Students need to constantly be looking and researching three dimensional design history throughout the semester.
Each entry needs to complete the following:
Each entry needs to complete the following:
1. 1.You need to complete 3 weekly. Follow calendar. By the end of the term you will have a minimum of 40 entries. Above this, quality and quantity will give you extra credit. Your selections may be made from the history of sculpture and three-dimensional design, including prehistory to just yesterday
2. 2. Place the image on the page, color or black and white
3. 3. Type the URL under the details of the painting for bibliographic sourcing
4. 4. Name of artist, title (always in italics), year created, media, dimensions
5. 5. Brief information of artist including full name, nationality, b. – d., where they studied, type of sculptural style/ 3D form they are involved in. This can easily be found on the web through your search
6. 6. First question to answer = why did this 3-D work draw your attention to it ? Try to be as depth full and specific as possible.
7. 7. Second question that needs to be answered is how you believe this work relates to our class, or the assignment at hand Note: “because it is three dimensional” obviously, does not cut it!
8. 8. Stick your entry into your sketchbook with tape / glue – don’t let your valuable work become scattered, fly around and get lost!
Here's your first entry...
SA 132 Structuring Human Space
SPRING 2020
#1/40
Ernesto Neto, Vertical Bed, polyester (stocking like material), filled with polyester beads
Ernesto Saboia de Albuquerque Neto is a contemporary visual artist
Born: 1964 , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
His work is in private collections, museums and galleries throughout the world
Style: Contemporary
URL: https://www.memecenter.com/fun/52962/ernesto-netos-upright-bed
1. 1. I believe what drew me to this sculpture first was how soft it looks, its overall color and how it relates to the human form. It’s called Vertical Bedand the concept of it seems so humorous to me. He calls this work, and others like it, “Celula Nave” that translates in English to: It Happens in the Body of Time, where Truth Dances.
This seems so poetic to me, both visually and conceptually. The sculpture is cozy and envelops the human form, thus making the human a part of the sculpture. I can imagine, if an individual was not there, the physical structure that we see here would certainly be lost and the soft sculpture would take on a new form. In many ways this “bed” is certainly transformative. It would take on multiple forms depending how the space interacts with the sculptural form as well as how humans might play with it. In many ways the sculpture imitates life, it is transformative, malleable, playful and begs me to engage with it! It transforms me from a viewer of an artwork to truly a participant!
2. 2. I think this is a perfect example from the contemporary world and is certainly relative to our class. Our class, SA 132, Structuring Human Spacename sums up the central theme of Neto’s sculpture! It certainly brings and uses a human being, our anatomy and space to the fore! I also think Vertical Bedis incredibly relative to the concepts that are presented in this course because Neto experiments with materials, the sculpture is incredibly humorous – as some think that all sculpture must be serious! He really is thinking out of the box and inventing new sculptural forms! It is also a piece of installation art, as it “installs” the figure within it. NETO often experiments with scented spices to involve the viewer/participant even more!! I should think about this more as an additional sensory experience for my viewers/participants in my own work.