Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Project 3

Project 3: Research

For project three we are doing 5 modern sculpture models using primitives in Maya.

Heres some research I did to get me started.
constructivism- nonrepresentational style of art developed by a group of Russian artists principally in the early 20th century, characterized chiefly by a severely formal organization of mass, volume, and space, and by the employment of modern industrial materials.

another definition:
A movement in modern art originating in Moscow in 1920 and characterized by the use of industrial materials such as glass, sheet metal, and plastic to create nonrepresentational, often geometric objects.

minimalism
- an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color

another definition:

A school of abstract painting and sculpture that emphasizes extreme simplification of form, as by the use of basic shapes and monochromatic palettes of primary colors, objectivity, and anonymity of style. Also called ABC art, minimal art, reductivism, rejective art.

Donald Judd





David Smith



Richard Serra




Alexander Calder




Constantin Brancusi


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