http://cgar2.umwblogs.org Just another UMW Blogs.org weblog Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:44:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://cgar2.umwblogs.org/2008/03/31/project-2/ Please post your statement of intent. Remember to follow the handout as an example. http://cgar2.umwblogs.org/2008/03/30/statement-of-intent-for-2nd-piece/ http://cgar2.umwblogs.org/2008/03/16/onimals/ How do I get the picture of my sculpture on here? As far as I can tell wordpress only lets you take images that are like online and have simple address thing... I can't figure it out. Anyone know how to do it? -Jesse http://cgar2.umwblogs.org/2008/03/12/first-project/ Today in the dutch city of Nijmegen I visited Museum Het Valkhof and had the pleasure of delighting in the intersection of sculpture, video art, photography, glass-blowing, animal breeding, digital art, painting and the chicken in Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen's exhibition The Cosmopolitan Chicken. The project is a living (literally--cluck, cluck) metaphor for ... http://cgar2.umwblogs.org/2008/03/01/which-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-art/ Sorry I forgot I'd made an edit, here's what the piece looks like now: http://cgar2.umwblogs.org/2008/02/27/flamingo-part-2/ Here is my piece (click for bigger image): http://cgar2.umwblogs.org/2008/02/27/flamingo/ here is an article too http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2007/06/11/benning-dollhouse.html http://cgar2.umwblogs.org/2008/02/25/picture-for-jesseand-others/ Take a look at the works of Sol Lewitt, Anish Kapoor, Rachel Whiteread, Louise Nevelson, Jessica Stockholder, and Cece Cole for direction.  These artists approach architecture and geometry in very interesting ways.  Make a sculpture that combines architecture and geometry.  You will incorporate a drawing into your piece. http://cgar2.umwblogs.org/2008/02/20/2nd-assignment-architecture-and-geometry/ Please write a paragraph about your piece.  Begin with a formal description: (height, width, depth) (materials used, not every  single material) (is it well-crafted? if not, how does the method of construction reinforce your sculpture?) (metaphors or layered meanings) Watch your spelling and sentence structure. http://cgar2.umwblogs.org/2008/02/18/statement-of-intent/