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Fragment Exercise

a color photograph of a studio exercise featuring balanced terracotta fragmentary forms
Yixuan Wang
a color photograph of a studio exercise featuring three balanced clay fragmentary forms
Rose Moon, 2021

The fragment exercise is the first exercise that asks students to create their own forms. Once a form is sculpted from clay it should be sliced into fragments and arranged, with the same principles of the previous exercises, into a complex, balanced, and interesting arrangement.