Module 02 journal

Foundations of Design : REPRESENTATION, SEM1, 2017 M2 JOURNAL - FLATNESS vs PROJECTION Haoyu Chen

ID: 981016 Anneke Prins - Studio 1

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WEEK 3 READING: TITLE OF READING

Question 1: What is Pictorial Space according to Le Corbusier? (Maximum 100 words) Pictorial space is a 3 dimensional space created on a 2 dimensional art work which reduces the feeling of distance and depth through the constellation of objects wedge together in that insistent continuity of edges. The viewers cannot tell it is a three dimensional space because it gives people an illusion of flatness different from the real world.

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) The two properties are: firstly, Le Corbusier refused to use black in his paintings, so that the extreme contrast between figure and ground served to pry apart the sur­face of the picture. Secondly, these textural integers that appear against the ground of contour defines the object to which they belong.

They are pitted against the narrow but calibrated distance between the shapes.

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MARIO’S WORLD

Left: This elevation is used as the back of the Mario World projection.

Right: This elevation is used as the front of the Mario World projection.

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1ST MARIO’S WORLD

This pencil work shows the uncombined projection based on the elevation of the back

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COMBINED MARIO’S WORLD

Finalised projection using fine liner, which combined the two elevations and the world hidden from the elevations. 0.1 and 0.4 fine liners were used for this section.

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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) Pictorial space locates the viewer in a fixed place, but Projection locates the viewer in a more oblique and decentered position. The image coalesces only when turning away from the painting. Projection allows viewers to see what is hidden in the construction of the picture. The contingency of the act of view­ing, and the collaboration of the subject’s desire is underlined, which functions to make visible the limits of Pictorial space and its arbitrariness.

Question 2: Where did Axonometric projection first arise, and why? (Maximum 100 words) The earliest Axonometric projection arose in a military context, which was originally used to chart the three-dimensional trajectories of artillery projectiles.

This is because Axonometric projection solved the questions of measurability, prediction, and verifiability.

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ILLUSTRATED MARIO’S NEW WORLD

This is the finalised Mario World using illustrator, with colour and gradients.

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APPENDIX

The materials used: T-square, set square, A3 tracing paper, masking tape, pencils and fine liners.

The combination of the two mario worlds using pencils.

The first Mario world projection created using tracing paper and pencils.

The fine liner version of the finalised Mario world on A3 tracing paper.

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