Wednesday, April 6, 2011

VI. Mass/Creative and Functional Design: Toy, Game or Invention

 Invent - the creation of something in the mind


Bicycle - Pierre and Ernest Michaux


 Hot Air Balloon - Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier


Reaper - Cyrus McCormick

 Safety pin - Walter Hunt


ZipperW. L. Judson





Mass- A coherent, typically large body of matter with no definite shape.


Puryear


'What Have We Become? Vol. 1' Nicholas Galanin


'Fat Car' Erwin Wurm


'Endoskeleton' Jacqueline Rush Lee


World sculpture at United Nations headquarters

"Sphere within Sphere" by Arnaldo Pomodoro







Weight -  a body's relative mass or the quantity of matter contained by it, giving rise to a downward force; the heaviness of a person or thing

 "1 Rope" by Eva Hesse








 "Camels IV, V, VI" by Nancy Graves
 "Spitzhacke Kassel" by Claus Oldenburg
 "Corridor Pin" by Claus Oldenburg


"Umbrellas" by Christo


Gravity - the force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth, or toward any other physical body having mass.

                                                        

Presence - the state or fact of existing, occurring, or being present in a place or thing


Coqui by Tom Otterness


Homage to Miró -  Eduardo Chillida



Wind Combs - Eduardo Chillida


Spider - Louise Bourgeois


 Melange Series - Bernard Katz







Absence the nonexistence or lack of


Edward Tufte



 Eulogy to Water - Eduardo Chillida



The Eulogy to the Horizon - Eduardo Chillida


House of Goeth -   Eduardo Chillida



 Impromptu - Robyn Horn






Negative Space - the space around and between the subject(s) of an image


      

'Timelapse' Peter Murphy




Negative Space Pillow - Mathilde Roussel-Giraudy






Negative Space Study - Edward Tufte


Your House (Inside A Book) - Olafur Eliasson 



Phases Of The Moon, Version III - 


Bruce Hathaway














Wednesday, March 30, 2011

V. STRUCTURE/ABSTRACTION: Anti Ray Mask


My mask is a dead set against self-portrait of my morals, my personality, and my appearance. I created an anti-ray mask essentially. Most of my artwork doesn’t have such a negative or dark element to it. I wanted to show that the opposite of me has two very depressing personas or faces. One face looks like my own but very gory and very textured. It has one eye cover up with gauze bandage, symbolizing the neglect to be open minded, and the other is glowing which is not allowing you to see directly into the eyes of the real person or the person behind the mask, symbolizing the inability of ignorance to see through or past their cynical judgments. The mouth is sown shut symbolizing how evil thought are often kept inside and shut away until one day when they are released in a self defeating fashion. The second face is shown peeling away from the first face with great emotional distress. The face is another personality that I am not. It symbolizes a sort of completely submissive running solely on emotion, pathetic being who I never want to become. The two faces are sort of Remorse and satisfaction of ignorance juxtaposed.