Foundations of Design : REPRESENTATION, SEM 2, 2017 M2 JOURNAL - FLATNESS vs PROJECTION YUFEI SHAN
896738 Anneke Prins, Studio 6
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WEEK 3 READING: LE CORBUSIER AND PURISM
Question 1: What is Pictorial Space according to Le Corbusier? According to Le Corbusier, Pictoral space is that which “cannot be entered or circulated through; it is irremediably space viewed from a distance” and it is “enternally resigned to frontality”. Pictoral space is only a flat plane view which does not include a sense of depth.
Question 2: The Flatness of Le Corbusier’s painting’s are attributable to two properties. What are they? And what are these pitted against? The Flatness of Le Corbusier’s painting are attributable to colour and texture. Corbusier against the use of black colour to define a sense of shadow, because black and white only create an extremly strong contrast and there is no sense of depth. He shared the concept of frontalization which “ made the surface of the painting a concentration of grounds against which texture, as the memory image of depth, appeared to lie at a certain remove”.
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MARIO’S WORLD
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1ST MARIO’S WORLD
Projection in pencil of two flat planes.
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COMBINED MARIO’S WORLD
More details were added on the original outline and the rest of world was created.
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WEEK 4 READING: AXONOMETRIC PROJECTION
Question 1: Explain the difference between Pictoral space and Projection? (Maximum 100 words)
The difference between Pictoral space and Projection are: Pictoral space is meant to be frontality, but Projection is to be viewed from an angle with 3D form. “Perspective records what already exists and axonometric constructs that which does not yet exist“ It means that projection shows a sense of depth and a free space which perspective cannot have.
Question 2: Where did Axonometric projection first arise, and why? Axonometric projection was firstly been used by a military reason- “ the chart three- dimensional trajectories of artillery projectiles”. It was arised because it was precise and showed measurements of the object with demensions.
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ILLUSTRATED MARIO’S NEW WORLD
By using illustrator； characters, colour, gradient and shadows were added to the world.
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APPENDIX
Axonometric drawing stage: page set up at 45 degree angle.
Initial sketching of my mario world. drawing processes of the Mario sulpture by illustrator.
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