Visual Arts, Assignment Brief Foundation Diploma in Art and Design (QCF) UNIT NO & NAME
Unit 1: Art and design research methods Unit 2: Art and design ideas development Unit 3: Art and design materials and methods Unit 4: Art and design evaluation and reflection
TITLE
PLANAR CONSTRUCTIONS 2D INTO 3D
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
Wednesday 28 September 2016
FINAL ASSESSMENT
Week beginning 31 October 2016
ASSESSORS
Martin Carrolchick… et al
PLANAR CONSTRUCTIONS 2D INTO 3D
Alexander Rodchenko (1891 – 1956), Hanging Spatial Construction no9 (Circle in a Circle); 1920 - 21
From 1918 through 1921, Rodchenko made three series of Spatial Constructions, each comprised of six works. Regrettably, most of them have long been known only through photographs made at the time and through Rodchenko's own sketches on a page of his notebook. The sole surviving work is Spatial Construction no. 12 of about 1920.
Visual Arts, Assignment Brief Foundation Diploma in Art and Design (QCF)
In taking up sculpture, Rodchenko quite literally extended his two-dimensional experiments into three dimensions. His first series of constructions, which he also called "white sculptures," replaced the solid mass and continuous surface of traditional sculpture with an interlocking structure of flat elements, painted white.
The surviving work belongs to the second series, in which Rodchenko imposed a simple logic upon his method of construction. Made of light plywood, each work was restricted to a single geometric shape, cut in concentric bands of regular width and painted silver to reflect the light. When flat, each sculpture was a unitary form: an oval, a circle, a triangle, a square, a hexagon, and an octagon. Suspended from the ceiling instead of placed on a traditional pedestal, the sculpture fanned out into space, articulating a complex volume whose shadow was still more complex and variable.
AIM Your aim is to make a cohesive collection of sculptural/architectural forms
OBJECTIVES You will need to…
Explore perpendicular space through cutting and folding paper/card into a series of planes set at right angles
Develop and refine paper maquettes (models) through the addition of planes set at 45 degrees and curved planes applying an understanding of the 'Golden Section'.
Transform the paper maquettes through paper clay
Scale-up and develop the paper maquettes through 2mm thick grey board
Transform the paper maquettes through fabric
Demonstrate ongoing reflection and evaluation
Complete related research tasks related to art movements (Cubism, Constructivism, De Stijl). Key artists (V Tatlin, A Rodchenko, L Popova, K Kobro). Key Elements: Line, Edge, Plane, Proprtion, Materials & Techniques
RELATED DISCIPLINES This project is linked to a wide range of disciplines including architecture, interior design, packaging, sculpture, ceramics, constructed textiles and fashion
WORKSHOP INDUCTIONS ‘Planar Constructions’ assignment provides students with inductions to Ceramics and Textiles Workshops
KEY TERMS ‘Point’, ‘Plane’, ‘Perpendicular’, ‘Line’, ‘Edge’, ‘Maquette’, ‘Proportion’, ‘Component’, ‘Geometric’, ‘Polyhedra’, ‘Folding’, ‘Pleating’
Visual Arts, Assignment Brief Foundation Diploma in Art and Design (QCF) Recommended Research
EXHIBITION
ART MOVEMENT
Rodchenko & Popova; Defining Constructivism Tate Modern, London 2009
Constructivism 1915 to late 1930s http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/constructivism
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/rodchenko-popova
EXHIBITION
DOCUMENTARY
Picasso Guitars 1912 - 14 Museum of Modern Art, 2011
Independent Lens: Between the Folds (2008) Director: Vanessa Gould
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1101
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/between-the-folds/film.html
THEORY
ARTIST
The Golden Ratio
Katarzyna Kobra (1898 – 1951)
http://www.goldennumber.net/category/design/
http://kobro.art.pl/Animacje/index.html
Visual Arts, Assignment Brief Foundation Diploma in Art and Design (QCF)
EXHIBITION
ART MOVEMENT
Inventing Abstraction 1910 – 1925… Museum of Modern Art, 2013
Suprematism 1913/5 to late 1920s http://www.moma.org/collection_ge/theme.php?theme_id=10202
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2012/inventingabstraction/
THEORY
APPLICATION
Perspective
Google Sketch-UP
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/earlyrenaissance1/beginners-renaissance-florence/a/early-applications-of-linear-perspective
http://www.sketchup.com/
ARTIST
WEBSITE
Nawal Gebreel
Pleast Farm
http://gebreel.com/index.html
http://www.pleatfarm.com/
Visual Arts, Assignment Brief Foundation Diploma in Art and Design (QCF)
ARTIST
ARTIST
Issey Miyake
Susan Robey
http://www.isseymiyake.com/en/brands/132_5.html
http://susanrobeyceramics.com/home.html
Work to be submitted for assessment A series of paper and card maquettes (models) Two sculptural studies in paper clay developed from paper and card maquettes Two sculptural studies in grey-board that show refinement of paper and card maquettes Two sculptural studies in felt (textile) developed from paper and card maquettes Visual documentation (Photos and drawings) of the development of your maquettes Personal reflection and evaluation on the development of all your maquettes Completed Research tasks and Quizes (Activate Online)