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How many materials and verbs can you name? Here are a few that students shared:
Materials
clay, wood, glass, ideas, wax, iron, stone, string, cement, fabric, plastic, bark, wire, pencils, food, cars, gold, paint, silver, buttons, canvas, popsicle sticks, glitter, toys, rocks, glue, tar, ice, chisels, hands, boxes, people, fabric scraps, brains, blowtorch, space, electronics
Verbs
sculpt, roll, paint, shape, think, carve, draw, sew, focus, sketch, look, paint, mold, build, create, plan, glue, color, spray, shade, make, design, put together, melt, focus, cut, mold, brainstorm, carve, write, experiment, gather, combine, weld, talk, look, improvise, feel
We kept these lists in mind during our tour, as well as our vocabulary:
Visit 2/Visit 3 Vocabulary:
gesture/el gesto
balance/el equilibrio
archive/el archivo
remnant/el resto
textile/el textil
We sketched and walked all the way around our first sculpture to see it from all sides.
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It almost looks as though The Cup is frozen: it is frozen in the air, and the urethane is frozen where it dripped. Sterling Ruby feels that sculptures like this show a frozen gesture. A gesture is a movement of the hand, or arm, or face, or body that expresses an idea or emotion. The gesture here could be a big imaginary hand holding the cup, or the urethane dripping from the artist's hand.
You might say that this cup froze in the middle of scooping or pouring. Which do you think it is doing, and why?
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