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BIG IDEA: Tin foil and paper mache gesture sculptures inspired by Alberto Giacometti
ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
- How can a non moving sculpture still represent the art element of movement?
- How do our emotions influence our creativity?
- Recognizing our personal suffering, daily struggles and failure to explore ways to embrace our trauma and help heal ourselves - becoming stronger each day.
- How to build an armature and creating paper mache glue.
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Tate Gallery - Giacometti works and brief bio Below: materials you will need and also visual guidance. |
Alberto Giacometti was an artist and descendent of religious refugees and used his personal suffering and emotion to create dynamic sculptures that bare the scars of our daily struggles. "There's torment in every one of us, Giacometti wasn't afraid of displaying it." - Stanley Tucci
"He made something positive of this idea of failing, of difficulties, of starting again every day, Starting anew every day." - Katherine Grenier "We sculptors affectionately refer to Giacometti’s signature style as snot on a string. For me and others, the texture is an indication as to how tactile sculpture was for him. You can feel him pinching and pushing the original material. Rodin’s are like that too, but clearly each of their respective sense of touch and their tactile experiences were different, each unique to their different personalities and sensibilities similar to signatures." - Craig Frederick, CT Sculptor and CCSU professor Giacometti was one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century. His work was particularly influenced by artistic styles such as Cubism and Surrealism along with his personal trauma and memories of World War II. Philosophical questions about the human condition played a significant role in his work. Around 1935 he gave up on his Surrealistic influences in order to pursue a more deepened analysis of figurative compositions. His self-critical nature led to great doubts about his work and his ability to do justice to his own artistic ideas but acted as a great motivating force. |
SUPPLIES: Tinfoil, mixing bowl, flour, water, fork or whisk, paper towels, newspaper or paper bags. Glue can be substituted for flour.
Progress of a sculpture above: Tin with base, stages of paper mache with paper towels and homemade glue with flower, painted with acrylics
Directions:
Directions:
- Step 1: Make glue with flour and water in a mixing bowl - I like to add a tbs. of lemon juice or white distilled vinegar to help preserve it. Set to the side until you are ready to use.
- Step 2. Begin by making your body parts (see above picture) and than put them together by adding pieces of tinfoil together to act like "tape"
- Step 3: Rip or cut up either paper towels, brown grocery bags, newspaper, etc to use for gluing
- Step 4: Dip paper into paper mache glue and neatly add strips onto your sculpture. Make sure paper is fully saturated with glue. You can also build with the paper as well.
- Step 5. If sculpture has dripping glue on it when completed - just wipe down. Let sculpture dry.
- Step 6: Optional/Decorate and paint - Embellishments: fabric, beads, tissue paper
Challenge yourself and take it further to create something else more complicated, like an animal or magical creature, adding a paper mache coating to your sculpture. Mix paper mache glue using this recipe and cover your sculpture with scraps of paper towels or paper bags.