Additive Sculpture

Simply put, additive sculpture is the process of creating sculpture by adding material or building up material to create the work

Types of Additive Sculpture

• Modeling

• Assemblage

• Paper Mache

• Welding/Soldering

• Etc.

Some Images of Additive Sculpture

Leo Sewell

Imperial Penguin, 1981, found objects.

Gretchen Lothrop

SHAKTI      C. 1998stainless steel125" x 59" x 40"

Tom Bartel

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen

• Claes – Swedish sculptor

• Coosje - Dutch/American pop sculptor

• They were married in 1977

Brief Bio

• Most memorable from the collasal sculpture they have made of mundane objects

• Considered Pop Art• Pop art was when artists challenged

tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art.

Deborah Butterfield

A little background

• An american Sculptor

• Focuses on a single subject – the horse

• Has loved horses since early childhood

• Sees her sculptures as an attempt to communicate and identify with the powerful creatures who have played such a vital role in human civilization – simply put,

When looking at her sculptures, think about the following:

• Do they look like real horses?

• What materials were used to create them?

• Are they young, frisky colts, wild stallions, or tired old work horses?

Images of her work