Video overview

Gabrianna Boldinski

1. In the video named Through the Eyes of the Sculptor I learned  that sculptors move away from their homeland to really understand what their culture is all about. Also they must use their emotions to carve these sculptures. They will take out the original carving and use it to carve a duplicate. In some of the marble sculptures there will be different people that work on one carving, for example someone will do the face or hair or body shape. They work together to put together one full sculpture. There's a stone yard where these artists will get their stone from that starts as a canvas and turns into a masterpiece. The artist will be very picky when it comes to the perfect stone and will go to great measures. Sometimes the artist will search for weeks just to get one piece of stone.

2. In this video they showed lots of examples of the methods of carving. Carving being the subtractive process in which one starts with a mass of material larger than the planed sculpture and subtracts, or takes away, material until only the desired for remains. They showed how a sculptor would start of with a large limestone rock and cut it down into a head or body of some sort.

3. This film was very interesting to see how artists would start off with a simple black of stone and be able to sculpt it into a detailed face or body figure. It was interesting to find out that in lots of sculptures, multiple people will work on it in order to have a finished product. It was easier to watch the video and understand the steps in sculpting and all that is involved in the process than the reading.

1.In the second video called Glass and Ceramics it taught me what glass was made of. I never really knew too much about glass and how its made so learning the its made from sand is kind of mind blowing. I learned when making blowing glass its shaped through wet newspaper which i find kind of incredible. Glass is put into fire not only to melt but to also harden when the right shape is made. When making stained glass for a room the artist will look at the lighting in the room which I found interesting because I never thought of the artist thinking of  something like that. Ceramics is made by fire just like glass and made with a clay base. A crystal structure is what gives the ceramics hardness and resistance.

2. The video and the reading relate in one aspect of telling the audience how glass is made, which is from silica or sand. When the video talked about stained glass and what its techniques are used for they both talked about being used for windows and used examples of the stained glass in a church and how putting different cuts of glass with different colors on each are shaped into one piece. When talking about clay and ceramics they both talked about the high temperature clay is put in in order to shape the product and turn it into whatever is desired.

3. I enjoyed this film more than the sculpting film just because i find glass and ceramics to be more interesting in the process of making a piece of art. I never really thought too much into how the stained glass in my church was made, but now learning about it, it gives me a bigger appreciation for it. Also when it comes to ceramics its very interesting how the plates and bowls we use on a daily basis is made with clay and put into an oven and designed by man made hands.