Visual Studies 28/09/2010

In today's visual studies lesson I created a piece of drawing using an object used in every day life.

Like Colin (lecturer) and I noticed, the drawing needs more tone.  Basically I need to make the darker parts more darker and the light more lighter, to expand the tonal range.  At the moment it's in the middle.

Contextual Studies 28/09/2010

In today's lecture Graham talked about 'Ways of seeing' and 'Ways of understanding'.

'Ways of seeing'

One of the things we looked at was the idea of looking at paintings from a different point of view, instead of just straight on. Looking from a different point of view can make one have a different interpretation.

A painting by Hans Holbein, a German artist, has an anamorphosis in it. An anamorphous is a distorted or monstrous projection or representation of an image on a plane or curved surface, which, when viewed from a certain point, or as reflected from a curved mirror or through a polyhedron, appears regular and in proportion.

'The Ambassadors' by Hans Holbein

The skull at the bottom, which would be seen from standing on the left side looking from a 27° angle downwards. Christ can be seen looking 27° upwards.

This is definitely an amazing piece of artwork and I really like the idea of using anamorphosis in paintings...truely amazing.

"Ways of understanding"
One of the things we looked at was iconology.  Erwin Panofsky, a German art historian, idea of three levels of art-historical understanding, in his 1939 work 'Studies in Iconology'.
1) Primary subject matter
2) Secondary subject matter
(iconography)
3) Intrinsic meaning
(iconography)


Panofsky interpreted Jan van Eyck's 'The Arnolfini Marriage' as not only a depiction of a wedding ceremony, but also a visual contract testifying to the act of marriage.


'The Arnolfini Marriage' by Jan van Eyck

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Learnt something very interesting in today's lecture... =)

3D Design 27/09/2010

Had an amazing day of 3D design. I'm looking at the "negative/ positive" space within objects, etc.

Last week, I decided to look at Edward Tufte, an American statistician, who is also a sculpture artist. He also looks at the negative/positve space within objects.

I also decided to look at Japanese text. I chose to do this because not only do I like the language but it's also different to what I spreak normally. So basically, I'm looking at the negative & positive space within the Katakana and Hirigana symbols.

I made a few example models too.
 

And, as a whole class we did some test pieces in the workshop with a copper plate and used some tools to engrave into it.


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Yesterday, I analysed two diferent types of buildings, the Midland Square, Japan, and traditional Japanese buildings/houses.  I'm linking architecture into this project as that's the field that I am going into in the future.
The Midland Square is a great architecure piece.  It has an amazing structure design, which is like the human body and skeleton.

I started creating another example model, this time with the idea of adding a sructure....I will continue on this and create some more models....

I also started creating a test piece...this piece is supposed to be like Shoji....will have to continue with it to see if it's successful...

1st post

Hi, everyone. =)

Well, this is my first post.
Created this blog to post and display my work I'm doing on the Art Foundation cousre.

Already have a blog on Ameba, but I thought it'd be better if I also have one on Blogger.

Here goes....