Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer describing his work of how and why.

Painting Brief

My final brief for Certificates in Design and Visual Arts is Painting. I was skeptical at first about this brief when I first saw it, but I was shown the potentials of what I can explore and experiment with. My final brief reminds me more of art in Auckland Grammar School; with an artist model and create a series of transposition paintings using an artist model based on one particular painting.

The painting of which I have to create a series of transposition is Tiger Hunt, 1854 by Eugene Delacroix.

Tiger Hunt 1854 by Eugene Delacroix

The artists I have to choose is either

1.) Henri Matisse
2.) Anselm Kiefer
3.) David Salle

I have chosen Anselm Kiefer because I like his dark paintings and his style is in a way that I want/can explore and experiment the medium.

Lost Wife 1989 by Anselm Kiefer

Origami and Abstraction within Interior Design

Origami is a form of abstraction, the repetition of shapes and folds is used to form a representation of an object that the origami is trying to replicate. Origami, by design is from maths. The use of geometry and symmetry is the process of designing origami.

My origami model with a woman figure inside. Both the woman and mode scale is 1:20

I want to make the woman within the model insignificant by the size of the model.

This model is based on origami and the repetition of origami shapes, the gaps between each shape represents the folds that origami makes. I used foam boards and card boards because I want to represent the different thickness of the origami. 

This is a photograph of which I took with the model in the sun where the light is shining through the holes.

This model was also influenced by Jeena Shin's Artspace Stairwell Project because the similarities of our work is that both our works are based on the shapes of paper and the repetitions of these shapes to form an artwork. However mine differs from hers. Her Artspace Stairwell Project is 2D yet it mimics the aesthetics of 3D that is only based on the wall while my model gives a more 3D effect because I have shapes and panels that comes off the walls and floor while intersecting each other.

This is my wall which I presented my work. This is inspired by Jeena Shin's Artspace Stairwell Project, but instead of an illusion of being 3D mine is actual 3D by having each origami shapes in foam boards and popping out of the wall.

Jeena Shin

Jeena Shin is an artist who did the Artspace Stairwell Project at the K'Road art gallery.

Artspace Stairwell Project Each shape she painted is based on folded paper.

 
By painting each shape in different shade of white this gives it an illusion of having a 3D aesthetics of folded paper and by painting in each shape in different thickness; this gives it a more 3D effect. This particular work relies on light and depending on where the audience stand and where the light is shining from, this can be viewed differently.

Artspace Stairwel Project
This shows the shapes of folded paper and different shades of white.

Source: http://www.artspace.org.nz/

Kamiya Satoshi

Kamiya Satoshi is a "master" of origami, he have created many designs that varies from beginner to very complex professional origami designs. He is well known for making such complex designs by using only a single sheet of paper.


Kamiya Satoshi making Bahamut and shows other origami made by him.



Kamiya Satoshi making his famous Phoenix design.

Origami

Origami is a traditional Japanese art of paper folding. The most well known origami is the paper crane. The crane was the first origami that I was taught and it was the origin of my passion within origami, later I moved onto harder designs.



This is my origami crane within photography which was part of a narrative series where this particular crane goes on a journey to find it's friends. I did quite a number of origami cranes and flowers within this project and I wanted to create a world of origami.



I wanted to add different sorts of origami designs within this world. This world is flat because I like this idea how people use to think the world is flat and how if you were to walk too far to the horizon you would fall off. The designs I included within this world are origami roses, cubes and of course, the cranes. I also added a special origami which is most well known as a Chocobo from the Final Fantasy series, based on the Yelllow Bird design by Satoshi Kamiya.