SCULPTURE AND ART: THE MULTIPLE FACES OF REALISM

Abstract

This essay proposes as an object of study to reflect on realism applied to sculptures of human figures in the periods of Greek Antiquity, Italian and Brazilian Baroque and Hyperrealism in the 1990s. The intended objective is to establish a narrative woven to the strategies related to the choices of materials and the plastic capacity of the artists to transform them into skins, hair, hair, eyes, muscles, clothes and human expressions. The motivating question of this work is: how is realism interpreted by artists so that the human appearance is visible in the sculptures?

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56238/sevened2024.041-011