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David Schafer
David Schafer (born 1955) is an American visual and sound artist based in Los Angeles, whose practice integrates aural, textual, graphic and sculptural elements to create installation art, installations, public art and individual works that critics describe as immersive, spatial experiments.Tumlir, Jan"Multiple Choice: On 'Separated United Forms,'"in ''Separated United Forms'', David Schafer (author), Milan/New York: Charta Art Books, 2011. Retrieved June 3, 2019.Ollman, Leah''Los Angeles Times'', February 13, 2015. Retrieved May 17, 2019.Wholey, M.A"David Schafer Finds Male Hysteria Simmering Beneath the Surface of Art History,"''Artsy'', February 9, 2015. Retrieved June 3, 2019. His approach combines self-consciously formalism (art), formalist aesthetics, a Pop Art sensibility, and Postmodernism, postmodern Deconstructionist intent, often appropriating and reframing cultural motifs in order to investigate systems of historical and cultural memory, built space, and language.Tanguy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sculpture
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramic art, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been an almost complete freedom of materials and process. A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or Molding (process), moulded or Casting, cast. Sculpture in stone survives far better than works of art in perishable materials, and often represents the majority of the surviving works (other than pottery) from ancient cultures, though conversely traditions of sculpture in wood may have vanished almost entirely. However, most ancient sculpture was brightly painted, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
