Hey Cas - lots of wonderfully dynamic thumbnails, especially those that give a sense of scale and layering. They largely appear to be 'interior' shots, as you're not so much producing assets or isolated elements 'crops' of larger spaces. In this sense, I do think you need to demonstrate that you're working a little more closely with Gabo's structures and showing a bit more sensitivity for them in terms of thinking about complete architectural elements. For example:
I think it might also help you to look at the work of Calatrava too...
https://calatrava.com/projects.html?all=yes
I think you need to 'zoom out' a bit, Cas - and get a stronger sense of architectural forms. I also want you to avoid any 'fantasy' elements - or rather 'magic' elements. I get a sense this is where your imagination goes by force of habit, though Gabo's ideas were very firmly placed within the real and the functional. That said, Gabo's relationship to 'kinetic' art is well understood, and there is a real sense of that in some of your thumbnails. Your travelogue suggests that some kind of planetarium is the key focus of your concept art; it does seem, if Gabo was commissioned to design a 'signature' building, it would make sense if he was designing a state of the art research centre. However, his work also refused the wall between arts and science, so perhaps you could think about... as the focus of your digital set - some kind of building that is both a 'Scientific research centre' and an 'Art Gallery', somehow linked, somehow blended?
My sense is you actually need to think in a more 'real world' way about this challenge which encourages you to design things and ask/answer questions; I'd also encourage you to identify a building (or buildings) that you think can exemplify Gabo's values/interests accordingly and make that the centre point around which you establish everything else. It could be argued that your thumbnails - however striking - are actually very repetitive in terms of their investigation of Gabo's forms and shapes. As suggested, I want you to zoom out and cross-reference your visual research into Gabo's art with real world research into architectural forms. This will prove helpful as you start considering putting your concept painting together.
Morning Casper... when I click on the link, it saying the document has been removed from Scribd - could you try and resubmit it please?
ReplyDeleteI hope that it works now
DeleteOGR 02/11/2018
ReplyDeleteHey Cas - lots of wonderfully dynamic thumbnails, especially those that give a sense of scale and layering. They largely appear to be 'interior' shots, as you're not so much producing assets or isolated elements 'crops' of larger spaces. In this sense, I do think you need to demonstrate that you're working a little more closely with Gabo's structures and showing a bit more sensitivity for them in terms of thinking about complete architectural elements. For example:
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/zaha-hadid-greatest-works-slideshow/all
I think it might also help you to look at the work of Calatrava too...
https://calatrava.com/projects.html?all=yes
I think you need to 'zoom out' a bit, Cas - and get a stronger sense of architectural forms. I also want you to avoid any 'fantasy' elements - or rather 'magic' elements. I get a sense this is where your imagination goes by force of habit, though Gabo's ideas were very firmly placed within the real and the functional. That said, Gabo's relationship to 'kinetic' art is well understood, and there is a real sense of that in some of your thumbnails. Your travelogue suggests that some kind of planetarium is the key focus of your concept art; it does seem, if Gabo was commissioned to design a 'signature' building, it would make sense if he was designing a state of the art research centre. However, his work also refused the wall between arts and science, so perhaps you could think about... as the focus of your digital set - some kind of building that is both a 'Scientific research centre' and an 'Art Gallery', somehow linked, somehow blended?
My sense is you actually need to think in a more 'real world' way about this challenge which encourages you to design things and ask/answer questions; I'd also encourage you to identify a building (or buildings) that you think can exemplify Gabo's values/interests accordingly and make that the centre point around which you establish everything else. It could be argued that your thumbnails - however striking - are actually very repetitive in terms of their investigation of Gabo's forms and shapes. As suggested, I want you to zoom out and cross-reference your visual research into Gabo's art with real world research into architectural forms. This will prove helpful as you start considering putting your concept painting together.