Sculpture Artists
3RD QUARTER STUDY GUIDE
(10) Multiple Choice Questions (circled bullets
in Artist Fun Facts/Bio)
(15) Multiple Choice Questions (Slides with
Artists’ last names)
Michelangelo
Buonarroti
#3: Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian)
Time period: The Renaissance (1400- 1600 AD)
Style: (Representational)
Fun Facts:
Considered himself foremost a sculptor; however, the Pope
convinced him to paint the Sistine Chapel.
Sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer.
In his lifetime he was also often called Il Divino ("the divine one")
Michelangelo Buonarroti
David
1501-1504
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
#4: Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian)
Time period: Baroque (1600- 1700 AD)
 Style: Representational
Dramatic use of light, strong colors, theatrical, and
movement.
Fun Facts:
 He was the leading sculptor of his age, credited with
creating the Baroque style of sculpture.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
David, 1623-1624
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
The Ecstasy of St. Tersea, 1647-1652
Auguste Rodin
#5: Auguste Rodin (French)
Style: Modern sculpture (worked during the same time
as the impressionists.
Time Period: Late 1800’s
Fun facts:
 Rodin's most original work departed from traditional
themes of mythology and allegory
 modeled the human body with realism, and
celebrated individual character and physicality.
Auguste Rodin
The Thinker, 1879–1889
Auguste Rodin
Gates of Hell, 1880-1917
Marcel
Duchamp
#7: Marcel Duchamp (French)
• Born: 1887 Died: 1968
• Time Period: Late 1800’s - Early 1900’s
• Styles: Conceptual art, Surrealism, and Dada
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Dada- an art movement which emerged during WWI that was anti-art,
poked fun at established traditions and was deliberately shocking.
• Fun Fact:
Marcel Duchamp was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player,
and writer whose work is associated with Dadaism and conceptual art,
although not directly associated with Dada groups.
The ready-mades of Marcel Duchamp are ordinary manufactured objects
that Duchamp bought in 1914 as "already made" sculptures.
Marcel
Duchamp
Bicycle Wheel, 1913
Marcel Duchamp
Bottle Rack,1914
Marcel Duchamp
Fountain, 1917
Meret
Oppenheim
#8: Meret Oppenheim (German)
• Born: 1913 Died: 1985
• Field: Painting, Sculpture, Poetry
• Movements: Surrealism
Fun Facts:
• Her originality and audacity established her as a
leading figure in the Surrealist movement.
• Contributed to Surrealist exhibitions until 1960. Many
of her pieces consisted of everyday objects arranged
as such that they allude to female sexuality and
feminine exploitation by the opposite sex.
Meret Oppenheim
Object (Fur Cup with Saucer and Spoon), 1936
Man Ray
#9: Emmanuel Radnitzky “Man Ray”,
(American)
• Born: 1890 Died: 1976
• Field: Painting, Photography,
and Sculpture
• Movements: Surrealism and
Dada
Fun Facts:
• He was best known in the art world for his avantgarde photography
• a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. Ray
is also noted for his work with photograms, which
he called "rayographs" in reference to himself.
Man Ray
The Gift, 1921
Constantin Brancusi
#10: Brancusi (Romanian)
• Born: 1876 Died: 1957
(aged 81)
• Field: Sculpture
• Movement: Modernism
Fun Facts:
• was invited to enter the workshop of Auguste Rodin. Even
though he admired the eminent Rodin he left the Rodin
studio after only two months, saying, "Nothing can grow
under big trees.“
• he held a large spectrum of interests, from science to
music. He was a good violinist and he would sing old
Romanian folk songs.
Constantin Brancusi
The Kiss, 1912
Alberto
Giacometti
# 11: Alberto Giacometti (Swiss)
• Born: 1901 Died: 1966 (aged 64)
• Field: Sculpture, Painting, Drawing
• Movement: Surrealism,
Expressionism, Cubism, Formalism
Fun Facts:
• His father was the painter, Giovanni
Giacometti.
• Giacometti went to the Geneva School of
Fine Arts.
Alberto Giacometti
Walking Man, 1960
Barbara Hepworth
#12: Barbara Hepworth
• Born January 10, 1903. Died
in May 20, 1975
• Style: Sculpting, Modernism
Fun Facts:
• By the time she attained 16 years of age, she was
modelling life portraits using clay, which led her to win
a scholarship to Leeds School of Art.
• Besides her studies, Hepworth found time for marriage
to John Rattenbury Skeaping, also a sculptor from
Britain.
Barbara Hepworth
Infant, 1929
Jacques Lipchitz
#13: Jacques Lipchitz (French American)
• Born in August 22, 1891. Died in 16 May
1973 (aged 81)
• Style: Sculpting, Cubism
Fun Facts:
• His father, a Jewish building contractor, came from a rich
banking family. As a boy, Lipchitz was encouraged to draw.
• After he graduated from high school, his father expected
him to go to engineering school, but Lipchitz opposed him
and went to Paris in 1909 to study sculpture.
Jacques Lipchitz
Figure, 1926-30
David Smith
#14: David Smith
• Born: March 9, 1906. Died: May
23, 1965
• Style: Modernism, Modern art,
Abstract expressionism
Fun Facts:
• Worked as a riveter and welder at automotive
factories before devoting himself to art.
• Interested in the painterly potential of sculpture,
he built his works by welding together found
objects, machine parts, and forged metal.
David Smith
Cubi, 1960s
Alexander Calder
#15: Alexander Calder
• Born: July 22, 1898,Died:
November 11, 1976
• Style: Surrealism, Section d'Or,
Modern art
Fun Facts:
• His Gran-Dad Alexander Milne Calder was also a
sculptor. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, he
emigrated to America aged 18.
• Calder is best known for his creation of kinetic
sculptures (mobiles)
Alexander Calder
Red Triumphant, 1963
Jasper Johns
#16: Jasper Johns
• Born: 1930 (still alive)
• Style: Neo-dada
• Fun facts:
• Johns and Rauschenberg were the first artists to utilize
“junk” as a fine arts material.
• Johns makes his sculptures in wax first, working the
surfaces in a complex pattern of textures, often layering
collaged elements such as impressions of newsprint, or of a
key, He then casts the waxes in bronze, and, finally, works
over the surface again, applying the patina.
Jasper Johns
Target with Plaster Casts, 1950s
Robert Rauschenberg
#17:Robert Rauschenberg
Born: October 22, 1925
Died: May 12, 2008 (age 93)
Style: Neo-Dada
Fun facts:
• American artist Robert Rauschenberg is best known for
paving the way for pop art of the 1960's with fellow artist
Jasper Johns.
• He worked as a costume and stage designer in New
York City before moving to painting, sculpture, music and
collage to produce his work.
Robert Rauschenberg
Monogram, 1955- 1959
Edward Kienholz
#18: Edward Kienholz
Born: October 23, 1927
Died: June 10, 1994
Style: Funk art/Neodada
Fun Facts:
• By 1950 Kienholz broke free from the two-dimensional
surface altogether and began to create threedimensional "constructions" through the assembly and
combination of everyday objects.
Edward Kienholz
The State Hospital, 1966