Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Abstracting a Landscape or Interior

Recently my class was given the assignment to create an abstraction from a landscape or interior.  Duncan Grant's "Interior at Gordon Square" was the example as part of the show at the MOMA "Inventing Abstraction."  Below is an image of his painting:


I took that as an opportunity to create my own landscape using dimensional materials, primarily wooden triangles and cylinders, adding some pieces of grid paper and then adhering everything onto cardboard, and finally mounting the piece on an off- white board.  I created this from looking at a print of an old-fashioned town with many little houses and a waterfall.  Below is the finished piece:


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