Abstract Art

Abstract Art

Adriana Covarrubias
Sculpture I
Keith Lord
April 13, 2011
Abstract Sculpture
When the abstract sculpture assignment was brought to the class, I became more and more interested. I was interested because it was a project that I was looking forward to ever since the beginning of the semester.   The pictures that my professor was showing the class were something different that I wouldn’t really be seeing unless I was in an art museum.   I knew that when I came into this class I was going to do a sculpture, but the idea of it being abstract was more challenging.   As my professor flipped slides around going through pictures, we came across odd shapes that caught my attention.   Those pictures influenced what my new sculpture was going to be.
I started researching what abstract art was and what it did.   Abstract sculpture is an art that isn’t recognizable but instead it is made up of forms and colors that exist for their own expressive sake.   Meaning that we put the meaning on the object, we don’t let the shape dictact what the object was going to be. While the other students were getting feedback of their ideas, drawings, and pictures that they had in their sketch pad, I was scared because I didn’t know if I was on track because I didn’t really have an idea of what I wanted to make.   I figured that I was just going to make strange shapes and then at the end I was going to put them all together.   When class was over I went back to the library and started looking through sculptures on Google.   I printed some nice and interesting pictures that I thought I was going to be able to develop into my own ideas. I was very mistaken.
When I started working with the oasis I started to get really scared because when I started chopping off pieces the oasis wasn’t cooperating with me. A lot of dust started to go all over the place and I just couldn’t carve it the way I had it planned, so I gave up that idea.   Then I started to go off of what started to look like an open bowl...