Child
Transcript of Child
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