Metal Magic Tour, Part Three

We began our next stop by sketching this sculpture:

What does this sculpture look like to you? Does it remind you of anything? Students considered these questions, and altered their drawings to enhance and demonstrate what the sculpture looked like to them. Some examples include a volcano, a melting elephant, and different kinds of food.

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The artist Lynda Benglis began her career as a painter, but she wasn't interested in creating paintings on canvas that hung on the wall. So she began to experiment with pouring latex paint directly on the floor.

Lynda Benglis pouring paint

 She allowed the corner to shape the painting below, titled Corner. 

Corner Piece by Lynda Benglis

Benglis also created sculptures with polyurethane foam. First she mixed pigment with resin, then added another ingredient that causes it to foam. Much like the artwork above, she pours the polyurethane directly into the corner, where the foam swells and hardens. 

Untitled by Lynda Benglis

Quartered Meteor, currently on view at the Nasher, was cast in bronze from a foam sculpture like the one above.

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