Week 3- Ron Mueck's sculpture and Humanism

1. Mueck's sculpture is described as 'hyper-real'. Define the meaning of this term and apply it to his work.

Surrealism  is literature and art and it beganing from French and Dada. It is  far-reaching influence of the visual arts. In 1920~1930, the surrealism prevails  in european literature and the arts community. Its main features is The most realistic show the true face of objective facts. Surrealism has a huge impact for the trandition view. Overthrow Mueck's work, he is good with the technique of expression for hyper-real.  He use the most nomorlly elements of our life, and he use inflated technique of expression for his work. Mueck's work has a stronly actual feeling to us, this way make people more easy to intensive experience with artsit thking.

2. Mueck is not interested in making life size sculpture. Find out why he is more interested

in working with the scale of the figure which is not life size, and mention 2 works which use 

scale that is either larger or smaller than life

 

 

Mueck  interested in making not life size sculpture. All of his sculpture's elements are around people's life and he likes to use  technique of surrealism to creat his art work. He use not life size into his art work it can hlep his sculpture to outstanding mian meaning. For these two sculpture ,"Baby" and "gravida ", they are bigger than life size, form another view these are outstanding the value of life.

 

3. Define Renaissance Humanism , and analyze the term in order to apply it to an example of Mueck's work. Note that the contemporary definition of Humanism is much broader than the Renaissance definition.

 

 

 Renaissance Humanism is a kind of thought to against feudal society. It rose in 14th century of Italy, 15,16 century to be widely disseminated in some other countries in Western Europe. The main idea of Renaissance Humanism is humane treatment , to promote individual liberation. For Mueck's work of  "gravida",. This sculpture sufficient express the artist Humanism.  In 14th century, the humanism just meaning that people want to get humane treatment, but for Mueck's humanism , he had distillation of the meaning. The most important ideal is artist wants to through his work to show something about life, thinking, respect, disappoint, ect. Mueck make Humanism to be more  detailed, and more close our life. On this acount viewer more easy to struck a responsive chord with artist.

 

 

4. Research and discuss one of Mueck's sculptures that you might find challenging or exciting to experience in an art gallery. Describe the work, upload an image of the work, and explain your personal response to the work.

 

   This work of " Boy" made by Mueck.  This boy is vulnerable, unsure and defensive. When people see his eyes, it feeling this boy is wary gaze misses nothing. As you walk around this art work , you will become shock of the detail -- the delicately carved rolls of glesh, the hair on each limb , the gargantuan toes and intensity of the eyes with their thick eyelashes. This work was made over nine months in London for the millennium.
This  sculpture sufficient express Mueck's 'hyper-real'. Mueck also ues the elements around our life. And he most keep an eye on the details of people. For this work, Mueck wants to talk about watch attentively the world. Through his work, most thinking is about real life about our life and indivadual behaviour. On another hand, his work not use the life size. When the huge art work showing behind of your eyes, it is quite powerful to show people how hyper-real of his work.