Wednesday, March 9, 2011

SCULPTED DREAMS - Ideas

This unit is about creating a Surrealist sculpture by creating hybrid  creatures.
Animal/ human
machine / human
Object / human

Trangensis
Hybrids

Ideas so far:

Arm chair
Foot stool
hand cuffs
table legs
nail polish
finger nail
Eye Glasses
Eye ball
Nose ring
3D pic of family in a camera lense

Calder Research Assignment

1. World artist relationship
What events or aspect of Calder’s world and life impacted on him as an artist? Explain

2. Artist Artwork Relationship
What art forms or types of art did Calder produce throughout his life and career? (starting with childhood)

3. Artwork- audience relationship
What impact did Calder’s art have on the direction of modern at – sculpture in particular?

*Include images of his artworks to illustrate your response
*submitted in form- word , PowerPoint.

okay, so here are some links:

ALEXANDER CALDER
http://www.calder.org/
http://rogallery.com/Calder_Alexander/calder-biography.htm
http://www.dropbears.com/a/art/biography/Alexander_Calder.html
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/show-full/bio/?artist_name=Alexander%20Calder
SURREALISM
http://www.surrealism.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism
http://www.surrealist.com/

Basically another blog for us to use as social and work: hope you all like it :)