Week Fourteen

This week I finished the sculpture I was working on. I was looking at how colour can be used as part of an illusion. I combined the sculptures I have been making up till now to create this piece. The colour helps to create the illusion of a unified form rather than individual sculptures. The viewer’s eye now follows the blocks of colour rather than the individual pieces.However as seen from the photos above the sculpture can also be divided up and work as individual pieces. I think it is a very interesting idea to have a sculpture that can be rearranged and added to or minimised rather than having an unchanging form. The viewer’s eye now follows the blocks of colour rather than the individual pieces. I also made some prints this week. They are simply based on what the boxes would look like flattened out. I used a combination of the primary colours and complimentary colours to create these prints. 

Glenys Barton

I have been researching the early work of Glenys Barton in relation to my project “To Sense My Space”. Barton's work is very geometric and has a strong emphasis on line and colour. She uses the basic geometric shapes and designs to create these very precise and mathematical sculptures. 

As can be seen from the photo above the designs are not arbitrary decoration but rather well thought out and carefully planned. We can see that when arranged in certain ways the designs join up to create new patterns. 

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The composition of this sculpture is very interesting. While the individual pieces are very precise and mathematical the artist has chosen to arrange the sculpture in a less structured fashion. This contrast between precision and disorder is very interesting.

Week Thirteen

I continued my investigation of colour. I finished glazing my ceramic pieces and I continued to develop my other sculptures in relation to colour also. I painted my ceramic pieces in a more precise and designed manner than my other ceramic pieces. In these ceramic pieces I am creating the illusion of space through colour. No longer are the boxes within the structure defined by material but rather they are now defined by colour. In my other sculptures I was again using colour to create the illusion of a box. I used various combinations of the primary colours and their complimentary colours to create the illusion. I also used colour to highlight negative space. In the sculptures that I had cut areas out I filled those negative space with blocks of colour.