Forgotten Something By Bruno Catalano Essay

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According to googles’ online dictionary, sculpture could be defined as the art of making two or three dimensional representative or abstract forms, especially by carving stone or wood or by casting metal or plaster. The above sculpture, Forgotten Something, is by French artist Bruno Catalano. When studying different sculptures, it can be shown how each piece can stand for different things. While researching this specific sculpture, I learned that Bruno Catalano created this piece to depict a world citizen. During this assignment, I will be focusing on giving an in depth description of the sculpture, telling about the sculpture’s “in the round” point of view, and the building of this bronze sculpture.

This sculpture was one that I found to be very interesting. This artwork depicts the image of a male figure carrying a bag. The bag could represent a traveling stage in one’s life. The bigger idea of this sculpture is the man’s missing internal structure. Growing up I’ve always heard people state that they feel empty in life or that something is missing, but I never understood until becoming a young adult. This sculpture to me means traveling throughout life trying to gather your emotional losses. This sculpture could have been the artist’s way of showing how empty he felt as a man living in this world. It is evident that when missing several major organs, you’re dead. When we as humans go through emotional down points …show more content…

This is a sculptural space that describes having to move around a sculpture in order to see things from different views. Looking from the front and back of the sculpture, it is beyond obvious that this man is missing his inside structure. If you were just walking up to the sculpture approaching the left side, you wouldn’t automatically focus on its disappearing insides, but the full arm and the bag. If approaching from the right side, it’s obvious of the missing arm and internal

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