Casting

Man on Fire by Luis Jimenez is created through casting. Luis Jimenez likes to create his artwork through casting because he wants to create an “American art” using materials that come from his time. Man on Fire is made of fiberglass and was created to demonstrate himself because his audiences considered his work to be on fire. The concepts behind his work are the current symbols of America. He wanted to create pieces that were important to American society and the country as a whole. Man on Fire is a little different because it talks about himself as an artist, but his other pieces of art were created to demonstrate his idea of what was important to America.   

Carving

Michelangelo's Pieta demonstrates the medium called carving. He starts with a slab of stone, and carves a sculpture into it. This way, he is breaking away all of the excess stone that is not needed in order to create the sculpture. The bottom of Pieta shows the size of the original slab of stone. The reason that Michelangelo carves statues is to see what secret the rock holds. He believed that each stone decided what would come out of it.  

Low Relief Sculpture

King Sahure and a Nome God was created by the Egyptians between 2458 and 2446 B.C. It is an example of a low relief sculpture. In ancient Egypt, people would have sculptures made of themselves with Gods and Goddesses or other people of importance to them. They did this in order to show themselves as an independent spirit or a ka in the afterlife. Having the sculpture buried with them was a sign of their immortality. King Sahure is placed next to a Nome God because that was the God that he prayed to the most. He felt connected to the God and wanted him placed next to his ka. 

Manipulated Photography

Jerry N. Uelsmann's Rumples Market demonstrates the medium of manipulated photography. In order to complete manipulated photography, Uelsmann takes pictures of multiple different objects and whites out the background behind these objects. He then combines the objects into one final picture to show what he is trying to portray. In Rumples Market he has used random objects such as the arrows on the street, and the pictures of Coke bottles to create a face on the brick wall and street. The whole reason he takes pictures is because he likes to explore. Where ever he is, if he likes what he sees, then he takes the picture. The concepts take place in the darkroom. He believes that is where the art blossoms because it's all based off of what he can create. In Rumples Market each portion of the face was taken in a different area. He then combined them all in the darkroom to create a final portrait. 

Portrait Photography

Annie Leibovitz creates art through portrait photography. Her portrait of Bob Dylan, Los Angles, shows Bob Dylan making a face at the camera. The white backdrop offsets his skin and hair color. She tries to photograph the spirit of her subject. Looking at this picture, it looks as if Bob Dylan is trying to be funny. By photographing him making a funny face, she has captured that emotion. Her concept is the ability to photograph the personality of the public figure that isn't always seen by the press. In other words, she tries to capture their private life and personality.  

Instant Collage

Walker Evans portrays Instant College through his piece called A Miner's Home Vicinity Morgantown, West Virginia. He created a new way to take photographs called a calotype. In other words, Walker Evans printed pictures from the negative. His medium of choice was instant collage. He believed that the idea of capturing a picture was an instant collage. Walker Evans enjoyed capturing pictures of “real America”. This was the concept and context of his instant collages. This is shown through his artwork A Miner's Home Vicinity Morgantown, West Virginia. It captures the true image of a miner's home.  

Woodcut

The medium of Tropical Sun by Emil Nolde is ink. Tropical Sun is an example of a woodcut, which means, the artist carves out some of the wood so that only the raised pieces will have ink on them. The ink is thick and sticky so that it will not flow into the cutout areas of the wood. Tropical Sun shows this idea because each color has it's own place on the picture. They don't intersect or blend like a painting would. Emil Nolde's career was a huge mark on the German Expressionism time period. His considered his work experimental but brought to life many moral dilemmas of the first generation German Modernists. The context of his work focused around the concepts of moral dilemmas.