Sculpture:Found Materials

Multiples Found Object Three-Dimensional Design Project Materials:

Five or more found objects

Glue

Scissors

tape

string

paper

cloth

wool

wire

anything to combine the objects.

 

Project description:

Students will combine multiples ( five or more) of like found objects to give them a new form. 

Students will bring together five (or more) like found objects and make one new from by combining these objects. 

Students will use techniques of binding, wrapping, coating, or other methods of joining the five+ objects to each other and to other materials in order to make the sculpture visually captivating.

 

Students can make the piece elegant, sublime, beautiful, surreal, or fantastic.

Notes: 

Texture and methods of construction are important to the over all appearance.

Objects must be structurally sound, must not fall apart.

Just about anything can be used as long as you don't pay for it.  Look around the house, junk yards, and nature.

Artist to look at:

Jackie Winsor, Lucas Samaras, Arman, Meret Oppenheim, Eva Hesse, Rauschenberg, Tom Friedman

Student Skills:

Students will explore aesthetic relationship between form and space.
Students will interpret form, space, mass, and shape.
Students will develop creative problem solving skills and artistic expression,
Students will develop conceptual and process-based problem solving skills, interpretive skills, and oral communication skills
 

 

 

 

Three Dimensional Overview Information:

 

 

Basic Vocabulary 

 

Postive Shape: a shape that has detail insides it, such as an outline of a human, with body features.

Negative shape: a shape with out any details, it just an outline.

Volume; the amount of space that a substance or object occupies, or that is enclosed within a container, especially when great.

Line: marks that span a distance between two points (or the path of a moving point). As an art element, line pertains to the use of various marks, outlines and implied lines in artwork and design. A line has a width, direction, and length. A line's width is sometimes called its "thickness". Lines are sometimes called "strokes", especially when referring to lines in digital artwork.

Contrast: the state of being strikingly different from something else, typically something in juxtaposition or close association.

Direction: a course along which someone or something moves.