ART 171 Sculpture I
Suffolk County Community College
Professor: Matthew Gehring
gehrinm@sunysuffolk.edu
Office: Rm. 108 Southampton Bldg.
Office Hours:
Monday 1:00PM - 5:00PM
Tuesday 11:00AM - 12:30PM and 2:45 - 3:45
Wednesday: 10:00AM - 5:00PM
Thursday: 11:00AM - 12:30PM and 2:45 - 3:45
Suffolk County Community College
Professor: Matthew Gehring
gehrinm@sunysuffolk.edu
Office: Rm. 108 Southampton Bldg.
Office Hours:
Monday 1:00PM - 5:00PM
Tuesday 11:00AM - 12:30PM and 2:45 - 3:45
Wednesday: 10:00AM - 5:00PM
Thursday: 11:00AM - 12:30PM and 2:45 - 3:45
Objectives:
This course aims to give you a diverse vocabulary in historical and contemporary sculpture using the figure as a point of study AND departure. This assignment is designed to help develop the foundation of that vocabulary by isolating each of the elements and principles of design. This is the alphabet upon which we build all visual language.
Collage (as a two dimensional, "constructed" image) can be considered the discovery that gave rise to modern sculpture. Picasso's collages gave rise to his paper constructions. This is the first ever use of a constructed form (as opposed to carved, cast, or modeled) for sculpture in the history of art. Construction came to be the dominant method for making sculpture throughout the twentieth century and it still is. Could we also consider collage as flat sculpture or flat architecture? Perhaps... Let this affect how you think about and build this project.
Assigned reading: Collage - by Clement Greenberg
Highlight and annotate the essay, include every name and term that you are unfamiliar with. Due date: next class.
This course aims to give you a diverse vocabulary in historical and contemporary sculpture using the figure as a point of study AND departure. This assignment is designed to help develop the foundation of that vocabulary by isolating each of the elements and principles of design. This is the alphabet upon which we build all visual language.
Collage (as a two dimensional, "constructed" image) can be considered the discovery that gave rise to modern sculpture. Picasso's collages gave rise to his paper constructions. This is the first ever use of a constructed form (as opposed to carved, cast, or modeled) for sculpture in the history of art. Construction came to be the dominant method for making sculpture throughout the twentieth century and it still is. Could we also consider collage as flat sculpture or flat architecture? Perhaps... Let this affect how you think about and build this project.
Assigned reading: Collage - by Clement Greenberg
Highlight and annotate the essay, include every name and term that you are unfamiliar with. Due date: next class.
Requirements:
In your sketchbook, build a full page collage (at least) that clearly illustrates each term as it's emphasis. That's one page per design term. Although, they never exist alone, do your best to isolate them. See if you can find a way to reduce each term completely unto itself. Clip images from books, magazines, brochures, product packaging, etc. Find ways to carefully select, cut, and assemble your collage so that the structure of the collage itself works to the service of each specific design element and principle. Do not download and print images for this. This project is intended to get you to gather things from the physical world (plus, inkjet and laser prints do not hold up well to being saturated with glue). Each page must also contain the handwritten term and its definition as an isolated caption. They should be "all together" in one section of your sketchbook, not scattered through other assignments or drawings. Grades will be assessed on the clarity of your visual translation of the terms, effort, creativity, originality, and inventiveness; the more of it you demonstrate, the higher your grade will be.
Elements and Principles of Design
Line: The path of a point in two or three dimensional space
Color:
The spectrum of light available to the naked human eye, as identified
with names such as red, blue, yellow, etc... Color is relative and
malleable.
Shape:
The perceivable (usually visual) area of a form. Can be simple or
complex, geometric or organic, human-made or naturally occurring.
Form: The shape and structure of an object in three dimensions
Value: Relative* lightness or darkness
Texture: Actual or simulated tactile quality
Space: Area as measured in height, width, and depth, can be positive or negative (void)
Scale: Overall size of an object
Proportion: Relative size within a work
Unity: Sense of "wholeness" achieved through repetition, rhythm, pattern
Balance: Distribution of visual weight to achieve harmony. Can be symmetrical or asymmetrical
Direction: Gestures, lines, forms, etc. that create visual movement, i.e., that move the eye
Emphasis: Dominant portion of a work or form
Rhythm: Visual repeated intervals (pattern)
Rhythm: Visual repeated intervals (pattern)
