This week I've actually made a lot of progress on my sculpture. I've finalized most of my shapes and have cut out so far 7 of them. So right now I'm trying to figure out the final structure. I've adapted my idea to have a human figure that will be holding another piece that acts as a scale in the mobile. I think I want to laser cut this too but I have to figure out how. I am so far very happy with my laser cut shapes. On Friday, I decided to do two colors for the fries and I love how it turned out. I also am trying to figure out the engraving feature but we'll see how much time I have. I hopefully will finish first cuts next week and try to get to a good spot to work in small chunks of time during oil painting.
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I chose Roy Lichtenstein's work to inspire mine as it had some similar qualities. His sculptural work is flat and uses graphic, "pop-art" symbols and shapes. They often had a plastic-seeming finish and sometimes have a mobile like quality (like shown above). These qualities are also reflected in my piece which focuses on symbolic flat shapes of fruits, graphic features, and it will have a mobile quality.
Roy Lichtenstein was born on October 27, 1923 in New York City. He is obviously most well known for his paintings, synonymous with pop art in general, but made other work along the way, including the sculptures shown above. As a teenager he studied at the Art Students League of NY with Reginald Marsh before going to Ohio State University. He was drafted and sent to Europe where he continued to sketch, before returning to NY. He was inspired by the Abstract Expressionist movement and used similar techniques while unlike the others incorporating some common characters (Mickey, Donald Duck). In 1961, he created Look Mickey which was his first use of Ben-Day dots that became integral to his work. He drew from comic books and newspaper strips, and became an active participant in the Pop Art Movement, focusing less on artistic expression than the Abstract Expressionists. At the time he was criticized for copying and being unoriginal. In the next years until his death in 1997, he continued to explore with his work, using new materials and moving to 3D sculptures similar to those above. Sources used for info and to answer questions: https://www.theartstory.org/artist-lichtenstein-roy.htm#synopsys_header https://lichtensteinfoundation.org/biography/ https://www.imageduplicator.com/main.php https://owlcation.com/humanities/20th-Century-Art-Movements-with-Timeline 1. Using the 3rd link above (image duplicator) look at how Lichtenstein's work has changed and transformed over the years (click on decade and then year at top). What are some qualities or mediums you notice changing or being focused on during a specific time period .(write out three different time periods and some characteristics about the work)? 2. How do you think Lichtenstein was influenced by the artistic movements over the course of his life and how can you see this reflected? What movements are occurring today and reflect on whether this has influenced your work at all? 3. There are multiple relations between Lichtenstein's pop art paintings and his sculptures. Try to find two works (painting and sculpture) that seems similar and compare them. Are there any pieces of yours you could alter to fit another medium? This week I continued to work on developing my fruit and fast food shapes via Adobe Illustrator. It definitely has a learning curve so I'm trying to figure out the different processes. I also worked in my sketchbook to figure out what to do for fast food shapes. I'm currently planning on doing french fries, pizza, a soda cup, ice cream, and a hamburger, but I think I might need one more. I also need to decide on plexiglass colors as I'm not sure if I could do multiple colors for one food shape. Hopefully in the next week I can get my shapes done and start planning the base and how/when I'm going to lasercut. This week, I continued to brainstorm ideas and started to center on specifics. To think through ideas, I created a mini moquette out of cardboard, but I think it's too small so next week I plan to make a bigger version. I also made more sketches to continue planning out how I envision it. In addition, I started exploring Adobe illustrator to learn how to use it to create a design that can be translated to a laser cut. Through this I've come up with some reflection questions such as whether I want the shapes to be flat or interlocking and maybe using lines to create the idea of shadow/highlights or using bold lines v. complete full shapes. I will use this for the fruit and fast food shapes that I think I am going to laser-cut out of colored plexiglass. I will need to figure out what shapes to do on the fast food side soon.
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