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Art:
A Global Pursuit,
Davis Publications 2001 Paper is all around us. We use it to write on and to wrap things. We feel its many textures and thicknesses in books and magazines. It fills our homes, schools, and offices. For thousands of years, paper has been an important part of daily life. It has also made its mark in the world of art. From its earliest time, paper has provided artists with a surface for drawing, painting, and printing pictures. In the early 1900's, paper's role in art expanded into collage and sculpture. Artists invented new ways to express themselves with paper. Many were inspired by the traditional paper-folding and paper-cutting techniques they saw in Europe and Asia. Today, artists create exciting sculptural forms just by cutting, folding, scratching, tearing, piercing, bending, punching, rumpling, gluing and decorating paper. Fig.
7-25 Notice how this artist simplified the forms of exotic flowers.
What paper sculpture techniques do you see here? Why might the artist
have also chosen to simplify the color scheme? Ron Chespak, Birds of
Paradise, 1997. 70 x 44 x 8," courtesy of the artist. |