 9-weeks >
        • Degas
        • Vermeer
        • Cassatt
        • Turner
        • Homer
        • Whistler
        • Seurat
        • Van Gogh
        • Disney
      • Artist of the Week 4th 9-weeks >
        • Sargent
        • Chagall
        • Kandinsky
        • Picasso
        • Dali
        • Remington
        • Mondrian
        • Pollock
    • YEAR 2 & 4 >
      • 1st Nine Weeks >
        • Chihuly
        • Moses
        • Durer and Line
        • Matisse and Shape
        • Van Eyck and Texture
        • Velazquez - Space
        • Christy - Constitution Day
        • Monet and Color
        • Rembrandt and Value
        • Art Review- 1st 9-weeks
      • 2nd Nine Weeks Art >
        • da Vinci and Drawing
        • Cassatt and Painting
        • Hokusai and printmaking
        • Picasso and Collage
        • Rivera and murals
        • Michelangelo and sculpture
        • Relief Sculpture
        • Rodin and modern sculpture
        • Schulz and cartooning
        • Van Allsburg and illustration
      • 3rd Nine Weeks Art >
        • Warhol and Pattern
        • Escher and positive negative space
        • Van Gogh and rhythm
        • O'Keeffe and scale/proportion
        • Caravaggio and Emphasis
        • Kandinsky and Variety
        • Cezanne and Balance
        • Art in ancient culture
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        • Bruegel and genre
        • Illuminated manuscripts
        • Adams and photography
        • Wright and architecture
        • Seurat and art displaying
        • Toulouse-Lautrec and graphic art
        • Tiffany and decorative arts
        • Drake and crafts
        • New Media Art
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        • Beethoven
        • Tribute to Aretha Franklin
        • Jimmy Driftwood
        • John Phillip Sousa
        • Claude Debussy
        • W. A. Mozart
        • John Williams
        • Idina Menzel
        • Amy Beach
        • Marching Bands
        • Carl Orff
        • William Grant Still
        • Scott Joplin
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        • Stephen Foster
        • Andrew Lloyd Webber
        • Johnny Cash
        • Aaron Copland
        • Musical Elements: Rhythm with Infinitus
        • Thanksgiving Music
        • Tchaikovsky
        • Handel
        • Johnny Marks
      • 3rd Nine Weeks >
        • Stephen Sondheim
        • Pentatonix
        • Sergei Prokofiev
        • Elton John
        • Louis Armstrong
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        • Cher
        • The Gershwin Brothers
        • Henry Mancini
        • The British Invasion
        • Woody Guthrie
        • Dr. Seuss Music
        • Alan Menken
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        • Florence Price
        • Yo-Yo Ma
        • George M. Cohan
        • Rimsky-Korsakov
        • Rodgers & Hammerstein
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        • Albert Ketelbey
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        • Gustav Mahler
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        • Randall Standridge
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        • J. S. Bach
        • Banjamin Britten
        • Leonard Bernstein
        • Ella Fitzgerald
        • One Voice Children's Choir
        • Christmas Around the World
        • Jingle Bells
      • 3rd Nine Weeks >
        • Bedrich Smetana
        • Disney Composers
        • Garth Brooks
        • Edgar Varese
        • Joni Mitchell
        • Frederic Chopin
        • Valentine's Day
        • Koji Kondo
        • Philip Glass
        • Lin-Manuel Miranda
        • Review Week
      • 4th Nine Weeks >
        • Marian Anderson
        • Johann Strauss, Jr. >
          • Johann Strauss, Jr.
        • John Denver
        • Moses Hogan
        • Barry Manilow
        • F. J. Haydn
        • Wynton Marsalis
        • Gloria Estefan
        • George Strait
        • Jake Shimabukuro
        • Yanni
  • CHARACTER WORDS
  • School of Innovation!
    • Laying a Foundation
    • Art Music Plan
    • It's OFFICIAL!
    • Rationale
    • Mission & Vision
    • ADE Approved Plan
    • Graphic Plan
    • Implementation Plan
  • Library
  • G./T.
  • National Blue Ribbon School Info
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Auguste Rodin and Modern Sculpture

MONDAY - Rodin - beginning of modern sculpture

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Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin’s works are considered to be the beginnings of modern sculpture.   
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The Burghers of Calais by Rodin
The Burghers of Calais is a famous work of Rodin’s.  It was sculpted as an historical monument for the city of Calais, France to recognize six citizens who once risked their lives to save the city.  
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The Thinker by Rodin
Probably Rodin’s most well-known sculpture is The Thinker.  This sculpture shows a man who appears lost in thought, yet who has a powerful body capable of great action. Numerous casts have been made of The Thinker, and they can be found in museums throughout the world.  One sculpture of The Thinker is displayed in the gardens of the Rodin Museum in Paris. The Rodin Museum has more than 6,000 of his sculptures.  
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Gravesite of Rodin
Another copy of The Thinker graces the tomb of Rodin and his wife.  It was Rodin’s wish that The Thinker serve as his headstone and epitaph. Rodin's work had a large influence on future sculptors.

TUESDAY - Henry Moore 

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Henry Moore
Henry Moore was an important British sculptor of the 20th century.  Moore liked to create sculptures by direct carving on wood or stone.  
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Many of his sculptures reflect objects from nature, such as pebbles, shells, and bones.  The sculptures often have openings within them.
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Two of Moore’s favorite themes for sculptures were a mother and child and a reclining figure.  ​
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Moore's sculpture for UNESCO
Moore produced many large sculptures.  A marble reclining figure he made for the headquarters of UNESCO in Paris is over 16 feet in length and weighs 39 tons.  ​
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Bird Basket by Moore
Moore’s sculpture of the Bird Basket shows his interest in open and closed forms.  The strings encourage the viewer to notice and be aware of the space surrounding the figure as well as the figure itself.
YouTube video - Henry Moore Sculptures (2:18 min.)

WEDNESDAY - Alexander Calder

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Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder was an American artist known for being the first to include motion in his sculptures.   
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One of his earliest moving artworks was his Calder’s Circus, the pieces of which were made from wire, rubber, cloth, cork, and other found objects. Cranks and motors moved his earliest sculptures.  ​
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Calder is the inventor of the mobile, which is a type of sculpture that is delicately balanced with shapes that move from a touch or from a breeze.   
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A French artist came up with the word “mobile” to describe Calder’s hanging sculptures. ​
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This large Calder mobile hangs in the lobby of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.  The photo belows shows a Calder exhibit in the National Gallery.
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National Gallery of Art Calder display
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Calder also made large, abstract sculptures that did not move, which he called stabiles, since they were stable and still.   
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Calder created monumental sculptures for public properties.  One of these, Mountains and Clouds, is in the US Hart Senate Office Building.  The sculpture spans the entire nine-story atrium of the building.  
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Senate Hart Building sculpture by Calder
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Calder also produced three-dimensional line-drawing sculptures using wire.  He referred to the sculptures as “drawing in space.” ​​
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Calder line drawing sculpture
YouTube video - Alexander Calder [a look at his art] (2:48 min.)
YouTube video - Calder performing his Circus (5:00 min.)
Slides showing the installation of Calder's large mobile in the National Gallery of Art

THURSDAY - Christo and Jeanne-Claude

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Jeanne-Claude and Christo
Christo Javacheff and Jeanne-Claude were a married couple who created very large-scale environmental works of art.  For years credit for the large sculptures was given to Christo, the husband, alone, but in 1994 it was realized that the husband and wife worked on the art as a team. Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s sculptures were called “environmental” because they were so broad in scale that they affected an entire area or environment.​
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The Reichstag Building wrapped
Several of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s large-scale works involved wrapping something.  They wrapped the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany.   ​
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Pont Neuf in Paris, France wrapped
They also wrapped a bridge in Paris, France.  
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude strung a gigantic orange curtain across a Colorado valley. 
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In 1983, Christo and Jeane-Claude completed their art project of surrounding eleven of the islands of Biscayne Bay near Miami Beach with pink floating fabric.  
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Japan umbrellas
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California umbrellas
For their environmental art, The Umbrellas, the pair set up 1,340 blue umbrellas in Japan at the same time that 1,780 umbrellas were set up in southern California.  These umbrellas became a huge tourist attraction, but the exhibit had to be closed when a woman was killed by an umbrella toppling from high winds.  
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Central Park
Christo and Jeanne-Claude set up 7,503 “gates” in Central Park of New York made of golden yellow fabric  The gates project cost $21 million dollars which the couple raised by selling art.  ​​
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Trees wrapped in Switzerland
The artworks of Christo and Jeanne-Claude sometimes stirred up controversy.  People protested that the large sculptures interfered with daily life or with the landscape.  
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Running fence in California
The artists said the works were only intended to make viewers see familiar landscapes in new ways and to temporarily create impressions of joy and beauty. ​​
YouTube Video - Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Overview of their work [great views of their environmental art from a helicopter] (5:24 min.)
YouTube video - Modern Sculpture in Washington D.C. [shows a variety of modern sculptures] (5:41 min.)

FRIDAY - Varieties of sculptures

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Rodin’s work is viewed as the beginnings of modern sculpture.  The art of sculpture is always changing as artists use their creativity and try new things.  Sculpture can take many forms.
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Living sculpture is created with things that are growing such as plants and trees.  Topiary sculptures prune a shrub into a form.  
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Crop art is made by creating patterns in a large field.  
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Ice sculpture can be beautiful and is appreciated for the fact that the artist’s finished work is temporary.  
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Some contemporary sculptures use light or technology.
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Sculpture can be intended to surprise or to be humorous.  
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Much sculpture is displayed in public places and is meant to be enjoyed by all.  ​
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These creative sculptures have a surrealistic look, similar to the art of one of last year’s artists of the week, Salvador Dali.  ​
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This sculpture by Duane Hanson shocks us because of how realistic it is.
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Sculptures can be as large as Mount Rushmore.  
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They can also be as tiny as those by Willard Wigan, one of last year’s Faces of Creativity.  His sculpture of Rodin’s The Thinker fits on the head of a pin. Like all art, there are few rules for creating sculpture.
YouTube video - Amazing Giant Sculptures Around the World (2:11 min.)

Go to these sites to see some amazing large sculptures:

Bored Panda,. '25 Of The Most Creative Sculptures And Statues From Around The World'. N. p., 2015. Web. 24 Nov. 2015.

My Modern Met,. '22 Of The Coolest Sculptures You'll Ever See'. N. p., 2009. Web. 24 Nov. 2015.

Moving (kinetic) sculpture art activites:

Website with a simple mobile art activity
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Website with mobile activities

Sources:

The Art Story,. 'Alexander Calder Biography, Art, And Analysis Of Works'. N. p., 2015. Web. 24 Nov. 2015.

The Art Story,. 'Henry Moore Biography, Art, And Analysis Of Works'. N. p., 2015. Web. 24 Nov. 2015.

Auguste Rodin Sculptures, Bio, Ideas. (2019). The Art Story. Retrieved 2 December 2019, from https://www.theartstory.org/artist/rodin-auguste/
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Infoplease.com,. 'Christo Biography (Artist)'. N. p., 2015. Web. 2 Dec. 2015.

Makingartfun.com,. 'Hey Kids, Meet Auguste Rodin | Biography'. N. p., 2015. Web. 23 Nov. 2015.

Musee-rodin.fr,. 'The Thinker | Rodin Museum'. N. p., 2015. Web. 24 Nov. 2015.

Wikipedia,. 'Auguste Rodin'. N. p., 2015. Web. 23 Nov. 2015.

Wikipedia,. 'Christo And Jeanne-Claude'. N. p., 2015. Web. 24 Nov. 2015.


Wikipedia,. 'Living Sculpture'. N. p., 2015. Web. 3 Dec. 2015.


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