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Art III - Term 3

Project 9 and 10

Alberto Giacometti.

"Sculptor of the Soul"

"The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity."

He uses organtic curves and highly textured surfaces, negative space, distortion of porportions, exaggerated profile, elonguted, self-contained vertical figures, volume, symmetrical and subtractive process, limited color scheme.

"Fantastic Forms".

"All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what it see, and my success will always be less than my failure."

The expressive sculptural style that made him famous didn't come easily. He was born in 1901 in a small mountain village in Switzerland. He was encouraged by his father, a well-known painter. Graduated from Art school when he was 20, he moved to Paris, the city that would be his home for the rest of his life. There he met a group of artist and writers known as surrealists. In Europe during the 1920's artist and writers who had lived through WWI began to rebel against conventional values. They created work of art inspired by the inner works of the human mind, exploring memories, fantasies, and dreams. Creating unexpected relationships between objects through juxtaposition was a favorite surrealist technique. Influenced by a friend, Glacometti decided to abandoned the traditional sculpture. He used enclosed space, curved abstract geometric forms, organic shapes, negative space, balanced asymmentrical composition, small-scale, stylized, contours, 3-D, volumes, flat rectangular planes.

Space with Figures.

"Details always bothered me..so, I backed up further and further, until everything was on the verge of dissappearing."

The negative space surrounding a volume was often as important as the positive form. Mounting small-scale scuptures on porportionally large bases. He also uses cases to frame the negative space around his figures. He uses roughly modeled contrast, porportion, elangated volume, repeated static, vertical legs, coarsely texture, negative space.

1. Drawing - Create a series of drawings for a sculpture design that uniquely addresses volume.

2. Sculpture - Construct a three dimensional artwork using limited materials that conveys openess, stability, and volume.

A three dimensional artwork:

Subject is representational or abstract
conveys a sense of volume and openess
Craftsmanship and invention - making the ordinary extraordinary

Devin Prue - 3D sculpture addressing volume

What did I want to communicate? In this project, I tried to address the aspects of volume like the sculptor Alberto Giacometti. I attempted to address the surreal idea of the entire outdoors confined in a structure of a house.

What was the most successful part of the project?, How well did I communicate my ideas? I feel that this project was highly sucessful all together. The earth elements such as sand, stone, natural twine, and wood to adress the idea of the outdoors and to support the focal point

What was the most difficult or least successful part of the project? The least sucessful, or most difficult aspect of this project was the craftsmanship involved. Everything had to be exact and precise measurements where needed

What have I learned and what will I use again? I will use what I learned about craftsmanship and volume again in whatever three dimensional project I do next.

If I could recreate my sculpture, what would I change? I would change nothing about my sculpture. I like it the way it is, but I may want to change the quality of the craftsmanship..

Ronnie Rogers - 3D sculpture adressing volume

What was most successful? my most successful part of the project was the organic feel that Giacometti used in his sculpture.

What have you learned? I have learned how to use balance and volume in my artwork. Addressing volume like Giacometti was the hardest part of the piece and I achieved volume by making the sculpter an enclosed space.

What was least successful? In my opinion the least successful part of the piece was the blocks made of styrofoam, because it was hard to get them symetrical.

What will you use again? I will use packing tape agian because it is much diffrent from any other media, and it works. The transparent look it gives allows it to show all the effort you put in to each layer.

What would you do differently? Next time I will try to place the packing tape more precisely so it does not look so sloppy in the end. Also I would'nt have used styrofoam for the bricks its impossible for it to come out symetrical.

Jory Oursler-3D Design

What was the most successful part of the project?

Expression of detail, taken the time to hot glue each piece of reed and the details that are on the duck blind. also by using volume like Alberto Giacometti did in his sculpture.

What was the most difficult or least successful part of the project?

The frame, the frame looks too plain for the project.

What have I learned and what will I use again?

Have patience on something that is going to take time to complete. I would use everything again no matter how long it will take me as long as it looks good at the end.

If I could recreate my drawing, what would I change?

I would put decoys in the front of the blind and make it seem like ducks are pitching into the decoys. I would also take out the frame

Katelin Murphy- 3D sculpture adressing volume