It has been an extremely busy start right back into the world of studio work here in Crown Hall and IIT. I have new classes, a new professor, and a new studio group.
This project has been ongoing since the very first day of Studio when our professor showed us a selection of paintings in which each group of two had to choose from in order to start this project.
My partner and I selected Vincent and Tony by the painter Alex Katz.
It is a very large painting of Alex Katz's son, Vincent and his boyhood friend, Tony.
Luckily, this painting is kept in the Art Institute of Chicago so I was able to look at it up close and in person.
Here is a photo I took of the painting.
We first had to take a digital copy of the photo and make pixel studies of it to see what colors show up and how they related to each other. I did 12 in total.
Here are a few.
Both my partner and I started to pick up on the use of four major colors. These being Orange, Blue, Brown, and Beige.
The two I used as my main focus were these two.
From there we had to make two collages based off of our studies. One from magazine samples and the other from paint. Mine are still in the construction stage right now. My focus for both is the varying tones of the four colors.
The final step of this project, the step we are on now, is the construction of making a three dimensional model of an abstract interpretation of the painting. This turned out to be a big challenge because we wanted to show that the painting is both two separate boys but one large work. So that became our goal. A model that showed both being two separate parts but one whole model.
Here is a Sketchup model of what is being built right now.
The one on the left is shown with color to help us with our desk review with our professor, the colors will not be exactly like that. The one on the right is an edited version with slightly different measurements.
Finally, two things to help explain our idea. A little model. I built this little study model to show how the tall panels and the short ones will interlock.
And the many color options that are being considered for the final full-scale model.
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