Practice question · Multiple choice
Direct carving treats the physical block as an active participant rather than an inert substrate. What follows from this principle for the sculptor's working method?
Hints
- How does direct carving contrast with working from a predetermined clay model?
- What role do natural fissures and resistance play in subtractive working?
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A. Preparatory maquettes are abandoned to let faults guide the form
Why
Direct carving abandons intermediary models so the sculptor responds immediately to the physical stone. Conflating carving with additive modelling or Constructivist assembly mistakes the subtractive process, while material associations remain inherent rather than erased.
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More questions on Materials as Language
- Sort each statement by whether it argues FOR truth to materials or AGAINST it.
- Why is it not hypocrisy that Moore cast extensively in bronze after arguing for truth to materials?
- Gabo and Pevsner's Realistic Manifesto renounced mass as a sculptural element.
- Complete the account of materials as language.
- How many principal sculptural methods does this lesson distinguish, once construction is included?
- Arrange these developments in the relation between sculpture and its materials.
- Truth to materials survives intact as the standard doctrine of contemporary sculpture.
- Arrange these contributions in chronological order.