Foundations of Design : REPRESENTATION, SEM1, 2017 M2 JOURNAL - FLATNESS vs PROJECTION Christian Wong
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WEEK 3 READING: LEGER, LE CORBUSIER, AND PURISM. ARTFORUM. KRAUSS ROSALIND, 1972 Question 1: What is Pictorial Space according to Le Corbusier? (Maximum 100 words) Le Corbusier’s take on pictorial space is something that “cannot be entered or circulated through,” and therefore “eternanlly resigned to frontality”. My take on this, is that pictorial space is flat because of the fact that you cant move inside the space. You are unable to see how close an object is to another as you cannot rotate through the space. Instead through a pictorial space we can see sense of frontality and have a sense of the distance of an object, by looking at the way the objects interfere with each other.
Question 2: The Flatness of Le Corbusier’s painting’s are attributable to two properties. What are they? And what are these pitted against?(Maximum 100 words) Utilising element of colour and the principle of pattern, Le Corbusier creates the illusion of flatness, emphasised by constrasting it against tone. For colour Le Corbusier has used bold (non graduating) colours in conjunction with a cluttered composition to achieve an almost abstract effect. For example in “Nature Morte”, 1925, the clutered, singular toned objects are ovelapped (a technique to create depth), yet do not have that sense of form. Pattern is used in previous Le Corbusier works to distinguish between the objects. The lack of pattern in “Nature Morte”, 1925 ensures an illusiion flatness.
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MARIO’S WORLD
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1ST MARIO’S WORLD
First Drawing of the Mario Isometric
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COMBINED MARIO’S WORLD
Final pen scan
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WEEK 4 READING: TITLE OF READING Complete your reading before attempting these questions:
Question 1: Explain the difference between Pictoral (in this case perspectival) space and Projection? (Maximum 100 words) In the casec of perspective, it is defined by Lissitzky to, “limits space; it has made it finite, closed”. The reason for this is that the vanishing point is seen. For a projection the the vanishing point is instead infinite, it cannot be seen. The benefits of a projection is idea to see the abstract and also to be able to measure it a precise manner (pg 18,19).
Question 2: Where did Axonometric projection first arise, and why? (Maximum 100 words) The earlierest systematic axonometric drawing arose in a military setting to chart projectile trajectories. ( pg 20) It was later practiced in engineering schools in the 19th and 20th centuries. From a orthagonal perspective these drawigns were easy to draw and understand in terms of measurment. It concerns itself more with the “construction and consistency of measurment”.
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ILLUSTRATED MARIO’S NEW WORLD
Final illustrated world.
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APPENDIX
First drawing setup.
Setup of the two drawings overlayed with a peice of A3 tracing paper.
The second picture drawn on a sperate A4 piece of tracing paper
Final pen drawing with an overlayed A3 peice of tracing paper for further additions.
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