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    Welded sculpture is an art form where sculpture is created using welding techniques. Julio González is credited as one of the earliest developers of welded sculpture in the early 20th century after learning welding techniques while working in a factory. Welding became increasingly used in sculpture from the 1930s onward as new industrial welding processes were adapted for artistic purposes. Associated artists who have used welding in their sculptures include Pablo Picasso, David Smith, Anthony Caro, and Richard Serra.

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    Welded sculpture is an art form where sculpture is created using welding techniques. Julio González is credited as one of the earliest developers of welded sculpture in the early 20th century after learning welding techniques while working in a factory. Welding became increasingly used in sculpture from the 1930s onward as new industrial welding processes were adapted for artistic purposes. Associated artists who have used welding in their sculptures include Pablo Picasso, David Smith, Anthony Caro, and Richard Serra.

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    Welded sculpture uses welding techniques to create sculptures. Key artists who developed this technique include Julio González and Pablo Picasso.

    The Catalan artist Julio González is credited as one of the earliest developers of welded sculpture.

    In 1918, he developed an interest in the artistic possibilities of welding, after learning the technique whilst working in the Renault Factory at Boulogne-Billancourt.

    Welded sculpture

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    Daphné, Julio González, bronze fos, 140 x 66 x 29 cm. 1937, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern.

    Welded sculpture (related to visual art and works of art) is an art form in


    which sculpture is made using welding techniques.

    Contents

     1History
     2Associated artists
     3External links
     4Notes and references
     5Further reading

    History[edit]

    Anthony Caro, Black Cover Flat, 1974


    The Catalan artist Julio González is credited as one of the earliest developers of
    welded sculpture. González came from a line of metalsmith workers; his
    grandfather was a goldsmith in Galicia, who established in the Catalan capital in
    the early 19th century. González's father, Concordio González, owned a workshop
    and as a young boy, González learned from him the techniques of gold, silver, and
    iron metalwork. He is associated with the Spanish circle of artists of Montmartre,
    including Pablo Gargallo, Juan Gris and Max Jacob. In 1918, he developed an
    interest in the artistic possibilities of welding, after learning the technique whilst
    working in the Renault Factory at Boulogne-Billancourt. This technique would
    subsequently become his principal contribution to sculpture, though during this
    period he also painted and —especially— created jewellery pieces. In 1920 he
    renewed his acquaintance with Pablo Picasso, for whom he later provided
    technical assistance in executing sculptures in iron, participating to Picasso's
    researches on analytic cubism. He also forged the infrastructures of Constantin
    Brâncuși's plasters. In the winter of 1927-28, he showed Picasso how to use oxy-
    fuel welding and cutting. When their friendship re-established itself, Picasso and
    González collaborated on a piece called Woman in the Garden between 1928-
    1930. From October 1928 till 1932, both men worked together. Influenced by
    Picasso, the fifty-year-old González changed his style, exchanging bronze for iron,
    and volumes for lines. González began to formalize a new visual language in
    sculpture that would change the course of his career. [1]

    Sculptures by North Edmonton Sculpture Workshop artists Andrew French, Ryan McCourt, and Robert


    Willms.

    Welding was increasingly used in sculpture from the 1930s as new industrial
    processes such as arc welding were adapted to aesthetic purposes.[2] Welding
    techniques, including digital cutting, can be used to cut and join metal. Welded
    sculptures are 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."[3]"

    Associated artists[edit]
     Aleš Veselý
     Alexander Calder
     Andrew French
     Anthony Caro
     Antoine Pevsner
     Beverly Pepper
     Bruce Gray
     Charles Ginnever
     David Smith
     James Rosati
     John Raymond Henry
     Julio González
     Ken Macklin
     Kevin Caron
     Lyman Kipp
     Nancy Graves
     Pablo Gargallo
     Pablo Picasso
     Peter Hide
     Peter Reginato
     Revs
     Richard Serra
     Richard Hunt
     Robert H. Hudson
     Robert Willms
     Royden Mills
     Ryan McCourt
     Tim Scott
     TEJN
     Todor Todorov
     Vera Mukhina

    External links[edit]
     Richard Hunt: Freeing the Human Soul
     Janet Goldner: Welded Steel Sculpture

    Notes and references[edit]


    1. ^ Le Monde, Julio Gonzalez, la révolution du fer, 4 July 2007 (in French)
    2. ^ Welded Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, Judy K.Van Wagner Collischan, Lund
    Humphries, 2000
    3. ^ "Sculpture.org". www.sculpture.org. Retrieved  Aug 12,  2019.
    Further reading[edit]
     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

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welded_sculpture

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