The sculptured eye: an examination of the eye in sculpture and its contribution to the face
Porter, Michael Raymond
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1.Sculptures and Eyes. Sculptors have treated eyes in different ways. Simplicity reduces or avoids the eyes. Closed or downcast eyes can express sleep, death or serenity. Eyes can be absent, yet retain a gaze. The blank eye ball is calmly true to surface reality. Inlaid eyes mimic natural liveliness. Cutting the lris and pupil can colour them with the play of light and shade.2. Face of Identity. As an individual, I have a name and a face. I recognize the other by looking at the face and into the eyes.Faces remain open within a family, for the face, as well as a name, is shared. Among neighbours most faces and many names are known; eyes meet easily and greet. But in an overwhelming crowd of strangers, it can be protective to be invisible, not meeting eyes and dissolving faces into grayness. But looking at the stranger's face can glimpse abiding thought, emotion and a story behind the eyes. In art, the face is often only a dramatist's mask. But in portraiture, there is a virtual meeting face to face. 3.Studio Practice. Not Exactly 12, is a minor series of ceramic heads, nominally about Apostles. It tries to present a variety of friendly human characters. They were ordinary people, known to history for witnessing to one extraordinary person, who they saw with their own eyes.Faced with Open Eyes is a major series of aerated concrete heads, linked by the common threads of characters with large open eyes and a lack of verticality
Main title:
The sculptured eye: an examination of the eye in sculpture and its contribution to the face / Michael Raymond Porter
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Imprint:
Singapore : Lasalle College of the Arts, 2008
Dewey class:
731.82
Language:
English
BRN:
38535
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| McNally Campus | Thesis - MA Fine Arts | 731.82 POR | In house reference (Set: 23 Nov 2011) |
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