anish kapoop and william pye

This is a sculpture made by William Pye. his inspiration for this piece came from an adjustable stove pipe joint. he talks about the simplicity of the pipe joint and his fascination of how the circular parts work in harmony.  his sculpture was made in 3 parts, covered in a think layer of stainless steel.motors in the sculpture created a cycle of frozen and moving relationships. the mirrored surface disguises the rotating circles. i looked into this piece of art as i to want to experiment with mirrors/mirrored surfaces. at the start of this project i looked into animation, when the sculpture moves, you could say that is a type of animation in its self. i thought this piece was an interesting one.

this video is about anish kapoors work and how it is made. it shows you some of the makets he makes and his sketches that he does on the walls of his studio. some  of the models for his work are made out of polystyrene and imitate the same idea of using stone. this one does not feature his mirror sculptures.

talks about his mirrored piece that is placed in South Downs. The piece is called cea curve. the man talks about the piece being quite disorientating, is it a new form of landscape painting? the sheer size, simplicity and beauty of it. how is manipulates the image. its a constant present.Another piece called sky mirror, people are fascinated by the change of the sculpture. the sky changes and so does the sculpture. could be seen as animation? how the sculpture merges with the landscape, yet is a piece in its own right.

http://www.williampye.com/work/vannpaviljong

Sculpture porject
This project is linked with the metamorphosis. i started off looking at robert breer as he did animation and flip books.website about breer that i found useful
so i started thinking about flip books, its stock motion that changes something or makies it seem like its moving, this could be linked to metamorphosis, which is change.

this is a robert beer peice. its sort of like a a manual flip book on the wall. the veiwer just glides their fingers across to see the animation.

so i wanted to do something like a flip book. i did some research in to them. i found someone who instead of used paper, did their drawings on balloons, lined them up and then poped them.

balloon flip book

game concept art

i made my zoetrope! the pictures i designed where inspired by the painting of actaeons death by titian. in this painting dianna the god turns actaeon into a stag , he then gets killed by his own hound dogs. for my zoetrope, i made six cells which i then repeated. i drew a human head morphing into a stags head. i was quite pleased with my draws and the fact my zoetrope works. it was quite confussing to make though.

zoetrope

such a confusing video :(

evaluation of titian work.
so far i am pleased with the work i have done for the titian project.

 

this is my sort of sculpture idea for the titian work. it was based on the painting of  Diana and Callisto. i first started thinking about how it was unjust what happened to Callisto. and how women over the ages have been treated as a 2nd class citizen.

the hands that dangle down represent Jupiter or men in general. it is about them pointing the blame at the women and sort of thinking less of them.

i could of coloured the hands in to make them stand out more. at one point i was debating about using gloves molded into the shape using plaster. but then decided against this an it would of been too much weight for the small piece of wire to support. next time i could try make one to cater for plaster hands, as it would give it a more 3d/real affect.

this is the next part of my sculpture. the bird trapped in the cage is to symbolise Callisto and the unjust that she faces in the poem. i chose a dove to symbolise her purity and innocence as she was tricked. for the cage idea i sort of took my inspiration from Mark Wallinger. his work for the titian painting was sort of don't get caught looking. i like the work her did with Diana in the bath tub. Any way for this piece you have to look in to see what it is.

this is the base of my sculpture , which also acts as the weight. on this i have scribbled words that are linked to my idea of women and i guess the end result of rape. on there is written: baby, 2nd class, result, rape unjust, women and suppressed. over this slab of wood i took a picture of a fetus. showing the baby that Callisto carries.

overall my sculpture was to show the stages of the painting and the end result. in the picture above you can see the the bird cage abit off level. this would be something to improve on for next time. but all in all i am quite happy with my work.