Sculpture Critical Analysis The sculpture I picked is a full-round sculpture, and you can see something different from each side. I think the method of execution is construction because it doesn’t look like he modeled this with clay by manipulation. I also highly doubt he used all subtraction for this because that would be inefficient, although he might have done some small amounts for some of the finer detail. That leaves substitution, which is unlikely because that would be a gigantic mold to make and also inefficient. In my opinion, this is a very open piece. I see some contraposto in a couple of the people because of the way they look like they’re in movement carrying this woman. What initially catches my eye about this piece is the woman being carried holding the torch. Then I look down and see all the people carrying her with all those defined features pointing up, and I get carried right back up to the woman on top. I would say my eye travels in almost an oval shape fashion.

As far as size is concerned it’s a very tall sculpture, standing around 20 feet tall I would estimate. It also looks like a very heavy sculpture but it doesn’t cover a lot of ground. It’s fairly skinny but tall. I would say this sculpture has a very defined texture. There are discreet details in the that you can see when you focus. For example, the wrinkles in the clothing and the facial details. There’s a lot of negative space in this sculpture mainly because the individual people aren’t connected. There’s also plenty of open space between the people holding the woman up and the woman herself. There’s a lot of circular shape the ring under the woman and the base of the sculpture. The people holding her up are arranged in a circular pattern as well.