Sculpture I / Modelling From a Referent
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Complete the account of working in the round.

A sculpture must resolve from every ______, which is why studios mount work on a banding ______. Proportion is handled by choosing a ______ and stating everything else as a multiple of it. Looking at the shapes of the gaps rather than the object is working from ______ space.

Word bank: view · wheel · unit · negative · angle · positive

Hints
  1. The first blank is what a drawing settles and a sculpture cannot.
  2. The last blank names the technique that defeats prior expectation.
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A sculpture must resolve from every view, which is why studios mount work on a banding wheel. Proportion is handled by choosing a unit and stating everything else as a multiple of it. Looking at the shapes of the gaps rather than the object is working from negative space.

Why

The four terms are the practical kit of the lesson. Note that the banding wheel is not a convenience: if the work does not turn, it will be judged from one position and will be unresolved everywhere else.

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