Media - Material

•How does media impact design?•Limitations?•Characteristics?

•What makes a “good” design?

•Visual inspiration and purposes of design?

Representational Art

Michelangelo

Babe Ruth 1927

Sea Gull

1928

Alexander Calder

Untitled (Pelican)

1925

Men Persuading Elephant

1931

Elephant

1927http://www.calder.org/work/by-category/wire-sculpture

Natalie Miebach

http://www.nathaliemiebach.com/musical.html

Conceptual sculpture's primary emphasis is the communication of the

idea behind the work.  In conceptual art the "concept is the most important

aspect of the work...The idea becomes the machine that makes the art..."- Sol LeWitt "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art",

Artforum, summer, 1967

Lee Bontecou

Abstract Art

http://www.moma.org/explore/multimedia/videos/116/656

Abstract sculpture uses nature not as subject matter to be represented but as a source of formal ideas. For sculptors who work in this way, the forms that

are observed in nature serve as a starting point for a kind of creative

play, the end products of which may bear little or no resemblance to

their original source.

Emery Blagdon Visionary Art!

Philadelphia Wireman

•Line Project—experiment with the use of line to define form: create a DRAWING and then use wire or other linear materials to create a sculpture in the round- representational, abstract, or non-objective... and expressive.

Linear Media

•Wire, Reed, String, Yarn, ?

•Advantages?

•Limitations?Stove Pipe wire is iron - rusts.Bailing Wire similar (soft iron)Gauges of wire.