Mark Di Suvero "Yoga"
Lynn Chadwick "Conjunction"
Donald Judd "Untitled 1963"
Henry Moore "Bronze Form"
Michelangelo "David"
February 15, 2011
Freestanding/In the round
This type of sculpture can be viewed from any angle and where space occupies every angle.
Emily Floyd "Organarchy"
Tom Otterness "Immigrant Family"
Tom Otterness on Broadway "Gabriel BenAtez"
Louis Bourgois "Maman"
Magdalena Abakanowicz "Warszawa Rzezba"
Edge
The boundary of a surface
Picasso "Woman."
Picasso "Guitar #1"
Emily Floyd "A Strategy to infiltrate the homes of the bourgeoisie"
Chris Gilmour "Cardboard Sculpture"
Picasso "The Picasso Sculpture, Daley Plaza"
Plane
any flat, two dimensional surface
Marconi Waltz "perpendicular planes"
Alexander Calder "Big Sail"
Bruce Gray "Paper Plane"
George Rickey "Two Planes Vertical-Horizontal"
George Ricky "Three Squares Vertical Diagonal"
February 1, 2011
Activated Space
This is space from which an individual interacts with on a daily basis.
Brian O’Doherty "Inside the White Cube"
Brian O’Doherty "Rope Drawing #111 (drawing in the air)"
Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen "Light Brix Modular Hexagons of Light"
Nancy Rubins "Big Edge"
Suzanne Husky "Sleeper Cells"
Volume
This is when three-dimensional space of an object id occupied within a form.
Anish Kapoor "Bean sculpture"
A.N. Fisher "mapping of the world"
Robert Cronbach "World sculpture at United Nations headquarters"
Peter Gabriel "Big Blue Ball"
Otterlo "Sculpture Flottante"
Secondary
Secondary contours are lines which deviate from the outer edge of the subject and provide visual information about the mass inside the outermost edges.
Christo "Wrapped Vespa"
Christo and Jeanne-Claude "The Gates"
Christo and Jeanne-Claude "Wrapped monument to Vittorio Emmanuelle"
Christo "Wrapped Building Lower Manhattan"
Christo "Wrapped Night Table"
Primary
This is the first or highest rank in an order. In contours, they are the lines which define the outermost edge of a subject or piece.
"Frog on a log" Bud Byllivant
Novica "Power of the Mind"
Alexander Calder "the circus"
Alexander Calder "Two Spheres within a Sphere"
"Woody Aleen" by Lisa Fedon
High Relief
In reliefs, a high relief is one where the most porminent elements of the composition are undercut and has a depth of field.
"Menkaure and a Queen" Old Kingdom Egypt
"Lamassu" Assyria
"battle of Lapiths and Centaur" Greece
high reliefs of "Bible scene on facade of Cathedral of Christ the Saviour" Russia
Chidi Okoye "Lolo mask"
Low relief
This is also called a bas-releif in which carved elements on a work are raised or lowered in a shallow depth of field. These are ususally elemnts that are not part of the main idea, only part of the composition.
from the tomb of Ti at Saqqarah
"Vase" from the tomb of Ti at Saqqarah, Summerian Culture
"Stele of Naramsin", Akkadian Culture
"Palette of Narmer", Early Dynastic Period Egypt
"Ti Watching a Hippopotamus Hunt" Old Kingdom Egypt
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