grade 7 arts pottery and sculpture (cordillera and ilocos region)

Sculpture

Sculpture - is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials, typically stone such as marble, metal, glass, or wood, or plastic materials such as clay, textiles, polymers and softer metals.

Carving -is one of the techniques used in sculpture.

Carving

Carving-is the act of using tools to shape something from a material by scraping away portions of that material

Kinds of carving Bone carving Chip carving Gourd carving or Gourd art Ice carving or Ice sculpture Ivory carving Stone carving Petroglyph Vegetable carving Wood carving Hobo nickel

Stone Carving

Stone- carving is an ancient activity where pieces of rough natural stone are shaped by the controlled removal of stone.

Wood Carving

Wood carving is a form of working wood by means of a cutting tool (knife or chisel) resulting in a wooden figure or figurine, or in the sculptural ornamentation of a wooden object.

CARVING TOOLS

Carving Knives

IFUGAO SCULPTURE

Bulul or Bulol

The Bul-ul or Bulol is an Ifugao anthropomorphic carving that symbolizes an Ifugao rice god or guardian spirits.

Bulul is a simplified shape of a human being, whether male or female.

It also signifies fertility and is sometimes believed to house spirits of ancestors.

. Bulols are kept in the house or granary, and are usually made in pairs.

Bululs" placed in rice granaries are

considered guardians of

the harvest

Chimeras

Wood carving of half human and half animal (a man-dog; a man-frog; a man-butterfly; a woman with goat horns and crab legs; a crocodile partly human; duck and snake) 

POTTERY

POTTERY is the art of making

objects from hard clay by exposing

them to heat or fire.

Pottery are objects that are first shaped of wet clay, then hardened by baking. Pottery includes both decorative and practical items such as bowls, vases, dishes, and lamps

Burnay Jar of Vigan

Ilocos Sur

Burnay-are earthen jars of Ilocos with small openings.

Wagging- is a jar with bigger mouths

In the early years, the burnay, locally known as tapayan or banga, was used for storage of water, rice grains, basi (sugarcane wine) and condiments like salt and bagoong (fish paste).

The burnay is made of clay mashed by carabaos and mixed with sand.

It is made using Potter's wheel -a machine used in making clayware.

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