PLANE - It is a slice
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Plane divides and defines volume
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Think about a PLANE as "slicing" space. It divides and shapes space.
Antoine Pevsner
Naum Gabo
Between 1850 and 1900 scientists and industrialists developed methods of mass producing steel, glass aluminum and plastic. These materials could be rolled and extruded cheaply into sheets and bars ......into planar and linear forms. They offered the designer not just new materials, but a new vocabulary of form. Design construction no longer needed to be primarily volumetric, but could be explore plane and line as well.
One of the challenges of working with plane and space is to coordinate physical stability with perceptual dynamism.
The three point rule;
A stable structure results when any three planes meet so that each plane interacts with both of the other planes. The closer their meeting is to 90 degrees, the greater the stability.
Graphic Shapes.
Elongating and curving a cut out of an animal (as seen in Joe Fafard work) can add movement and rhythm to an image. The form extends, adapts and sharpens those meanings elicited by symbolic shapes.
Abstract, nonrepresentational Shapes
Can also carry symbolic associations. Without portraying a particular plant or animal, a curvilinear plane can, nevertheless, conveys more general qualities, such as flow or energy that characterize life.
3D Challenge - Subject Green Pepper
Materials
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Mat-board (one side black the other white)
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X-ACTO Knife
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Green Pepper (your subject)
Observe your subject from all angles, including the inside. Look for elements that could be simplified down to interesting shapes/planes - Draw.
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Look for elements that could be repeated to create emphasis (draw the eye)
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Think about symmetry, balance (symmetric or asymmetric), tension, proportion, flow.
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Slotting will be your method of attachment - no glue. I will demo this process in class.
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Extension......
Architectural Planes
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From the outside architectural forms are perceived as solid masses and on the interior as volumes.
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Walls, ceilings, roofs etc. can all be regarded as planes that close off the shape of the space.
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Transitions - windows, doors are physical apertures that allow transitions between closed interior and open exterior spaces by creating perforations or holes though the enclosed planes.
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Concentration ideas,
Focus on the contrast of closed (interior) and open (exterior) space........
Transitions between these spaces........
How the interior of a space can in inform the exterior (or how exterior can inform the interior) ........