color and light (franny)

zine musings about this project:

five best pieces (franny)

sculpture: noguchi playgrounds (franny choi)

Isamu Noguchi started designing playgrounds early in his career, approaching this space as a potential for building a sculptural landscape. This one, erected in Atlanta (whatwhat) in 1976, is the only full playground that ever materialized. It's beautiful and specifically functional-- I think those orange traingles are swingsets. I might add that the play ground has started to rust and has acquired some graffiti over the past 30 years, but I think the aging process is pretty cool.

Here's a sweet Noguchi slide in Japan:

Baroque (franny choi)

St. Peter in Prison
Rembrandt
1631

his use of light is amazing.

painting between 1550-1700 (franny)

Holy Family
Rembrandt
1640

15th-17th Century Paintings (franny choi)

Madonna and Child, Jean Fouquet (France)
1452-1455


St. Andrew, Jusepe de Ribera (Spain)
1630-1632

franny choi: Donatello

Donatello is widely considered to be the greatest sculptor of the early Renaissance. One of the formal characteristics of his work was rilievo schiacciato, or flattened relief, in which he applies the rules of perspective so that each figure emerges clearly and logically even though the scene is modeled at a shallow depth.



In the above piece, The Feast of Herod (a relief on the baptismal font in the Baptistry of Siena), Donatello employs overlapping and relative size, as you can see in the arches and the people in the background. He also uses linear perspective in sculpting the two rows of arches.

playing catch-up with franny choi!

trying to catch up on blog entries. sorry i'm so behind on the times....

Contemporary Artist: Andrea Zittel



Andrea Zittel is an American installation artist whose works are often a blend of functionality, environmentalism, and social/political statement. Her Living Units, above, attempts to reduce an entire living space into a single, compact unit (the project came about while Zittel was living in her 200 sq ft Brooklyn apartment). Other projects explore and experiment with efficiency, isolation, and personal freedom.



Her latest project, the smockshop, is a collective that generates income for artists whose work is either non-commercial or not yet self-sustaining. Artists sew their own adaptations of a simple dress designed by Zittel.


Gestalt Principles



In the above figure, the relationship between figure and ground change as the viewer perceives either two letter 'E's or two arrows.