Sir Anthony Caro Early One Morning,
1962, Tate.
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1965
© The artist, Barford Sculptures Ltd. |
Junky Funky Sculpture
February 2005, Tate Britain
Make your own sculpture based on those of the great British Sculptor,
Anthony Caro. Caro made a new sort of sculpture that didn’t
look like anything else. He worked using just raw materials, colours
and shapes. Often these sculptures try to solve particular puzzles,
such as how shapes might spill over an edge, fall out of a window
or balance on a beam. To make these works, he took different pieces
of steel and looked at them positioned one against the other.
When the pieces looked ‘right’ he welded them together.
This work, called Early One Morning, looks as though it is doing
a sort of dance across the floor.
Taking inspiration from the different shapes and colours found
in Caro’s works, we made our own sculptures using cardboard
rolls, pipe-cleaners, straws and lollipop sticks. We stuck the
sculptures together using sticky-back plastic or by cutting holes
with a scissors and slotting pieces together. After we finished
making our sculptures, we thought about a good name for them,
just as Caro did.
Top tips!
- Look at Anthony Caro's sculptures for inspiration http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/caro. What shapes can you see?
- What can you find around the house for scrap? Old bottles, paper plates, paper cups, cardboard boxes? What shapes match?
- How does Caro make a circle stand up? How can you make your circle stand up?
- How does Caro use a table to hang things from and off? How can you use the edge of a table for your sculpture?
- Can you make your sculpture balance?
- How high will it climb before it topples down?
- Try fixing your own materials together in different ways, using different methods.
- Give your sculpture its own name.
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