October Project #2!

(first concentration piece!)"

Critique Date- Friday Oct. 28th "

Due Date- Wednesday Nov. 3rd "

*REMEMBER YOUR 5 pages per

week (will be checking your progress

every Wednesday!"

IDEAS for Project Direction-!

•! Self (you, your identity, self image, self-esteem) "

•! Family or ethnic group (not necessarily yours)"

•! Science & Technology "

•! Dreams/the surreal world,/alternate reality/questioning reality"

•! Society/Public vs. Private"

•! Gender issues"

•! Capitalism/ (Free) Trade/Economic equality/Globalism"

•! Epistemology (i.e.. how we know what we know)/TOK"

•! Conflict/resolution/war/peace"

•! Art/History/Art History/Interpretation"

•! Origins/Beginnings/Endings/divisions in time"

•! Age/Adolescence/Biological growth/evolution"

•! Location"

•! Power"

•! Symbols/Systems of Meaning/Codes"

•! Kitsch/Taste/Fashion"

•! Story/Narrative"

•! Humor/dark humor/"

•! Shock/Horror/Ugliness"

•! Any other suitable (and approved by Ms. G) filter you might want to consider"

Art Forms"

•! Community Art Forms- Glass Blowing, Wheel Thrown Pottery (Aragorn/Bamboushay)"

•! Mixed Media Collage- "•! Painting-"•! Watercolour"•! Tempera"•! Acrylic"

•! Oils"•! Drawing-"•! Pen and Ink"•! Charcoal"•! Pastel- Soft, Oil, Chalk"•! Conte Crayon"

•! India Ink"•! Tempera Resist"•! Sharpie"•! Prisma color Markers"•! Drawing with needle and thread (stitching the line)"•! Printmaking-"

•! Linoleum Block"•! Monoprint"•! Scratchboard"•! Collograph"

•! Digital/Video/Projection-"

•! Photography"

•! Photoshop"

•! Animation"

•! Stop-motion"

•! Time Lapse "

•! Sculpture- additive and subtractive"

•! Paper Mache"

•! Wire"

•! Found Object"

•! Clay- Sculpture in the Round/Relief Sculpture"

•! Plaster- Poured into a mold or Casting using bandages"

•! Wood "

•! Sand"

•! Other- "

•! Mosaic"

•! Stencils"

•! Batik"

•! Textiles- Fabric"

•! Fashion Design"

•! On-going projects (such as photo for every day for a month… or time lapse videos)"

Sculpture!

Month!"

•!Paper Mache, Wire, Found Object, Clay, Plaster, Wood, Sand etc!"

•!On island opportunities- Blown Glass, Wheel Throwing (Bamboushay or Trellis)"

Sculpture"

Sculpture is created in four basic ways:"

•! Carving"

•! Modeling"

•! Casting"

•! Construction"

Sculpture"

Carving:!

Subtractive process: material is removed"

Mainly wood and stone (marble)"

Abstract Plaster Reduction Sculpture"

•! http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/high/Maria-plaster.htm"

Sculpture"

Modeling:!

Additive process: material is added"

Clay, wax, plaster, paper-mache"

Sculpture"

Casting: a mold is used to form molten

bronze(or other material) into a desired shape."

http://www.verylgoodnight.com/casting3.html"

Sculpture"

Casting: “Lost wax” method or cire-perdue,

often used for jewelry or small sculptures"

http://library.thinkquest.org/23492/data/

bronze.htm?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0318"

12"

A plaster cast is a copy made in plaster of another 3-dimensional form."

The original from which the cast is taken may be a sculpture, building, a face, a fossil, or other remains such as fresh or fossilized footprints – particularly

in paleontology."

Plaster is applied to the original to create a mould or CAST (that is a negative impression) of the

original." This mould is then removed and fresh plaster is poured into it, creating a copy in plaster of the

original. "Plaster cast bust of George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon is based on a life mask cast in 1786.#

Plaster Cast Relief Painting: !

13"

Sculpture"

Construction: welding, gluing, nailing

materials together. "

Sculpture"

Assemblage: assembling found objects in

unique ways. "

Joseph Cornell"

Use recycled materials"

Sculpture"

Kinetic Sculpture: movable parts (wind)"

Alexander Calder: the mobile"

Sculpture"

Relief: attached to a surface"

High Relief Bas Relief"

Sculpture"

Free-standing or sculpture in the round."

Sculpture"

Tools: chisels armature"

Sculpture Mini-Project!

This month we will experiment with Plaster casting in class!!

Choices-!

•! Casting-Plaster Bandages to Cast body/faces "

•! (incorporate them into a bigger picture?)"

•! Modeling- Sand Sculpture"

•! Subtractive Method- Pouring Plaster and using reduction/subtractive method "

•! Assemblage- Found objects/Recycled Objects"

Theme: Sculpture as a Metaphor!

•! Will your artwork be realistic, abstract or non-objective?"

•! Create thumbnail sketches of various ideas – make notes next to each sketch. You will need to draw your thumbnails from the front, side and back and add color!"

A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image,

story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or

some intangible quality or idea."

"Her eyes were glistening jewels”"

Visual Metaphor-!

The representation of a person, place, thing, or idea by way

of a visual image that suggests a particular association or

point of similarity.!

Great little metaphor website- "

http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric5.htm#Metaphor"

Example of Metaphor from DP English Class-!

The Feminine Mystique: "The New Woman, soaring free, hesitates in midflight, shivers in

all that blue sunlight and rushes back to the cozy walls of home”!

Explanation: This metaphor directly compares the woman to a bird that has found

freedom. Yet, what this metaphor indicates, indirectly through the actions of the bird, is

that the woman does not relish in this new found freedom, but is unsure of how to deal

with it and so retracts to the rigid mold she has known all her life - here referred to as "the

cozy walls of home".!

Effect in the text: Friedan's use of the bird metaphor emphasises the vulnerable, fragile

nature of women at this time in history. Her portrayal of the bird as "soaring free" adds a

sense of hope in the midst of the text, which has, up to this point, discussed the oppression

and lack of freedoms enjoyed by women. The bird's actions, however, reflect a more

realistic image of the newly-liberated women of the 1960s who, under the weight of social

pressure, here termed as "all that blue sunlight", retracts back into the socially-accepted

role to which she is used to, referred to here as "the cozy walls of home".!

Effect on the reader/viewer: This metaphor initially provides the reader with a greater

understanding of the solitary, vulnerable nature of women. The bird is described in

isolation which helps the reader to see that the feminist movement began with largely

isolated pockets of resistance. Whilst this initial description gives the reader a sense of

hope, this is soon turned to a sense of disappointed as the woman retracts back into the

comforts of her home. The effect of this metaphor, therefore, is to enable the reader to

understand the complicated, psychological nature of liberation."