tailieunhanh - Gsa finearts sculpture

The plate paintings continue to examine painting’s objectness and its relationship to the image drawn on it. The plates break up the image but at the same time have a unifying effect on the painting as a whole. They provide a skeleton on which the paint can be applied like flesh. These paintings, such as The Patients and the Doctors, 1978, and Circumnavigating the Sea of Shit, 1979, have a surface which is rough because of the plates and a three dimensional support which is thicker than regular paintings. The paintings have a pronounced plasticity | Sculpture _ JJ O00SlC 01 WM Introduction Four maintenance principles for all cases Weathering steel Bare mild steel Bare aluminum Stainless steel Painted metal and wood Bronze copper and brass Stone 0 Wood 1 Ceramics and glass Introduction This document describes cyclic maintenance procedures for common types of sculpture. Cyclic maintenance consists of actions by untrained or semi-trained staff often building maintenance personnel that should be performed repeatedly and can be safely performed repeatedly to prolong good appearance and physical condition. The work is generally cost-effective and can delay the need for more costly specialized attention or involved procedures. Sculpture in most collections has not often received regular maintenance so the effects of these well-meaning measures on the sculpture need to be evaluated after several years by a conservator. The best maintenance may be to do nothing at all. Never allow overzealous misguided or erroneous work to be performed. Only the most common problems those that need to be addressed several times a year or at least once a year are presented. All other problems must be individually addressed by conservators or collections managers. The cyclic maintenance instructions presented in this document are purposely designed to be succinct as well as safe to perform for those with limited training or no training at all. Where procedures do call for some minimal training these are so identified. The instructions are formatted in a way that makes them suitable for use in a maintenance procedures database or as hand-outs for maintenance personnel. All those performing maintenance should have a supervisor assigned and available to assure through follow-up inspection that the maintenance was performed and that no damage has occurred as well as to be available to answer questions. The supervisor should have contact with a collections manager or other preservation authority to get questions from maintenance .