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ART 208.01 Introduction to Sculpture

Project Review Writings

For each of your 3 projects the final design assignment begins by asking you to write a review of your initial design as a way to begin to figure out how you can develop and improve it in preparation to a final design model. The prompts are always the same (see below). The writing should be submitted via email (an attached word doc titled accordingly (yourlastname_ proj1review.docx, yourlastname_ proj2review.docx, yourlastname_ proj3review.docx).

Review Writing: No less than 4 typed pages. This is an exercise to be done before you revise not afterwards… Do it while actually looking at your initial drawings and models! See an online review writing sample to help you understand how to best approach this review writing. Note how this sample actually pastes each prompt into the writing and then answers it.

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:

· Body gesture/ pose

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

· 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:

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

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

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

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

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

· surface treatments (color, drawing, textures)

· 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: Review your various speculations from above and list five specific ways you envision physically altering your design to better achieve your expressive goals.