Additive Project

Each of you will be given a 24"x24" piece of Plywood. This project has been designed to let you come up with new ways of creating volume with a flat object. Each finished product must fit within a 24"x24"x24" cube and come in contact with all six sides. The focus of this project is volume and achieving 3 dimensionality from a limited amount of flat material. It is up to you to choose the subject matter, must be referential or figurative. Emphasis on round, smooth, well constructed and finished pieces.

Completely abstract pieces are not allowed. 

Homework- Due August 29th

Your homework is to exercise the research and development stage of the creative process. You will do this by walking through the steps listed below. Here are the things you will need to bring to class on August 29th:

5 References w/descriptions
One-page typed document (printed out or emailed) with a list of 5 websites that you visited for your research. At least one of these websites must be an actual article (not a how-to, or list of pictures) that discusses some type of additive sculpture. Examples of an appropriate article can be a newspaper story, something written for a journal/magazine, or something from Academia/industry). The one-page document must be printed out (no exceptions). It must include one-line brief descriptions for each website. This must be fully complete to receive credit for this portion.

3 Detailed Drawings of your sculpture
The drawings must be in your sketchbook using full pages(both sides when open) The drawing should show good use of the elements of design- line, form, color, texture, etc.  (Note: These are fully-resolved drawings, NOT sketches)

In addition, the drawings should be informative; they should give us helpful information. Please be sure your drawings answer the following questions:
1. How is your sculpture physically organized? Show details.

2. How will the viewer be engaged? Be detailed and use color/texture/collage to show this.
3. What formal qualities are you focusing on? Descriptions/diagrams in the drawings should address this. (positive/negative space, weight/tension, balance, representational/abstract)
4. What concept are you engaging? Again, descriptions/diagrams could be helpful.
5. How is the form of your sculpture communicating? Scale, shape, text, etc.
6. What is the working title? This should be clearly labeled in your drawing.

Materials and project ready to work
You must come prepared with all materials and tools to work. All sketches must be done and a plan made to execute your Project.

Essay: Large Scale of the 1960's and 70's

Read as much as you can and look at the images. Answer the questions here: https://goo.gl/forms/Qt4loFBUVCzege1k1

Rubric for Homework
5 References = 10pts
3 Drawings = 30pts
Questions = 30pts

Materials/Project = 30pts
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Total Possible  = 100pts

A =100 - 90
B = 89 - 80
C = 79 - 70
D = 69 - 60
F = 59 - 0 

Please be prepared at beginning of class with your own self-assessment based on the above rubric. 


Final Project Due Date

September 10th- Project Due/Critique

Tom Friedman

Mark Di Suvero

Martin Puryear

Tony Cragg

Louise Nevelson

Richard Artschwager

Readymade

Readymade - Due August 22nd

Duchamp created the first ready-made, Bicycle Wheel (1913), which consisted of a wheel mounted on a stool, as a protest against the excessive importance attached to works of art. This work was technically a “ready-made assisted,” because the artist intervened by combining two objects. Duchamp subsequently made “pure ready-mades,” each of which consisted of a single item, such asBottle Rack (1914), and the best-known ready-made, the porcelain urinal entitled Fountain (1917). By selecting mass-produced, commonplace objects, Duchamp attempted to destroy the notion of the uniqueness of the art object. The result was a new, controversial definition of art as an intellectual rather than a material process.

Duchamp and his ready-mades were embraced by the artists who formed the nihilistic Dada movement from 1916 to the 1920s; Duchamp became Dada’s main proponent in the United States. The ready-made continued to be an influential concept in Western art for much of the 20th century. It provided a major basis for the Pop art movement of the 1950s and ’60s, which took as its subject matter commonplace objects from popular culture. The intellectual emphasis of ready-mades also influenced the conceptual art movement that emerged in the 1960s, which considers the artist’s idea more important than the final product.

You will bring in an object changing its context from a mass produced everyday object into a art piece. Using methods such as adding a title that changes the way we think about the object or creating a new way of displaying are acceptable ways of elevating an object into art. 

In addition to bringing in your object, please read this essay: Rosalind Kraus Forms of the Readymade in the Dropbox folder and answer these questions: https://goo.gl/forms/i8OQqgjMRk56UKvK2