Child

Background

Anthony Quinn was born in

Chihuahua, Mexico in 1915.

His father Frank Quinn

was from Irish and his Mother

Manuela Oaxaca from Mexico.

When Anthony was three

years old his family moved to

East Los Angeles.

Anthony’s interest in Art developed early, at the age of nine he began sculpting and within three years he entered a California Statewide competition, he won it with his plaster bust Abraham Lincoln.

At the age of 11 his father

was killed by a passing

automobile.

after that Anthony started

Skipping school and working

at odd jobs in order to support his family.

He works different jobs such as migrant farm worker, a newsboy, a preacher and a taxi driver.

Anthony entered another competition during his

junior year in high school and again he won. The

prize was to study and work with famous

architect who was Frank Lloyd Wright.

Wright taught him several important things in

architecture.

He worked as an actor for about sixty years.

Anthony finished his last motion picture, which was Avenging Angelo, with Sylvester Stallone in Toronto in May 2001, in June of the same year he died of respiratory failure at the age of 86.

He was survived by his sister Stella, his wife Katherine and twelve children.

Elements Of Art

Elements of Art

• Many Elements of art can be found in the sculpture CHILD. But the 3 main Elements of art that can be seen in the sculpture are:

• Line

• Texture

• Shape

Line

• In the sculpture their is a lot of implied lines that border the entire sculpture. They help to define the background and to also define the sculpture as a whole.

• Implied lines are the reason we can see the many geometrical shapes that can be seen in the sculpture.

Texture

• The sculpture clearly has some texture on its surface which adds physical and visual properties to the sculpture.

Shape

• The sculpture is a 3 dimensional shape(real 3-d shape) that include a lot of geometrical shapes like triangles, rectangles, squares and circles.

• The sculpture also has mass and volume that help define the sculpture.

Composition of Art

Balance

In this work (Child) we can see :

Asymmetrical Balance 1st Head: left side not equal to theright side 2nd Eyes : Left eye bigger than the right3rd body: right shoulder bigger/higher than the left one

Rhythm

Dynamic rhythm

Irregular rhythm

Unity

This piece is not(whole)

one unite

Not complete

Head shape

Body shape

Theater

Colosseum, 80 AD – Titas era

Faun with Stars. Picasso 1955