MOVABLE SCULPTURES
TAŞINIR HEYKELLER

Author : Nurbiye UZ
Number of pages : 55-72

Abstract

Aesthetic need is an important characteristic which differentiates humans from other living things. Need to perform art still survives although its meaning has rather changed from initial ages to our day. Jewellery has been an element used to meet various need of humans for ages and it has also gained the quality of being artwork by taking different forms in the hands of artists. The art of sculpture has kept pace with the ways of living of people and with the age along with science. It bears novelties that it brings about in its own age. While the initial meanings of sculpture which were used as jewellery were magical, symbolical, power and status manifestation, they are transformed, in the hands of sculptors, into small sculptures which have assumed form on humans. Many artists have shaped it as forms where they reflected their own arts understanding and personal lines although sometimes they used it as a means of livelihood. In this study, after history of jewellery and structural change is examined in a general view, our main subject, the “Movable Sculptures” is explained, namely, small sculptures in the form of jewellery which can be carried by people on themselves, by giving examples from works of Gonzalez, Picasso, Braque, Arp, Calder, César, Martinazzi, Caro, Arman, Pomodoro and Berrocal who are important sculptors who lived in recent periods of our age.

Keywords

Sculpture, jewellery, art

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