Up, Down, In, Around: Sculpture and Installation (Online)

Three-dimensional sculpture confronts us fully realized with height, width, and depth. There is sculpture in the round, bas-relief, and high relief that can be modeled, carved, assembled, or cast from materials hard to soft. Installation art hit the field when artists began to conceive of a space and everything in it as a single work of art. From Michaelangelo and Rodin to Sarah Sze and El Anatsui, we will dive into ideas of the weighty and eternal as well as the light and humorous. Our conversational class includes short videos to better consider a diversity of ‘isms and artists.