Art 20 Assignment #6 Art Synectics - A Sculptural Activity
Assignment Choice 1 - Hidden Structure
Concept: Making structures with concealed elements
Procedure:
1. Design and make the three dimensional structure that 'open up' to reveal an interior structure.
Assignment Choice 2 - Street Myth
Concept: Creating a bas-relief or bleau of a building facade
Procedure:
1. using clay or paper mache construct a bas-relief depicting the front of a building for example the front of an old hotel, grocery store, hamburger stand, drugstore, pool hall, log house etc..
2. Add the required details, props, figures and then paint with acrylic
Assignment Choice 3 - Anthropomorphic/Personification
Concept: Imbuing nonhuman things with human qualities
Procedure:
1. Sketch an idea based on your own idea or:
Birds on a coffee break Elephants as jockeys
Dinosaurs as trades people Pencils jogging
Toads as police add to list...
2. Create a sculpture of that form in clay, plaster, wire, wood. or paper mache. Paint with the appropriate colors.
Concept: Making structures with concealed elements
Procedure:
1. Design and make the three dimensional structure that 'open up' to reveal an interior structure.
Assignment Choice 2 - Street Myth
Concept: Creating a bas-relief or bleau of a building facade
Procedure:
1. using clay or paper mache construct a bas-relief depicting the front of a building for example the front of an old hotel, grocery store, hamburger stand, drugstore, pool hall, log house etc..
2. Add the required details, props, figures and then paint with acrylic
Assignment Choice 3 - Anthropomorphic/Personification
Concept: Imbuing nonhuman things with human qualities
Procedure:
1. Sketch an idea based on your own idea or:
Birds on a coffee break Elephants as jockeys
Dinosaurs as trades people Pencils jogging
Toads as police add to list...
2. Create a sculpture of that form in clay, plaster, wire, wood. or paper mache. Paint with the appropriate colors.