PAINT MADE FLESH

Jenny Saville, Hyphen, 1999.

If anyone is taking Figure Drawing in the Fall, I would strongly suggest seeing this exhibition at the Frist in Nashville, if you haven't already.

PAINT MADE FLESH

It will be up until May 10.

Spring Break Assignment: LEARNING TO LOVE YOU MORE

Yoko Ono, Grapefruit, First Edition, 1964.

Another area of activity in "Three Dimenional Design" or "Sculpture" can possibly fall under the categories of "Performance", "Time Based", "New Media", "Conceptual Art" or "Collaborative Practices".

Please check out the website called:

LEARNING TO LOVE YOU MORE

Choose one of the Assignments and complete it.

Post the required report on your blog by March 16.

Completing assignments or instructions "as art" can be traced back to John Cage, Fluxus and in particular Yoko Ono and her beautiful book called Grapefruit.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Patricia Piccinini

Here's her website.

Neck Adornments

The following five posts are dedicated to "neck adornments".
What does each one say about the culture and context from
which it springs?

Possibilities in "Platonic Solids"

Polyhedra Notes from Simply Different...

da Vinci's Polyhedra

The Platatonic Solids: Why Only Five?

UFOArt

Ricardo Morin

Metratron Cube

Dice of the Gods

Structural Configurations

"Only one linear shape, the triangle, resists deformation against force. All other shapes will distort unless they are braced by triangles."-- from Principles of Three-Dimensional Design: Objects, Space , and Meaning, Stephen Luecking, 2002.

Wooden Dowels

Your dowels must be 1/8" thick. Try Hobby Lobby, try Michaels, try Home Depot, try Loews, Walmart...many places have things like this.

Designing and Constructing a Tower

I Hear A Voice: The Art of Leslie Dill
at the Hunter Museum of American Art
January 17-April 19 at The Hunter Museum, in conjunction with George Adams Gallery in New York, has organized an exciting exhibition of artist Lesley Dill's work that will focus on her most recent large-scale theatrical work.
Click here to learn more.
Events: Saturday, Jan. 17, Artist Talk: Lesley Dill, 6 p.m. Join us to hear Lesley Dill discuss her work. Talk is free to Hunter members and college students, faculty and staff.
General admission: $8. Afterward, purchase a ticket for a post-talk event (below). An Evening with the Artist, 7:30 p.m. Enjoy wine, beer and hors d'oeuvres, meet the artist and have your exhibition catalog signed. (Catalogs available for purchase in the Hunter Museum Store.) Tickets: $15 per person. Call 423.267.0968 or click here to reserve online.

Foam Core Board

For the first project we will use foam core board. 

The Bas-Relief Project

golden mean

tatami

Our first project: The Bas-Relief will be based on the above formats. 

Welcome to 3-D Design

This is the blog for John Tallman's 3-D Design class, spring 2009.

During the semester we will have lots of content here.

Links to student's own blogs will be on the right.

Yeah!