Friday, April 15, 2011

VI. Toy, Game or Invention

Play/Invent: participate in games or sport, the creation of something in the mind.


Mass: perceived weight or density of an object or area.

Chris Gilmour, Fiat 500

Julie Simon, Walking Object

Madgalena Abakanowicz, Ninety five figures from the crowd of one thousand ninety five figure

Richard Sweeney, Forms in Paper

Tom Otterness, Mama Pig


Weight: the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity.

Anthony Ingolia, Table Lamp

Mark di Suvero, Schubert's Sonata

Nam June Paik, Who's your Tree

Robert Carr, Paper Sculpture

Robyn Horn, Impromptu


Gravity: the force of attraction between all masses in the universe.

Claus Oldenburg, Spitzhacke Kasse

Eduardo Chillida, Eulogy to Water

Magdalena Abakanowicz, Gruby

Rebecca Horn, Yin & Yang

Robert Morris, Vetti III

Presence: the state of being present; current existence.
Absence: lacking: nonexistent.

(The above terms have sculptures to represent them on II. Line and Space)

Negative space: open space penetrating openings and surrounding the outer contour of a shape or form; the ground in a figure-ground relationship. That space which is controlled or affected by a shape or form.

Bruno Catalano, Missing Pieces

Edward Tufte, Negative Space Study

Mathilde Roussel-Giraudy, Negative Space Pillow

Olafur Eliasson, Your House (Inside A Book)

Peter Murphy, Timelapse


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