Biomorphic biotecture
1511&1503 Project Prompt #2
Description
Using friends, yourself, volunteer models, surrounding environments and architecture, you will create a dramatic space that recombines parts of the body and elements of architecture to create a new realistic and believable space.
This will require that you take our explorations into perspective, color, and figure drawing, and create for viewers new structures and points of view by adjusting scale, lighting, and various spatial relationships to realize vast, strange, wonderous spaces that feel like they can be occupied and have a strong sense of place.
Point of view and use of perspective should be strongly considered. Ask yourself, where do you want the viewer placed? What does that mean for my horizon line and vanishing points? How do you want them to enter the drawing? Are they floating 20 feet off the ground or planted firmly on it? You can control how they experience the space you are creating using perspectival tools.
Stipulations
You should use at least three different architectural spaces in these drawings and at least two body/ body parts.
You should do direct observable drawings of these spaces and bodies. That means you are working from your taken photos and direct observation, not images found on the internet. DO SKETCHES! TAKE PHOTOS! You should be in control of the outcome of this image!
Each image student should know where their horizon line is in the image and any relevant vanishing points. Also, value and color recession should be used in the drawing to further develop the illusion of depth.
Students should include one or two colors not including black and white. These colors should be mixed and not fully saturated through the image.
These should be 24 x 36 foot drawings using vine, compressed charcoal, and if you wish materials that create temperature (warm/ cool).
The week of 11/11, 11/14 will be in class work on this project
This drawing will be due 11/18
Grading Rubric:
Content
-ability to create a believable, though not necessarily realistic, space
-creative use of observed elements, lighting, and rules of perspective
Formal Aspects
-composition, focal point, interesting arrangement of positive and negative spaces, movement, variety and rhythm, contrast
-ability to create illusion of depth and volume through use of light/ shadow and perspective
-correct observation of forms
Craft
-quality of mark, carefully layered charcoal to produce a wide range of value and color
-contours and edges are varied, according to lighting situation, and they describe a solid form (no wavy walls if they should be straight )
Artist Examples
Rebecca Horn
Ana Mendieta
Pipilotti Rist
Zaha Hadid
Patricia Piccinini
Stelarc
Capuchin Crypt
Frank Gehry
Lucy McRae