Tissa Ranasinghe - Grade 10 Lesson
Grade 10 · ART · Sri Lankan Artists
A Grade 10 lesson presentation introducing the sculptor Tissa Ranasinghe: his early life and training, his move into modern bronze sculpture, the distinctive elongated forms and surface treatment of his figures, and his place among the Sri Lankan artists studied at this level.
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Tissa Ranasinghe (1925-2018) was a Sri Lankan sculptor best known for bronze figurative work, made using the lost-wax casting method - a technique with real historical depth in Sri Lanka, going back to Chola-period bronzes centuries earlier. He trained and worked substantially in the United Kingdom, which shaped a practice that combined a modern sculptural sensibility with subjects and forms rooted in South Asian tradition.
When a question names a sculptor rather than a painter, it's usually testing whether you can discuss form in three dimensions specifically - weight, volume, the way a bronze surface catches light - rather than composition and colour, which is what most of this unit's other artists are assessed on.
