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Anthony Caro, Black Cover Flat, 1974

Welded sculpture (related to visual art and works of art) is an artform in which sculpture is made using welding techniques. Welding was increasingly used in sculpture from the 1930s as new industrial processes such as arc welding were adapted to aesthetic purposes^[1]. Welding techniques, including digital cutting, can be used to cut and join metal. Welded sculpture is sometimes site-specific.

Artist Richard Hunt said "The idea of exploiting welding methods and the tensile strength of metals opened up many possibilities to me. This idea was actually linked to the increasing recognition among artists that an art which was representative of our own time ought to use materials and techniques that were at hand, whether it was new experiments using plastics, new kinds of paints, new kinds of surfaces in painting, or using materials developed during the war effort.^[2]"

Artists who have worked in welded sculpture include:

[edit] External links

Richard Hunt: Freeing the Human Soul

[edit] Notes and references

^ Welded Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, Judy K.Van Wagner Collischan, Lund Humphries, 2000
^ Richard Hunt: Freeing the Human Soul
^ Eric Gibson, The Sculpture of Clement Meadmore, Hudson Hills Press, 1994 ISBN 1-55595-098-1

[edit] Further reading

Creating Welded Sculpture By Nathan Cabot Hale, Courier Dover Publications, 1994
Welded Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, Judy K.Van Wagner Collischan, Lund Humphries, 2000

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[0] Welded Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, Judy K.Van Wagner Collischan, Lund Humphries, 2000

[1] Richard Hunt: Freeing the Human Soul

[2] Eric Gibson, The Sculpture of Clement Meadmore, Hudson Hills Press, 1994 ISBN 1-55595-098-1

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