Ron Mueck's sculpture and Humanism
Mask II (2002) Ron Mueck
A girl (2006) Ron Mueck
Ron Mueck has become internationally recognised for his unique sculptures, which replicate the human figure with unrivalled technical skill. His work has a powerful psychological range, focusing not only on universal experiences like birth, life and death but on emotional states such as isolation, fear and tenderness. His startling manipulations of scale are key to our experience of each work.
1. Mueck's sculpture is described as 'hyper-real'. Define the meaning of this term and explain how it is evident in his work.
Exaggerated in comparison to reality, extremely realistic in detail. In form which comparison to reality is made more realistic to than it really is but with a difference that is impossible to be true.
2. Mueck says he 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.
He expresses the need of wanting to make adjustments beyond the physical image and to maximize the appearance and emotional expression of his sculptures. He finds it more interesting to dramatise the feeling of how an image should be seen and also wanting to allow people to look into the sculptures and realize that there is more to be seen within the skin.
Ron Mueck has never made a life size figure because it never seemed interesting to him. Quote" We meet life sized people every day". Ron mueck makes us realise that imagination can be played with and brought into the lif like things of our normality and how things can be configured.
Ron Muecks shows in the 2 sculptures that size can be changed and emotions can be expressed further with size to be bigger and seen or to be smaller and more detailed.
In the "Big Man" In the "2 old woman"
3. Define Renaissance Humanism , and identify which aspects of Humanism can be seen in Mueck's work.
Renaissance Humanism is an outlook of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than supernatural spiritual matters, the pass through from the medival culture forming to humanist. Expression of forming art from within ones self.
The aspects from where Humanism can be seen in Ron Mueck's sculptures are seen from the way he uses different techniques and skill of process and development into the sculpture. The facial and body details are a way of showing expression and naturalism that has been focused on and dramatised to the human eye. Ron Mueck's freedom of art shows that humanism is shown all over his work from size, detail and subject, to have chosen the media and subject to what his interest is in and to express it.
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.
I find that Ron Muecks "Crouching Boy" is one of the most interesting sculpture of his works i have come across. He uses alot of depth in this and also gives the illusion as the boy cannot fit in the room and i like how he uses the space around him to seem as if he is enormously oversized in height. The facial expression that the boy gives seems like he is afraid or is hiding and also how his body is close to his feet and crouching like he is afraid and in hiding.
The level of skill that Ron Mueck has is inspiring to me and to others, the way he uses the materials and space to make the sculpture become life like but hyper real is a amazing.
The level of skill that Ron Mueck has is inspiring to me and to others, the way he uses the materials and space to make the sculpture become life like but hyper real is a amazing.
Body detail is one of the most fascinating arts i see of this work. Use of dimension and shadows.
"Crouching Boy"
Reference websites and books used at the end of your blog.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/816457/ron_mueck_australian_hyperrealist_sculptor/
christchurchartgallery.org.nz/exhibitions/ron-mueck/
Hi there Hina
ReplyDeleteI found Ron Mueck's work to be very interesting just like you found it to be, in the same aspects as well. The fact that he plays with scale in all his works and they look so real. I would definitely would like to experience his work in person, it just looks amazing.
I would have to agree with you on the fact that his works do also play with the idea of humanism using the emotion of each sculpture through the facial and body gestures.
I am not sure if its just me but the image of the "2 old woman" isnt showing up on my screen?
But overall a very good blog