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.
Mueck's work showed at the Christchurch Art Gallery from the end of 2010 through to January 2011. Research Mueck's sculpture in order to answer the following questions;
1. Mueck's sculpture is described as 'hyper-real'. Define the meaning of this term and apply it to his work.
- Mueck’s describe his work as “hyper real”, it’s the short form of hyper reality, hyper reality is define as an incapability of between the realism and unrealism, in postmodernist theory, it’s a copy of an event, object or media text, that imitates reality makes it more real than real, a preferred form of reality to the original. It also refers to a replica of something’s that’s never actually existed, all of these meaning is a system of simulation of the real thing. This word has applied on Ron Mueck’s work. It have the relation of what is real, what is not real, the simulation of something which doesn’t existed.
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.
- In one of the interview the interviewer asked the question of “how and when did you get the idea of manipulating scale with your figures?” and Ron Mueck answer with” I never made life-size figures because it never seemed to be interesting. We meet life-size people every day”. This shows that Ron Mueck is not interested in normal size he wanted to do something that makes him notices that people wouldn’t do.
In bed: This is one of the sculpture that Ron Mueck have done in 2005 the size of it is 63 3/4 x 255 7/8 x 155 1/2 in. (161.9 x 649.9 x 395 cm).As you can see this sculpture is bigger than a human, it show naturalism, realism and illusionism, it has a very clear detail of the skin and the face, this sculpture have shown use how humans impression when they woke up.
Mother and child: This is also another sculpture been done by Ron Mueck, as you can see it’s a smaller sculpture that he have done, it show the portray humans at key stages in the life cycle of birth.
All of Ron Mueck’s art works are mostly related to what human will do. Most of his works are in human object with no clothes on, I think is because that he wanted to show us the humans detail.
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 focus on the features of a classical civilization, this also including the intellectual and movement of human associated with ancient Greece and Rome. People began to explore the power of the human mind. It has across Europe from the 14th to the 16th centuries and Renaissance humanism, describes 3 humanists. Artists in the Renaissance period followed the emphasis of the humanists on the human being as the center of existence.
- 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. Comment on other student blogs to develop the discussion around the variety of our own personal and individual responses to art and design.
Pregnant woman
I really like the way how Ron Mueck have show the idea of this sculpture, because it represent the birth of the new generation, and I really like the idea. As you can see closely, the detail of this sculpture is truthfulness with neat detail. I also think that the artist is telling us that this is what we’ll as a woman will be looking like in the future.
hi stacy...i read ur opinion about Ron Mueck's work, from my view "hyper" also means"over", his sculpture without exaggerate the size are very realistic.He said he want to produce realistic things which looked perfect from all angles. I like the work "Dead Dad",it didnt show to visitors how death should be, no religious trail, details made people trip over the sculpture even the spirit easily. And i think Humanism is a kind of revolution, change people's attention from religious to material, in addition, it also means any system or mode of thought or action in which human interest, values and dignity predominate.
ReplyDeleteI like your presentation on Ron Mueck, very nice. I like Ron's use of Hyperreality and intricate use irregular sizes. It awakens people to the finer detils in an artwork. I also agree with "Monkeyqry" when she said" i think Humanism is a kind of revolution, change people's attention from religious to material, in addition, it also means any system or mode of thought or action in which human interest, values and dignity predominate."
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