Texture-Music Interaction in Sculpture Work

Abstract

Sculpture is the art of creating three dimensional forms by using various tools and conveying emotions and thoughts by means of the aesthetic values created in such way. The work of art that comes out in the end may be a form of art that shows abstract or solid features. Statues could be used to tell about persons and sometimes about emotions. The effect of a statue in telling about the emotions could convert into a description related to the language of the material used, and sometimes it is the texture of the form that strengthens this language of description. Each stage from clay kneading to the appearance of form is completed by sensing the various features of surface and texture by means of the sense of touching. This sensitivity that comes out with the use of sense of touching also shows itself through the appearance of the texture over the surface of the tool. The changes in the understandings of texture line depend on persons or their emotional conditions at that specific moment. The subject of this study is how does a soft tone or hard tone in a piece of music being listened to affects a three dimensional form being worked on. The problem of the research is what kind of a sense does the music or the sense of hearing contribute to the already changing nature of the texture that comes out by the use of sense of touching and seeing. 8 students in Visual Arts Education and there are two working group of this study. The students in Visual Arts Education listened to the “Carmina Burana - Fortuna” concerto by Carl Orff. Also, students were given artificial textures such as soft, sharp, wavy ones as well as the organic textures, and they were asked to use the ones which they have found to associate with the music they have listened to. The students in Visual Arts Education have created textures on three dimensional forms accompanied by the music during which the independent observants observed the application taking notes. The interview and observation notes were analyzed with the content analysis in the NVivo 8 package program, and the findings of the study were interpreted by matrix and models