Sculpture

Just to finalize the project, this is the approximate size of the construction:

Titles – the right place?

So I was thinking about the titling again. After last critics session I’ve decided that it’s just a matter of a game of words. Like it is for Maurizio Cattelan. It can be achieved with other sculptures also. For example, this work of Nera Granic:

She considers this thing ugly and tells that it deals with perfection, when I consider this thing beautiful and deals with something else. Originally this is a deer head on the wall, made out of a papier mache and sprayed with different colors paint over it to create an illusion of horns (probably). On left there is a word “perfection” written a few times. I really think that it’s not necessary to have this word there, but the right title.

I came up with this title: “Rainbow sheets on deer”. Which is a play of words, I hope I don’t need to explain where and how 🙂 And it works well with photography, I mean, I could just take photos of things I want to give title to and do it!

Third prompt

Well, I’m definitely not a fun of generative art. I won’t even try to go into this question of is it art or not, I just don’t like. There were a few obvious solutions for generating this kind of art, since I was dealing with pixels during this semester, I’ve decided to continue with it.

Sculpture – final molds

I’ve finally found the right proportion of sand and polyester resin for my molds. On each 100 ml I’ve used 1.5 times more sand. The result is pretty nice, the body parts look even more realistic than I’ve expected and are really strong and hard to break. Also, putting some sand on Vaseline before pouring the resin inside the cast provided the feel of a real climbing hold. I’m satisfied with the result.

Using polyester resin and sand to create the molds

Using Vaseline to easily extract the mold from the cast

Putting sand on the Vaseline to achieve the feel of climbing hold

Painting in danger

When painting was threatened by photography and then motion pictures, painters responded experimentally with the cubist, futurist, dada, surrealist and other artistic movements. Each time its death is predicted or assumed, painting rises again.

(The Creators Project 2015)

“New technologies like television and its effects, like pop culture, challenged modern painting…”

(The Creators Project 2015)

“The interesting thing is, that painting itself seems to offer a stage to reflect upon latest changes in technology and media, maybe as a result of all the debates and challenges it survived. That makes it possible to address the digital age through painting in very different ways.”

(The Creators Project 2015)

Pangburn, D. (2015). Painting’s Evolution in the Digital Age. [Blog] The Creators Project. Available at: http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/paintings-evolution-in-the-digital-age [Accessed 7 Jan. 2016].

Note…

If printers could read what we print…

Bruce Conner

Bruce Conner (1933–2008) was one of the foremost American artists of the postwar era. Emerging from the California art scene, in which he worked for half a century, Conner’s work touches on various themes of postwar American society, from a rising consumer culture to the dread of nuclear apocalypse.

Peter Saul

Peter Saul (American, b.1934), is a painter and printmaker celebrated for his satirical commentaries on political, social, and historical events in American history.

Sources: Artnet | Artsy

Artworks:

http://rogallery.com/Saul_Peter/w-74/Saul-self-portrait.htm

Interview: http://bombmagazine.org/article/3144/peter-saul

A brief history of representing of the body in Western sculpture

In Ancient Greece and Rome sculptures are realistic, very proportional, looks life like. The creators really care about the human body and culture. Unlike this, in middle ages sculptures, for example those that are attached to architecture, are not proportional, they are just symbols of human body. Renaissance brings back the realism of Ancient Greece, putting aspect on mechanics and beauty of human body. In modern art you can mix and combine all this ways of creating sculptures.

Maurizio Cattelan

Hailed simultaneously as a provocateur, prankster, and tragic poet of our times, Maurizio Cattelan has created some of the most unforgettable images in recent contemporary art. His source materials range widely, from popular culture, history, and organized religion to a meditation on the self that is at once humorous and profound.

This Italian artist is just great, I mean, look at this piece:

This Pony is my favorite. It’s also kind of a game… If you’d see the same thing on a t-shirt, it would be just another funny t-short slogan with pony body. But when you see such a thing in a gallery it’ll definitely make you think of deeper meaning. You don’t have to find it everywhere at the end, but still 🙂 He deals a lot with pony / horse bodies, like it’s almost the same piece, just without the title:

https://www.perrotin.com/Maurizio_Cattelan-works-oeuvres-12880-2.html

Does it make any difference to you? I think there is a strategy of titling that can be applied to other works in the same manner.