Interesting Objects

Interesting Objects 

by Ashley Izaguirre

It never occurred to me that combing two objects would be interesting, but it is. I like how combined objects create different functionality and appearance. 

Light up pacifiers by Tim STAMATIADIS

The combination of light and a pacifier looks really nice, but it ruins the functionality of sucking the pacifier because it might be too hot. It can be used a cute night light for younger kids or for decorations.

Cactus-like vases by Pia and Moritz Wüstenberg

I really love the how the artist combined a cactus that is presumed as a harsh plant into something really astonishing and smooth. You can still use it to store things, which is an A+ for me.

 

More on appearances: 

Pixelated Wood carving of a boy by Hsu Tung Han

This piece is my favorite out of these pictures because I've never seen someone combined something that is considered 2D or digital into the real world. The wood carving is very smooth. I feel like there is some movement conveyed in this piece. 

Animals, plants and mechanical parts combined by Ellen Jewett

At first, they look like mangy, skinny animals, but if you see it closely, you'd see plants well camouflaged in the animals' colors. The artist combined plants and mechanical parts to create these beautiful sculptures to life. 

Another piece by the same artist

Recently, the artist has decided to use less of the substance around her to create this rabbit.  A lot of negative space.

Andrew Williams "Gohmn"

Andrew Williams "Gohmn"

Andrew Williams "Gohmn" is a talented 3D creator. He used to be a street artist and a musician. He uses programs like Cinema4D, Octane Render and Photoshop to create surreal and 3D detailed worlds. The "Gohma"  came from a Zelda Boss back when he was in high school. Gohma is the first boss in Ocarina of Time, a game Andrew started playing but never gotten to beat. He then switched to  the name "Gohmn" when he first started to produce music. 

He's a really good artist in my opinion because I'm amazed something like below aren't real. At first I thought they were, but it was just digital.

“Inner Growth,” this piece was made using Cinema 4D, Photoshop and Octane Render.

Different Plaster Techniques

Different Plaster Techniques

     Plaster is the most commonly used casting material because its ease of use. If you put it in water it will start an exothermic reaction in the Plaster causing it to harden. Once applied it'll feel hard within 4 minutes, but it takes 2-3 days for it to dry completely. Plaster-of-Paris, the Plaster we're using in 3D art class, comes in various form: slab (only a part of circumference of a limb is incorporated), cast (the whole circumference of a limb), spica and brace. Plaster casts can be divided into 3 types: badly padded Plaster, unpadded Plaster and padded Plaster.

Unpadded Plaster

People Who Used Plaster In Their Artwork

"In 2012, Rachel Dein showed the owners of a flower-shop a plaster-cast tile she had made from a bouquet. They were impressed, and soon the UK artist began receiving commissions to make more of these modern “fossils.'" She presses flowers into clay. When their removed they leave perfect impressions. Then she pours a mixture of plaster and cement into the clay mold. 

Another person is Robert Taplin, who uses plaster in his artwork. It looks amazing. 

Pluto rising (2000)

Five Outer Planets (1999)

JIm McKenzie

Jim McKenzie

Jim is a New York based Lowbrow / Pop Surrealist artist and animation commercial director. His sculptures and paintings often depict surrealist wonderlands occupied by highly saturated characters.

 

"The Scarecrow" 

It has an ironic phobia of crows.

All of these sculptures are from his solo exhibit called, "Lost Magic." The only reason I chose Jim is because I saw a YouTube video of him doing the "Scarecrow" and the process of it. I found it really awesome and kind of learned from the video how things are so detailed. It makes me want to do a sculpture as wild and ironic as Jim's are. He kind of has that Tim Burton feel but less dark. I can say all his sculptures makes question his inspiration to be honest, but his sculptures are amazing to look at. 

FOREAL

FOREAL 

FOREAL is a "young design studio with a creative focus on illustration & art direction." It was founded by Benjamin Simon and Dirk Schuster. Their artwork makes me question "What is going on here?" and laugh sometimes. They have interesting CGI art. 

Here we see on the left is Mickey Mouse's hands mimicking mimicking Michelangelo’s iconic “The Creation of Adam.” Pretty nostalgic I say.

They also do contemporary mashups such as the one above where Barack Obama is mashup with David Bowie and also a race car. 

I have no words for this one but just "Why?"

This one definitely goes under "Things I should've Not Seen" tab.

The more I look at this the more disturbed out I am.

Tooth-brush, get it? This reminds me of Jasper John's "The Critic Smiles" (1959) but with a more modern feel. 

Lisa Rodden

Lisa Rodden 

Lisa Rodden is a Visual Artist, Creator and Designer. She is from Sydney, Australia.

Gumnuts II

Her artwork process is painting a cardboard then cutting design on another cardboard. She places the painted cardboard under the cut one. She lifts up the already cut designs and then the final results are how they look like below. She's really good with the razor.

Two Koi

I really like this because it's just so neat. 

Also it's amazing. I've never seen art like this before to be honest.

This looks like something a perfectionist would do if they're an artist. She really knows how to handle the razor.  

This one is my second favorite. It's just so detailed as it can get and the shadows makes the feathers seem a little life like somehow. 

Last but not least is this Chinese dragon, it's also my favorite. I really want to make something like this.

Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker associated with Abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and Pop art according to Wikipedia. He was influenced by Robert Rauschenberg, Pablo Picasso, and many others. 

Sculptures

"The Critic Smiles" (1959)

What's outstanding about this sculpture was that instead of sculpting the bristles on the toothbrush, John sculpted teeth. 

"The Critic Sees" (1961)

This sculpture surprised me. At first glance you just see a pair of glasses but at a closer inspection you see mouth for eyes. The critic sees through their mouth. 

You can already tell by looking at these sculptures that John didn't liked people criticizing his art without fully understanding the story behind it.  

"Light Bulb" (1960)

All I can say about this sculpture is that it seemed that John wanted or had new ideas, thoughts or inspiration. 

"Flash Light 1" (1958)

"Painted Bronze" (1960)

Fun Fact

"He never became, in historical terms, a mainstream artist, never joined the parade that sprang up after him in the early 1960s. He didn’t align his work with either Pop Art or Minimalism. And he certainly didn’t join any of the clubs associated with a style, technique or subject. Instead he went his own way and, more to the point, he exposed what he thought of critics in two sculptural objects, “The Critic Smiles” (1959), a well-known work depicting a toothbrush with human teeth instead of bristles, which is included in the exhibition at Craig F. Starr, and “The Critic Sees” (1961), which replaces the critic’s bespectacled eyes with a pair of mouths"- hyperallergic.com

"Sometimes I see it then paint it. Other times I paint it then see it...At every point in nature there is something to see."

-Jasper Johns

I like this quote from him. Describes me in terms when it comes to art.