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ART 208.01 Introduction to Sculpture

PROJECT ONE: Translating the Body

 

Final Design Phase (20% of project grade)

 

Part 1. Review Writing: No less than 1200 words. This is an exercise to be done before you revise not afterwardsÉ Do it while actually looking at your initial drawings and models! Read two online review writing samples (review writing example #1 and review writing example #2) to help you understand how to best approach this review writing. Email the writing as an attached MS word doc titled yourlastname_ proj1review.docx)

 

A.    Summarize your expressive goals for your sculpture.

B.    Review your selected initial model and explore design revision options

Copy, paste all the prompts below (the digital version can be found on Bb) and answer them as specifically as possible.

 

i.       Consider how adding or modifying narrative elements might further the meaning of your sculpture. Speculate and give at least one example of an addition or change for each of the following:

á       Body gesture/ pose

á       Story telling elements (interaction with objects and or other figures, creating a particular context/environment etc.)

á       Symbolic elements (colors, signs, symbols etc.)

ii.      Consider how adding or modifying form qualities might further the meaning of your sculpture. Speculate and give at least one example of an addition or change for each of the following form categories:

á       relative scale of parts and or the overall size of the sculpture

á       type of shapes and or contrasts of shapes (rounded, angular, predictable, funny, etc.)

á       type of composition (dense, open, chaotic, organized, symmetrical, flowing/graceful, awkward etc.)

á       construction (types of joinery, attitude of construction, process of making)

á       materials (the associations certain materials have, the visceral experience of certain materials)

á       surface treatments (color, drawing, textures)

á       relationship to gravity/space including the way it relates to its base, has no base etc. (balanced/ off balance, firmly rooted/ suspended, heavy/ light etc.)

C.    Summarize:

Expressive Goals: state 5 basic adjectives that describe the overall mood/feeling you want your sculpture to have.
Revisions: List five specific ways you envision physically altering your design to better achieve your expressive goals.

 

Part 2. More Drawing: Make no less than 5 pages of drawings/collages that visualize the specific revisions brought up in your writing (for instance, if you said that you want your composition to be more graceful, I expect to see multiple sketches that explore variations of graceful compositions.) The goal of these drawings is to visually reconsider specific options within a design. DonÕt get stuck on your initial design model, draw and redraw compositional variations, the specific outline of a shape, the sizes of these shapes. Do not complete these drawings in #2 pencil only.

á       Photograph and print an image of your initial model and then trace, draw on top of and or collaging with that photo.

á       Collage with cut shapes of paper

á       Use color as desired

 

Part 3. Create a final model: This final model should be MORE than a rough sketch. You should push your design until you come up with really great stuff! Be as specific and complete as possible. This is the model from which you will construct your sculpture so use it to figure out structure, detailing etc. DonÕt fool yourself into thinking that youÕll figure unresolved aspects later on. Please do not repurpose your initial model.