As the start of our Ranch project, we went on a trip to the Weatherspoon Art Gallery and chose a painting from the 1950's exhibit. We had to do some research on our artist/piece of work and use that as the basis for our design ideas for the project. This is the piece I chose:
Gertrude Greene (1904-1956)
Calligraphy, 1950
Oil on Canvas
Gertrude Greene was born in Brooklyn and attended art classes at Leonardo da Vinci Art School and at age twenty-two. She married painter Balcomb Greenewas and they traveled together in Europe the first five years of their marriage and then settled in New York City where she took a studio in Greenwich Village. She was the co-founder of the American Abstract Artists group in 1936. She combined geometric and biomorphic abstraction forms and by 1950 she was painting in a loose, expressionist manner and using a palette knife.
Looking at her painting, I like the way she uses a black and white color scheme and interjects a bold blue. The main focus of the piece is centered and bold and draws the eye in to the painting. Using this piece as an inspiration for the redesign of the ranch house would allow me to have a simple color scheme yet make it bold and modern with the use of one or two colors. It also informs me to create a central focal point, create balance on the top and bottom of the space, and to use rectilinear forms throughout my design process.
In class today, we were asked to use the reading from Bachelard and the information we received from our research of our artist, and strategize a working parti for the house. We were told to reduce our thoughts to an easily understood diagram.
Gertrude Greene (1904-1956)
Calligraphy, 1950
Oil on Canvas
Gertrude Greene was born in Brooklyn and attended art classes at Leonardo da Vinci Art School and at age twenty-two. She married painter Balcomb Greenewas and they traveled together in Europe the first five years of their marriage and then settled in New York City where she took a studio in Greenwich Village. She was the co-founder of the American Abstract Artists group in 1936. She combined geometric and biomorphic abstraction forms and by 1950 she was painting in a loose, expressionist manner and using a palette knife.
Looking at her painting, I like the way she uses a black and white color scheme and interjects a bold blue. The main focus of the piece is centered and bold and draws the eye in to the painting. Using this piece as an inspiration for the redesign of the ranch house would allow me to have a simple color scheme yet make it bold and modern with the use of one or two colors. It also informs me to create a central focal point, create balance on the top and bottom of the space, and to use rectilinear forms throughout my design process.
In class today, we were asked to use the reading from Bachelard and the information we received from our research of our artist, and strategize a working parti for the house. We were told to reduce our thoughts to an easily understood diagram.
After looking at the piece itself and noticing the bold color choice and the layers within it, I focused on her use of biomorphic abstraction.
I thought about the process of rain as a natural phenomena that changes as it hits earth, which fits with the idea behind the Calligraphy painting. Then I started thinking about the process of how a caterpillar turns into a butterfly and how the caterpillar and the butterfly themselves are different.
After I sketched out a few ideas, I made some models that addressed light, color, and material.
I chose dark color and linear forms in the back to represent the caterpillar and a light colored and delicate form to put on top of it to represent the butterfly
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