ACTIONS ARE STRONGER THAN WORDS WORDS, WHEN IN THE ACT OF FORMING, ARE ACTIONS WORDS ARE STRONGER THAN WORDS ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN ACTIONS
Everyman as obsolete
would work, wood work attitude, added to adieu, I do discount, disk out
One step forward, one step back! (Linedancing)
Louise Bourgeouis (currently in her mid 90s)--making literal figure-as-architecture
As far as I can tell, all visual art, except perhaps sculpture, has (historically) roots in architecture. Mosaics were on walls. Many paintings of the Byzantium were made for specific locations (such as niches). Renaissance painting (from which contemporary painting is basically based--whether it's accepting or rejecting that notion is irrelevant) was founded on the idea of a painting essentially functioning like a window. Relief sculptures were found on doors and walls, sometimes carved into the actual architecture (also take note of gargyols). Installation, as seen with Kurt Schwitter's Merz Bau (1921) which is arguably the first installation ever, directly correlates to architecture and the notion of art-as-architecture. Architecture, however, is ultimately about the body and scale to the body. Sculpture however is a bit different and much like architecture in that it is primarily about the body and scale (??). I'm going to throw that out there... Anyway, sculpture is (sort of) limited to the architecture it is in, but sculptures/statues exist outside of rooms and are in public spaces without any physical attachment to buildings--ways that paintings, relief sculptures and most installations are not seen as or treated as such. Scale in relationship to the body becomes of primarily concern.
To be brief, perhaps sculpture is a parallel to architecture, as opposed to architecture being its predecessor. They both are about body, whereas the other subgenres are about architecture, which is about the body
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ACTIONS ARE STRONGER THAN WORDS
WORDS, WHEN IN THE ACT OF FORMING, ARE ACTIONS
WORDS ARE STRONGER THAN WORDS
ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN ACTIONS
Everyman as obsolete
would work, wood work
attitude, added to
adieu, I do
discount, disk out
One step forward, one step back! (Linedancing)
Louise Bourgeouis (currently in her mid 90s)--making literal figure-as-architecture
As far as I can tell, all visual art, except perhaps sculpture, has (historically) roots in architecture. Mosaics were on walls. Many paintings of the Byzantium were made for specific locations (such as niches). Renaissance painting (from which contemporary painting is basically based--whether it's accepting or rejecting that notion is irrelevant) was founded on the idea of a painting essentially functioning like a window. Relief sculptures were found on doors and walls, sometimes carved into the actual architecture (also take note of gargyols). Installation, as seen with Kurt Schwitter's Merz Bau (1921) which is arguably the first installation ever, directly correlates to architecture and the notion of art-as-architecture. Architecture, however, is ultimately about the body and scale to the body.
Sculpture however is a bit different and much like architecture in that it is primarily about the body and scale (??). I'm going to throw that out there... Anyway, sculpture is (sort of) limited to the architecture it is in, but sculptures/statues exist outside of rooms and are in public spaces without any physical attachment to buildings--ways that paintings, relief sculptures and most installations are not seen as or treated as such. Scale in relationship to the body becomes of primarily concern.
To be brief, perhaps sculpture is a parallel to architecture, as opposed to architecture being its predecessor. They both are about body, whereas the other subgenres are about architecture, which is about the body
Sculpture-body
Architecture-body
Painting, Installation, Relief Sculpture->architecture->body
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