Brendan Lee Satish Tang

 

This piece done by Brendan Lee Satish Tang is clever and well done. He literally has a robot like figure emerging from a traditional vase. I would like to try to make a vase that can stand alone as a sculpture itself. Historical the tulip vases were deconstructed and displayed in different places seasonally, when they were not in use.

Cynthia Giachetti

 

The last two images are from artist Cynthia Giachetti. I really love how chaotic but beautiful her pieces are. Her style is like art nouveau.... I think the colors on the second image help bring unity to this massive display of detail.

Lauren Gallaspy

 

 Lauren Gallaspy does this stringy like detail with porcelain. The strings are organic looking. I would like to see what this would like set with a floral arrangement and bubbling shapes.

Sarah Barnard

 

The last two images are by Sarah Barnard. I picked these for the asymmetrical, dynamic movement. The arrangements look alive and seem to continue to grow.

If I could use elements from each of these artists, I would  like to try to use the movement, the element of surprise or humor, an organic mess that is beautiful, a bubbling, flowering, stringy, sharp, soft, holder of tulips.  Which totally makes sense.

Assignment 2 - Center Piece

My Drawings

art nouveau floral image 

Tulip Vases

Designer: Probably after a design by Christopher Dresser
http://metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/207479

When I was researching about historical vases, I really like this one because of its unique shape and beautiful texture.




Flower Vessel with stand

Artist: Kathryn Finnerty
http://accessceramics.org/results/object/102/

I like this contemporary vase because of the stand, the handle, the texture, and the color choices.


Blue Tulip Vase

Artist: Sanam Emami
http://accessceramics.org/results/object/10/

I think this piece is interesting because of its design. I like the idea that one vase has many many openings, and there is a beautiful tray/bowl thing outside that holding the piece inside.


Flower Vessel
Lust - Side B

Artist: Kathy King
http://accessceramics.org/results/object/102/

I put this piece because it made me think about some possible ways that I can put one part on top of the other. I like the figure on the texture, and I think putting some drawings on the surface may also be a way can show my idea better.

I'm actually still not very sure about which subject I will choose, but I think will be either sexuality or art nouveau floral imagery.

The Vase

This project is proving to be difficult for me to think of any ideas. Personally I think the design of tulip vases are weird and I don't really like them so trying to design something that appeals to me has been a challenge. When I look at floral arrangements I like to see the flowers and other greenery bunched together so that they all create a pleasing look rather than viewing them stuck in individual holes.

This vase by Sanam Enami has a very nice glaze to it but it is a great example of the flowers being too spread out for my liking, they droop and seem out of place.

For my design I would like to do a piece that has all the individual spaces come together, I'm thinking they will spiral up from the bottom and then form together at the top so when flowers are placed in it they will sit closer together.

I really think I'm going to try to focus on a nice art nouveau design for this vase, I really liked the design of this dress panel by Hector Guimard. While it's not a ceramic piece I think I want to incorporate that criss cross flowy line style that really fills up the space.

Assignment 2- the vase

http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/207479?pos=4&rpp=30&pg=1&ft=tulip+vase

http://accessceramics.org/image/2789/

I would like to do a piece that focuses on beauty and sexuality. Somehow when I saw these vases by Christopher Dresser and Sanam Emami (respectively), I imagined similar shapes replaced by women with their arms extended, holding tulips. But then I thought to do a man and a woman, to show that women are not the only people who can be classified as "beautiful". I mainly ended up sketching out an idea of a man and woman intertwined, holding a tulip together, with several other places for the flowers as well. The last two pictures are something extra I looked up on google for ideas on how to make my idea for that vase. 

Assignment 3- the Box

These boxes are by Betsy Williams, and they are what inspired me to do three connecting boxes of irregular shapes. My idea is to make one tall box in the middle, with two shorter ones attached to each side. They will all have lids and meant to hold jewelry, but the middle box will have a piece in the lid to hang necklaces off of. I am going to carve into the boxes so that the jewelry can be somewhat visible from the outside.

Assignment II - Amanda Dority

I wanted my piece to be about something that mattered to me, so I decided I wanted to make a piece about climate change or more popularly known as Global Warming. I really love octopus, pretty much everything about them, but mostly their kind of weird creepy appearance. I thought they were kind of perfect for a vase as well! I have been wanting to sculpt an octopus for awhile, so this kind of seems like a perfect occasion for this. There is an octopus in the antarctic that is called Turquet that is linked to proof of at least a partial collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) during a previous interglacial period. So that is why I chose to make an octopus tulip vase.

I was inspired by: 

The Turquet octopus

Deborah Schwartzkopf

For the tentacle like shape of her tulip vase.

Heather Mae Erickson

For some of my other ideas for this project. I really enjoyed how seemingly simple and yet intricately beautiful her pieces were. They reminded my of shells or rocks. Which inspired my shell drawing.

Sanam Emami

Also for the tentacle like appareance.

I was also thinking it might be cool to carve a water inspired art nouveau pattern into the body of my vase. But I'm not sure if I'd have enough time for that.

and.... my terrible sketches!

Tulip Vase-Robyn Paul

So, for this assignment I had an idea before I began looking at any of the research material. I found that most tulip vases folled the same basic formula of spouts to hold the tulips and a roughly square shape. For my project I would like to create a 3 foot bust with not spouts, but holes where the tulips would go. I would like to create the piece in either 3 one foot sections or 2 one and a half foot sections depending on which bust type I go with. The most unconventional tulip vase that I found was a set of androgynous heads by Tania De Cruz.


http://www.taniadacruz.com/#!/zoom/c10cn/imagexb2

I know that these aren't exactly tulip vases, but one could see how they might be used to hold such a flower. I am also considering the idea of beauty and marketing for both men and women, so I will be branding my piece with several well-known brands of food, clothing, and the sex industry.

Assignment 2 Center Piece

  I was really drawn to this tall tulip vase created by Adriaen Kocks. The Vase looks so pretty, nice, and clean, but when I looked at it closely I found some of the imagery made me uncomfortable (like each tulip holder coming out of an odd face and the creepy non-human face on the bottom tulip holding section). I like these details, and I think it would be fun to play with a beautiful and well balanced design from far away and small disturbing imagery that won’t be noticed immediately.

 

I like the softness Martha Grover is able to achieve in her Tulip Vase piece. I also like the folds and organic feel the vase gives off, its a very different approach to the vase form than I have seen in my Google searches.

I like the simplicity Ineke Hans is able to achieve. This vase seems to be the most simple form for its function. I think this is a good reference for the basic form I'll need to create for this assignment.

Sketches

 media push that beauty and perfection of body is most important

Art Nouveau Reference Imagery

Assignment II - Tulip Vase

Sanam Emami

Arthur Halvorsen

Martha Grover

Deborah Schwartzkopf

Lynn Duryea

When looking at the design of tulip vases Sanam Emami, Deborah Schwartzkopf and Arthur Halvorsen pieces gave me a decent idea of how to go about forming the vase. It opened for questions of whether or not to have tubes to hold the flowers or simply holes for them to rest in. Overall, I am really drawn to Martha Grover's work, particularly the flowing organic and feminine qualities. After considering the parameters of the assignment I began developing two very different ideas one surrounding body image issues and the other pollution. The body image issues would be reflected in making either a realistic female torso or an abstracted one incorporating qualities seen in Grover's pieces. The other idea I had was inspired by Lynn Duryea vases, they remind me of factory exhaust pipes and air pollution. I thought it could be interesting to create a set of stacking vessels that emulate exhaust piping from an oil refinery or factory.