Illustration

6.0 Comparison of 'philosopher' with Christo and Jeanne Claude artwork

6.0 Conceptual artist

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Figure 6.0: Christo and Jeanne Claude (Vimeo, 2016)

Their installation artworks:

Figure 6.1: The Gates (Project for Central Park, New York City)
Collage, 1980
28 x 22" (71 x 56 cm)
Pencil, wax crayon, pastel, fabric, photostat and fabric sample

Figure 6.2: Wrapped Trees, Fondation Beyeler and Berower Park, Riehen, Switzerland, 1997-98
Photo: Wolfgang Volz
© 1998 Christo

Figure 6.3: The Floating Piers, Lake Iseo, Italy, 2014-16
Photo: Wolfgang Volz
© 2016 Christo

Figure 6.4: Wrapped Automobile (Project for Studebaker), 2014

Comparison between the ‘philosopher’ and the installation art done by Christo and Jeanne Claude:

Christo likes to wrap existing things like car and tree with clothes or with other materials. They also allowed interactivity with the audience like the floating tiers allows people to walk on it. ‘Philosopher’ sculpture allows people to interpret the message behind the sculpture itself. It also reminds people every day that everyone is related to each other in terms of being teacher or philosopher and helps each other. The building of sculpture needs a lot of effort, time, energy to build it same as floating tiers built by Christo and Jeanne.

Reference:

Christo, 2016, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, christojeanneclaude.net, Accessed on 10 December 2016, url: http://christojeanneclaude.net/

Artnet, 2016, Christo and Jeanne-Claude,  Artnet Worldwide Cooperation, accessed on 10 December 2016, url: http://www.artnet.com/artists/christo-and-jeanne-claude/

Final task 20th century project

Introduction

The project is about creating artwork based on all the 20th century movements such as, cubism, dadaism, surrealism, postmodernism, conceptualism and etc. The topic is about teenager. So the researcher found out that teenager is someone who has the quality of butterfly but trapped in a obstacles and in period of disorientation. This project is about realizing or discovering of their highest potential which is hidden themselves. The style of this artwork is, cubism, surrealism, dadaism, and postmodernism.

Cubism can be seen in the straight lines of the black thread. Surrealism is the cocoon (thread) and butterflies represented in different concepts. Dadaism can be seen in the reusing of scissor as to represent the butterfly. Postmodernism is the artwork itself which is the installation art.

The thread represents the all the obstacles the teenager is going through. For examples, problems arise from studies, money, parents, friends, unlocking potential and finding identities. The scissors which suppose to be sharp was covered with thread showing that the sharpness or the potential is hidden to be cut through the thread. It also has the shape of a butterfly because butterfly has wings which suppose can fly freely but got stucked inside.

Ideation.

Sketches:

Materials: PVC pipe (2 feet long each side), connecting valves 'T' and 'U', PTFE, contact grip glue, black and red thread, scissors, black spray.

Steps:

Connect all the pipes into a cube form with the connecting valves. Each corner will have one 'T' valve and 'U valve.

 

Figure 1: Connecting the edges to form cube.

Secure the position by PTFE and glue.

 

 

Figure 2: Securing with PTFE. 

Hammer on top of valves to fix the position tightly.

 

 

Figure 3: Hammer to fix the position. 

 

Figure 4: The box/ cube. 

Spray the entire box with black colour spray.

 

Figure 5: Before spraying colour.

 

 

Figure 6: After spraying black.

Tie black thread at one end and pull it to other side and continue do it at different places to form a cocoon like structure.

 

 

Figure 7: Tieing black thread.

 

 

Figure 8: More thread.

 

 

Figure 9: Moving the thread all around the box.

 

 

Figure 10: More thread. 

 

Figure 11: Finished tieing thread.

 

 

Figure 12: Materials for the inner part.

Cover the scissor with red thread to hide the scissors (metaphor for hiding the potential).

 

 

Figure 13: Covering the scissor with thread.

 

Figure 14: Finished 'butterfly'.

Insert the 'butterfly' into the middle of the cocoon. Secure it properly.

 

 

Figure 15: Putting the 'butterfly' inside.

 

 

Figure 16: In progress.

 

Figure 17: Adding red threads to show anger.

 

Figure 18: Finished artwork.

Red colour thread shows the anger, and dangers or struggle the teenager is going through in his life. The black is shows the negativity from the surrounding, troubles, obstacles, sorrow and etc.

For the base to exhibit my artwork, I chose the wooden boards and paint them white. I paint it white because the stage which represent the world is actually has positive property as white always described as pure. So, the teenager once come out from the strangles, the white world will be his or her.

 

 

Figure 19: Spraying white paint.

One tin of white spray does not enough for the whole board, since the wood absorb the white. So I used water based paint to paint the wooden boards to cut the cost.  

 

Figure 20: Applying first layer of white colour.

 

 

Figure 21: Painting.

 

 

Figure 22: Consequent layers.

 

Figure 23: Assembled wooden board as a stage.

 

 

Figure 24: Finished artwork, Uncertain Journey (Menagha, 2016)

Uncertain Journey centers around one installation that dominates the Space. Seemingly growing from center, that act as expressions of human acts. Complex networks of yarn are often interlaced around and between objects, linking their inherent narratives and creating a new visual order. Speaking of the ideas, "Teenagers are like a journey without a destination, even though we don't know where we are heading, we cannot stop. I wanted to emphasis this feeling of a teenager with nowhere to go whilst alluding to a search for a sense of belonging. Its like how teenagers behaved."

The box frame symbolizes a pupa is a transition and a connection between people. The interwoven strands also express complex networks of obstruction that creates stress stage of physical and psychological of a teenagers the red colour scissors representing butterfly in a metaphorical expression as teenagers fly away through on a journey of uncertainty and wonder.

From this project, I learned to unlock her creativity as well as had opportunity to create something new. The same time to deliver message to others.

Storyboarding and diorama project

Storyboarding.

My story:

In a town called 'Hatty town', people live happily and harmony together. The town is called 'hatty' town because people likes to wear hats from morning to night. One day, murder events started to happen. Every night one person is dying at their home. They are stabbed by unknown seriel killer.
Michael (detective)  is instructed by Bond (Sheriff) to investigate the case. Meanwhile, Ben who is a secret spy tried to do his own investigation at night to find out the killer. Ben was suspected by Michael and beaten up one night for acting suspicious. Later that night, Bond was found dead killed by the veteran, Max who had gun. The climax is the red handed arrest of killer when the killer started to follow the spy to kill the main threat to her killing activity. The killer was hanged by the 'hatty' town people. Since that day, the town peace is restored and everyone lived happily ever.

Sketches: characters and storyboards

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diorama for the  story scene:

Sketch:

  

Figure 1: Sketch of diorama set

Materials: Paper, Poster colour, sponge, cotton, box, string, black marker

Process:

Drawing of the house using poster colour to be inserted in diorama set.

 

Figure 2: painting.

 

Figure 3: House.

 

Figure 4: Painting night sky.

  

Figure 5: Painting day.

 

Figure 6: More house.

  

Figure 7: Using a box as the set.

  

Figure 8: decorating the set.

  

Figure 9: Pasting the house.

 

Figure 10: Doing the hanging stage.

  

Figure 11: In progress.

  

Figure 12: Attaching night and day at back of the set.

Figure 13: More decoration.

 

Figure 14: Adding trees and clouds.

 

 

Figure 15: Finished diorama set.

Character designing.

Materials: Paperclay, wire, poster colour 

Process:

 

 

Figure 16: Wire

 

 

Figure 17: Using of wire to make the wireframe for the character

 

 

Figure 18: Finished doing 5 wireframes

 

Figure 19: Attaching paperclay on the wire surface.

Figure 20: Keep reshape the paperclay until the desired character appear.

 

 

Figure 21: Another character in paperclay.

 

 

Figure 22: Detective design.

 

 

Figure 23: Spy designing. 

Leave the paperclay to dry for one hour or put under swirling fan.

 

 

Figure 24: Painting poster colour on the paperclay surface after it hardens.

 

 

Figure 25: More painting.

 

 

Figure 26: Veteran.

 

 

Figure 27: Finished character. (Bond, Ken, Michael, Ben, Max)  

 

Figure 28: Diorama and characters.

The style of this diorama is cubism since it has straight lines, and view from different side, from left, right, front and overlay of houses make it more clear as cubism.

Some of the scene in this story:

 

 

Figure 29: Sheriff asks Michael to investigate the case.

 

 

Figure 30: Spy is looking through the window to find out the killer.

 

 

Figure 31: Encounter of Michael with the spy.

 

 

Figure 32: Ben is knocked out by Michael.

 

 

Figure 33: Sheriff was found dead scene.

 

 

Figure 34: Killer is trying to attack the spy from behind with a knife.

 

 

Figure 35: Knock out of killer by Michael. 

 

Figure 36: Hanging the killer.

 

 

Figure 37: Ken is dead.

From this activity, I had fun and also learn about storyboarding and diorama as it can be used to do stop motion animation which I have not learn yet. I also learned that paperclay is easy to mold but once harden it can break easily unlike plasticine. Plasticine wont break when it falls down but it is heavy on a wireframe and it falls of easily and melt easily. I also learned to draw characters and drawing it from different views, left, right, front eases my work when I use the characters in storyboarding as a reference.