Harry Bertoia

1915 – 1978  Italian born  silver pins

 which is still being produced today

 sculpture

The Diamond Chair

Harry Bertoia

1952

Moulded mesh

chromium-plated

steel wire

Portrait of Miro

By Alexander Calder

1931

Bent wire sculpture

Alexander Calder

1898 – 1976 American

 between the two places for many years; settled in

 Connecticut

 Grand Rapids, Michigan 1969

  Definition of Art:  

 Definition of Design:

A creative process intended

     for a specific purpose— generally something

     functional

A creative process subject to aesthetic criteria—generally something non-functional

  There is no clear distinction between art and design:  Designs are subjected to aesthetic

    criteria and art can serve a function  

Principles of Design:

Proportion

Rhythm

Balance

Tools/concepts for organizing a composition—making use of the elements of design

  :  Relationship between components in a design concerning their relative size or importance 

:  Recurring movement within a design, generally forming a regular or irregular pattern 

:  Sense of equilibrium; the distribution of elements in a design so as to create stability  

Elements of Design:

Checklist of criteria that determines the appearance and content of a design

Space  Gradation  Form

Scale  Repetition  Anomaly

Structure  Concentration  Contrast

Similarity  Radiation  Texture

Anomaly

Andy Warhol

Self-Portrait

1986

Aztec Josephine Baker     

     by Alexander Calder     

     1929     

      53” tall, wire     

Mass:

 A body of coherent matter, often of considerable

        size; a considerable assemblage.

Example:  The pyramids.  The overwhelming impression is one of substance (literally and figuratively), permanence,

and stability.  There is a profound sense of form and order

expressed with this mass, derived entirely from

mathematical and solar phenomena.

Mass:    In scientific equations

 mass = weight

  In a composition, the closer an object is to the bottom, the

  heavier it seems.  An object in the upper part of a

  composition seems lighter.

  Even words and their meanings can have “weight”—or   significance—based on their visual impact: style, position,   size, color and definition.

  Figures that are massive convey something different than   those which are not massive.

  In architecture, the concept of mass (or even a lack of   mass) can convey different meanings.

Three Primary Pyramids:

King Khufu

Largest and oldest

Father of Khafre

King Khafre

Second largest and built next after Khufu’s pyramid

Has remains of limestone cap on top

Includes Sphinx as guardian figure

Father of Menkaure

King Menkaure

Smallest of the three

Built the last of the three

Vocabulary:

  the process by which materials

      are added to in order to create sculpture or other

      forms.

     Example:  The pyramids (although the individual

     blocks are cut from stone, the pyramids are built by

     stacking millions of blocks.  

the process by which

     materials are taken away in order to create

     sculpture or other forms.

   Example:  The Sphinx.  It is carved from a natural

     outcropping of sandstone.

Pyramid of King Khufu: 

Dates:  c. 2550 – 2475 BC

Blocks of stone:  over 2,300,000

Base:  13 square acres or 7 city blocks

Length of each side:  originally 754 feet, but now 745 feet due to the loss of the outer casing stones

Average weight of individual blocks:  2.5 tons, but large blocks used for the ceiling of the King’s Chamber weigh approximately 9 tons

Height:  Originally 481 feet, but now only 449 feet

Symbolism of pyramid shape:  Representative of the sun’s rays

Function:  Burial chamber for the King and his riches.  He was buried with

artifacts and supplies to be used in the afterlife.

Balance 

Brancusi, Constantin

Bird in Space

1928

   Blur by Diller & Scofidio

      Swiss National Expo 2002

      Yverdon-les-bains, Switzerland

Repetition

Rossi, Aldo

Cemetery of San Cataldo

Modena, Italy

1972 

Contrast

Checkerboard 

Unfinished Bound Slave

         by Michelangelo

        1519

         6’ tall, marble

 Pyramid of Khafre  

 Egypt  

Pyramid at Louvre by I.M.Pei

   Paris, France

   1989  

   Funerary mask from Grave Circle at Mycenae

      c. 1600 – 1500 BC, Greece

   Treasury of Atreus at Mycenae

                 c. 1300 – 1250 BC, Greece

   Lion Gate at Mycenae

                 c. 1300 – 1250 BC, Greece

   Ames Gate Lodge  

    by H. H. Richardson  

   1881      

North Easton, Massachusetts  

          Karnak Temple in Egypt      

         Johnson Wax Building 

           by Frank Lloyd Wright

           Racine, Wisconsin  1936 -39

Texture

treebark

Proportion 

Pei, I. M., Architect

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Cleveland, Ohio

1998

Rhythm 

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste

Le Moulin de la Galette

1876

Space

Salk Institute

Architect:  Louis Kahn

La Jolla, California

1959 - 1966

Scale

Stonehenge

Wiltshire, England

c. 2000 BC

Structure

Serra, Richard

The Matter of Time

2005

Similarity

Seagram Building

Mies van Der Rohe

1954 - 1958

Gradation

Static-Dynamic Gradation

Paul Klee

1923 

Concentration

Cityscape

Form

Ferrari

Model 309 GTS

2004

Radiation

Rose Window

Chartres Cathedral

12th Century