Sponsor
Portland State University. Department of Art.
First Advisor
Michihiro Kosuge
Date of Publication
6-11-1996
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) in Sculpture
Department
Art
Language
English
Subjects
Craig Luster, Formalism (Art), Sculpture
DOI
10.15760/etd.7132
Physical Description
1 online resource (2, 31 p.)
Abstract
A sculpture can offer visual information that is simple or complex. The work can present only a single facet to ponder or deal with all facets equally polished and linked. There can be enough information to arrange in an order that reads as narrative. All is possible but, without question, the more complex the sculpture, the more information given, the greater the challenge to the artist to make a coherent and interesting whole of everything being presented. The body of work presented in my thesis show represents the outcome of exploring a chain of questions about sculpture. The first question was simply how to present a sculpture of a seed pod. This question led to inquiring what the base could do for the sculpture. Next came a study of the artwork of Constantin Brancusi. I realized that he had used formal qualities of sculpture to link his bases and sculptures, so I wondered about the ability of formal qualities to solve my base/sculpture problems. All of the work was completed with the intent of expanding my personal sculptural lexicon. I also intended to develop a store of knowledge that allowed free use of multiple artistic concepts. The hope was that what was being communicated through a sculpture would be sufficiently complex that a viewer would be intrigued into considering all the possible implications of the visual information.
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Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/30683
Recommended Citation
Luster, Craig, "Seed Pods, Bases and Formalism: An Artist's Journey" (1996). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 5259.
https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.7132
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