Renaissance Final Assentiment: Sculpting, to 3-D printing

Ben Howson
World History per. 3
11/14/14

In the beginning of the Renaissance a revolutionary type of sculpture was born, and this sculpture technique is called called physical realism or also known as classical composition. Through out the Renaissance this technique slowly evolved into basically every type of art that was ever made in the Renaissance. There is no true inventor of this remarkable technique, but there definitely were people who made it great, and were the first to do this. In the early Renaissance (1400), Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, and Donatello really guided this art technique, showing everyone this new revolutionary idea, they essentially guided, and opened a new path that no one had ever explored. Then, through out the rest of the Renaissance (1400-1600), Michelangelo, Giumbologna, and many other great artists, developed, and truly finalized physical realism. But today we are taking the technique of physical realism, and we are truly, once again revolutionizing the art of sculpture, and making it so much more, than it was back then. In the early 1980's, in America, a man by the name of Chuck Hull created the worlds first 3D, and from the 1980's to now, we have really made the path for which this incredible technique will go down. The problem that we have today in our world is, many people have lost their creativity, and really, their minds of art, unlike the people in the Renaissance. Instead, today we are more devoted to technology, and in some ways, technology has replaced art, but also at the same time, art and technology have come together. This is what has happened with physical realism, and the 3D printer, they have come together, and are revolutionizing the world once again. In fact we have taken the art of physical realism, and have used it as a base to build on, for 3D printing. We are able to create any object, any angle, from so many materials, and this is just changing the world. Today this technology is used for chemistry, rapid prototyping, apparel, automobiles, construction, electric motors and generators, firearms, medical field, communication, education, environmental use, and of course art! This technology is rapidly growing, and changing, it allows ordinary people to do, and create incredible things, at the push of a button. Today you could even buy a house hold 3D printer, so that you could make things in your home. The most incredible thing about 3D printing, is what we are going to be able to accomplish in the future, and the future is just around the corner. Medical scientists are talking about being able to create organs, and other tissues from 3D printing, so that you no longer have to get them from other people, and so that they will be without any flaws. Houses being made in days, robotic limbs, and so much more. In the Renaissance they would use physical realism sculptures for art, and art only, and that isn't a bad thing, because their are was amazing, and they specifically build these sculptures to amaze people. But 3D printing doesn't just have one purpose, art, is only one little thing that 3D printing can do. The 3D printer is faster, more precise, cheaper, and most of all easier. The 3D printer is the answer to so many of our problems, and it once again revolutionizes the art of sculpture. 

              The pictures that I have consist of things the from the Renaissance, things that we have today in terms of 3D printing, and what I think to be really cool, the future of 3D printing.