Week 3

WEEK 39/20/13

ELEMENTS & PRINCIPLES Line Shape Time & Motion Light Color Texture

Unity & Variety Balance Emphasis &

Subordination Directional Forces Contrast Repetition & Rhythm Scale & Proportion

2-D DESIGN AND MEDIUM Drawing

Types of Hatching Real Cartoon

Painting Watercolor Tempera Encaustic Oil Acrylic Fresco

Printmaking Relief Intaglio Engraving Drypoint Etching Screen Printing

WHAT ARE WE DOING? Review previous material Sculpture Digital Media Continue work on drawings

FREE STANDING SCULPTURE Seen from all sides Known as sculpture “in-the-round”

“Obus” by Alexander Calder; 1972; painted sheet metal

RELIEF SCULPTURE What was relief in

printmaking?

Not freestanding, but projects from a background surface.

Low-Relief Bas relief Slight prjection Shadows are minimal Ex: coins

High Relief More than half of the

natural circumference of molded form is projected

“Army on the March” by Angkor Wat; 1100-1150

“Corporate Wars: Wall of Influence” by Robert Longo; 1982

MODELING Additive process

Pliable material: clay, wax, plaster

Armature – rigid inner support Some sculptures do not need armature if built in

smaller pieces and put together

“California Artist” by Robert Arneson; 1982

I like art that has humor, with irony and playfulness, I want to make “high” art that is outrageous while revealing the human condition which is not always high.

- Robert Arneson

CASTING Substitution of 1 material for another

Lost – wax process

“Public Art Fund Water Tower Project” by Rachel Whiteread; 1977

CARVING Subtractive process – taking away materials

Michelangelo preferred this process

Most challenging because it is a one-way technique with little room for error

Marble is being replaced by graphite

“Awakening Slave” by Michaelangelo; 1530-1534

Mother & Child #2” by Elizabeth Catlett

KINETIC SCULPTURE Sculpture that moves

Alexander Calder Well known for his kinetic sculptures Focuses on shape, space, and movement

(mobiles) Suspended parts move in response to small air

currents

CALDER IN PHILADELPHIA http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=7daTukUjx3E

MIXED MEDIA Using a variety of media in a single work

Choice of media expresses some cultural or symbolic meaning

“Inopportune, Stage 1” by Cai Guo-Qiang; 2004

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG3H0pk4RCk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui7B7_etxUs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxE6v1jMBh0

INSTILLATIONS AND SITE-SPECIFIC ART 3-D medium of instillation to tell story usually

Similar to constructed sculpture, but entire space as an artwork and transforms

“This Piece Doesn’t Have a Title Yet” by Cady Noland; 1989

“Tilted Arc” by Richard Serra; 1981

BREAK FOR 10

PHOTOGRAPHY Evolution of photography began from the

desire of Renaissance artists to make accurate depictions of nature

Camera obscura – “Dark room” Reflected sunlight passing through hole in wall

projects onto the opposite wall an inverted imag

Daguerreotypes – first satisfactory photographs

“Le Boulevard du Temple” by Jouis Jacques Mande Daguerre

PHOTOGRAPHY Some painters believed that the new medium

was unfair

Why do you think so?

“Julia Jackson” by Julia Margaret Cameron; 1886

GRAPHIC DESIGN – CH. 9 Of all art forms, we encounter graphic

designs most frequently in our daily life

Graphic design – refers to process of working with words and pictures to enhance visual communication

Employs art and technology

Saks Fifth Avenue Logo by Michael Bierut

GD - TYPOGRAPHY Art and technique of composing printed

material from letterforms (typefaces or fonts)

“Newyorkistan” by Maira Kalman and Rick Meyerowitz