This project will be self-directed. Building on our knowledge of the previous project, as well as the lectures, readings, and viewings regarding the artistic value of professional wrestling, you will be tasked with creating a sculpture that represents a spectacle of your own choosing. This spectacle must have some sort of visual reference in the matches we watched.
You can make any quality your chosen spectacle, so long as you can – to reference Barthes in “The World of Wrestling” – make excessive, instantaneous, and wholly understandable.
Before physically making this sculpture, you must outline and present a work plan for your project. This plan will include, but not be limited to: size, materials, an outline of steps, how this is stretching your formal or conceptual skills, and potential problems you may run into. You also MUST include 3 screenshots from wrestling matches that embody the spectacle of your choosing. These will be inspiring starting points for your project.
For my part, I will present with you two liberating “rules” inspired by our reading of Dave Hickey’s “The Heresy of Zone Defense.” This rule be based of my assessment of your first project and will be meant to challenge you either in your fomral or conceptual skills. You must choose one rule, incorporate it into your work plan, and work with it throughout your project.
When you present your plan to me and the class, you will receive questions and feedback on how your project's intent can be clarified or edited. After this presentation, you will begin to work on the project, which we will present at the final critique. During this time, I will meet with you for about 15 minutes each for an individual meeting to discuss any problems, questions, encouragements, etc.
This project is important for these reasons:
1). To synthesize the skills and knowledge we have learned throughout the quarter.
2). To experience the (often scary!) freedom of creating a work of art from scratch.
3). To see an individual work of art through inspiration to completion, hiccups, and all. Nothing ever happens as planned, so you will be tasked with problem-solving without losing sight of your intended goal.
STUDENT 1
Chosen Spectacle: Collaboration
Rule: You must visibly use wood.
wood, ceramic bowl
Chosen Spectacle: Collaboration
Rule: You must visibly use wood.
wood, ceramic bowl
STUDENT 2
Chosen Spectacle: Sentience
Rule: Expound on the interest of biblical allegory in your chosen spectacle.
wood, ceramic
Chosen Spectacle: Sentience
Rule: Expound on the interest of biblical allegory in your chosen spectacle.
wood, ceramic
STUDENT 3
Chosen Spectacle: Futility
Rule: You must incorporate multiple plaster textures.
plaster, cardboard, chickenwire
Chosen Spectacle: Futility
Rule: You must incorporate multiple plaster textures.
plaster, cardboard, chickenwire
STUDENT 4
Chosen Spectacle: Hope
Rule: There must be no recognizable human figures.
wood, plaster, paper, metal screws
Chosen Spectacle: Hope
Rule: There must be no recognizable human figures.
wood, plaster, paper, metal screws
STUDENT 5
Chosen Spectacle: Symmetry
Rule: There must no recognizable human figures
wood, mirror shards
Chosen Spectacle: Symmetry
Rule: There must no recognizable human figures
wood, mirror shards
STUDENT 6
Chosen Spectacle: Rage
Rule: You must visibly use plaster.
plaster, wood, metal screws
Chosen Spectacle: Rage
Rule: You must visibly use plaster.
plaster, wood, metal screws
STUDENT 7
Chosen Spectacle: Legacy
Rule: You are not allowed to use metal.
wood, marble
Chosen Spectacle: Legacy
Rule: You are not allowed to use metal.
wood, marble
STUDENT 8
Chosen Spectacle: Ascension
Rule: You cannot use hand tools when working with wood.
wood
Chosen Spectacle: Ascension
Rule: You cannot use hand tools when working with wood.
wood
STUDENT 9
Chosen Spectacle: Harmony
Rule: Expound on the concept of the cage in relation to chosen spectacle.
wood, plaster, chicken wire, fake flowers
Chosen Spectacle: Harmony
Rule: Expound on the concept of the cage in relation to chosen spectacle.
wood, plaster, chicken wire, fake flowers
STUDENT 10
Chosen Spectacle: Vulnerability
Rule: You must use color in a menaingful way.
wood, plaster, paper
Chosen Spectacle: Vulnerability
Rule: You must use color in a menaingful way.
wood, plaster, paper
STUDENT 11
Chosen Spectacle: Chaos
Rule: There musgt be no recognizbale human figures.
plaster, chickenwire, wood
Chosen Spectacle: Chaos
Rule: There musgt be no recognizbale human figures.
plaster, chickenwire, wood
STUDENT 12
Chosen Spectacle: Faith
Rule: You must incorporate processed wood (e.g. shaped, sanded, burned, etc).
wood, plaster, chickenwire, metal
Chosen Spectacle: Faith
Rule: You must incorporate processed wood (e.g. shaped, sanded, burned, etc).
wood, plaster, chickenwire, metal
STUDENT 13
Chosen Spectacle: Romance
Rule: Your sculpture must be twice the size as your frist project.
plaster, chickenwire, fishing line
Chosen Spectacle: Romance
Rule: Your sculpture must be twice the size as your frist project.
plaster, chickenwire, fishing line
STUDENT 1 4 (Treville)
Chosen Spectacle: Betrayal
Rule: You must visibly use wood.
plaster, chickenwire, wood, pipe cleaner
Chosen Spectacle: Betrayal
Rule: You must visibly use wood.
plaster, chickenwire, wood, pipe cleaner
This is an open-ended assignment in which you must create an image completely of your own design. It can be about or represent whatever you want (class appropriate of course). Think of something that excites you, as you will be spending time on this project for the remainder of the quarter.
Before physically making this image, you must outline and present a work plan for your project. This plan will include, but not be limited to: size, materials, an outline of steps, how this is stretching your formal or conceptual skills, and potential problems you may run into, and how it relates to our readings of Berger, Jiro, and our principles of composition.
When you present your plan to me and the class, you will receive questions and feedback on how your project's intent can be clarified or edited. After this presentation, you will begin to work on the project, which we will present at the final critique. During this time, I will meet with you for about 15 minutes each for an individual meeting to discuss any problems, questions, encouragements, etc.
Technical parameters:
- The size of this image should be at least 20x30”. (Our largest paper size is 12x18”)
- You must visibly utilize these materials: markers, colored pencils, crayons, graphite pencils, construction paper
- You must clearly evoke these principles of composition (or their logical inverse): unity, balance, contrast, motion, pattern, repetition, emphasis.
- Mention the influence (positive or negative) of the Berger or Jiro reading in your proposal and critique.
This project is important for these reasons:
1). To synthesize the skills and knowledge we have learned throughout the quarter.
2). To experience the (often scary!) freedom of creating a work of art from scratch.
3). To see an individual work of art through inspiration to completion, hiccups, and all. Nothing ever happens as planned, so you will be tasked with problem-solving without losing sight of your intended goal.
STUDENT 15
Chosen Idea: Aknowledging the limits of one’s knowledge
marker, colored pencil, crayon, graphite pencil, constuction paper, watercolor paint
Chosen Idea: Aknowledging the limits of one’s knowledge
marker, colored pencil, crayon, graphite pencil, constuction paper, watercolor paint
STUDENT 16
Chosen Spectacle: Nature and the self
marker, colored pencil, crayon, graphite pencil, constuction paper, oil pastels
Chosen Spectacle: Nature and the self
marker, colored pencil, crayon, graphite pencil, constuction paper, oil pastels
STUDENT 17
Chosen Spectacle: You can never go home
marker, colored pencil, crayon, graphite pencil, constuction paper
Chosen Spectacle: You can never go home
marker, colored pencil, crayon, graphite pencil, constuction paper
STUDENT 18
Chosen Spectacle: The terror of perception
marker, colored pencil, crayon, graphite pencil, constuction paper
Chosen Spectacle: The terror of perception
marker, colored pencil, crayon, graphite pencil, constuction paper
Based on our in-class lectures, material introductions, and reading of John Berger’s “Ways of Seeing”, you will be tasked with recreating and a work of art chosen from the list presented in class.
In order to do so, you will need to recreate using all the material types in class (Our current materials included: markers, colored pencils, crayons, graphite pencils). This project should be on a 24” x 36” piece of paper. You do not need to worry about matching the medium of the original work. This project is not about material accuracy, but rather an exercise in pushing our technical and conceptual skills.
This project is important (and important to do first) for three reasons:
1). To help us all become familiar with historical artworks and artists from various periods. As artists, we continually build on our knowledge of the past to confirm or contest what was done before. Use this opportunity to reflect on what you do or don’t appreciate about your selection.
2). We are giving the artwork a “close read .”By recreating each work from scratch, we are investigating, discovering, and applying the techniques that the “masters” use. We can then apply these techniques moving forward.
3). In light of Berger, we can use this exercise to personally investigate the subjective biases that influence our interpretation of a work of art.
STUDENT 19
Refrence Image: Untitled (T41), Kazuo Shiraga
marker, colored pencil, crayon, graphite
Refrence Image: Untitled (T41), Kazuo Shiraga
marker, colored pencil, crayon, graphite
STUDENT 20
Refrence Image: Beer Garden with Ulrike and Celeste, Nicole Eisenman
marker, colored pencil, crayons, graphite pencil
Refrence Image: Beer Garden with Ulrike and Celeste, Nicole Eisenman
marker, colored pencil, crayons, graphite pencil