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Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since modernism, shifts in sculptural process led to an almost complete freedom of materials and process. A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or molded, or cast.
Sculpture in stone survives far better than works of art in perishable materials, and often represents the majority of the surviving works (other than pottery) from ancient cultures, though conversely traditions of sculpture in wood may have vanished almost entirely. However, most ancient sculpture was brightly painted, and this has been lost.
Sculpture has been central in religious devotion in many cultures, and until recent centuries large sculptures, too expensive for private individuals to create, were usually an expression of religion or politics. Those cultures whose sculptures have survived in quantities include the cultures of the Ancient Mediterranean, India and China, as well as many in South America and Africa.
Patricia Piccinini (born 1965 in Freetown, Sierra Leone) is an Australian artist who works in a variety of media, including painting, video, sound, installation, digital prints, and sculpture. In 2014 she was awarded the Artist Award by the Melbourne Art Foundation's Awards for the Visual Arts.
According to the Art Gallery of South Australia, Australia:
The Skywhale was a work commissioned by the ACT Government for its Centenary year. The ABC described the work as a "hot air balloon in the shape of a tortoise-like animal featuring huge dangling udders made from four hectares of nylon." The balloon cost $300,000 and has been the subject of comments made by ACT Chief Ministers Jon Stanhope and Andrew Barr.
In 2015 she presented as part of a group exhibition titled Menagerie at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne.
In a 2014 interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, Piccinini said of her work, "It’s about evolution, nature – how nature is such a wonderful thing, we’re just here to witness it, it’s not here for us – genetic engineering, changing the body." Following her 2014 win in the Melbourne Art Foundation's Awards, she went on to say that:
Actors: Janet Mayson (actress), Kai Winikka (actor), Aubry Peters (writer), Aubry Peters (editor), Aubry Peters (director), Aubry Peters (actor), Aubry Peters (producer), Michael Karlin (composer), Michael Karlin (writer), Josh Winegarner (writer), Josh Winegarner (actor), Dustin Hall (actor), Dustin Hall (producer), Josh Winegarner (producer), Dustin Hall (writer),
Plot: Dire Digest is the newest feature film from PMP Productions. It's a horror anthology with six interlocking stories from six different writers. Stories include: Just a Dream (written by Michael Karlin and directed by Aubry Peters) An Occurrence (written and directed by J. Scott Winegarner) It's Nothing (written and directed by William L. Harper) Necessary (written and directed by Aubry Peters) Engraved Danger (written and directed by Davis Lee DeRock Jr.) The Ark (written and directed by Dustin Hall)
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller,Actors: Bill Cobbs (actor), Lance Henriksen (actor), Yuri Lowenthal (actor), Sab Shimono (actor), Romane Simon (actor), Brian Thompson (actor), Tara Platt (actress), Yuri Lowenthal (writer), J. LaRose (actor), Boris Kievsky (actor), Sarah Deakins (actress), William Morse (actor), Sean Hampton (actor), Adam Sessler (actor), Bonnie Morgan (actress),
Genres: Sci-Fi,Actors: Chase Motter (writer), Chase Motter (director), Elana Jacobson (actor), Adam Sheetz (actor),
Plot: We explore the life of a man who is love deprived. He is an artist, a sculptor who wishes for nothing more than to make the perfect woman. Carving her out of stone he gives her all of the qualities he desired most in a companion, but is unsatisfied. He asks for god to give her life, to give him love, but when his wish comes true he is ungrateful. God punishes him, and he must live out the rest of his life without her physical beauty, appreciating her as a person.
Genres: Drama, Romance, Short,Actors: David Ferguson (actor), David Ferguson (actor), David Ferguson (producer), David Ferguson (director), David Ferguson (editor), Jung Ah Chung (actress), Miles Lowry (director), Miles Lowry (writer), Jung Ah Chung (actress), Jung Ah Chung (actress), Niels Knudsen (actor), Dominique Porte (actress), Dominique Porte (actress), Jennifer Wise (actress), Eclipse Quartet (composer),
Plot: Suddenly Dance Theatre's OPIUM observes the artist through fits of creative madness and addiction, in a hallucinatory dance short inspired by the French artist Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963) and his famous struggle with addiction. Written by Miles Lowry; starring Canadian choreographers David Ferguson, Jung-ah Chung, and Dominique Porte.
Keywords: canadian, cocteau, dance-film, french, opium-addiction, surrealistHere I am again on the brink of destruction
Lost all senses of comprehension
What I have seen is cold reality
The stage has frozenb but still approaching
Death takes its toll on me
Mind decay
Disminded energy
Haunted by yesterday
Don't want my soul to bleed
Senses astray
Lost sanity
Time to pay
Hidden in this world that was made for me
Standing alone, I am freezing
The door is locked now, I'm trapped in me
One-way path and a missing key
Chaos in my mind, I am lost in thought
Never an end, why won't it stop?
A sculpture ideal to be perfect in all ways
But what I see is a statue with no face
Death takes its toll on me
Mind decay
Disminded energy
Haunted by yesterday
Don't want my soul to bleed
Senses astray
Lost sanity
Time to pay
Hidden in this world that was made for me
Standing alone, I am freezing
The door is locked now, I'm trapped in me
One-way path and a missing key
Looking down at the past forgotten
Undying memory of what was and that should have been
You're not the fear, it's me
Is there something here that is pulling me back?
Did I lose myself in this attack?
Arranging my mind's complex thoughts
To be released from this predestined loss
Death takes its toll on me
Mind decay
Disminded energy
Haunted by yesterday
Don't want my soul to bleed
Senses astray
Lost sanity
Time to pay
Hidden in this world that was made for me
Standing alone, I am freezing
The door is locked now, I'm trapped in me