This past weekend I went to the Rike Center with my friend and looked at the senior gallery. I was amazed with all of the talent that I saw within one gallery. Every piece of art that was in the gallery had a certain personal trade mark connected to the artists. My favorite piece was the portrait of a man named Erin, and it was titled “Self Portrait”. It was created on the wall of the gallery out of charcoal, pencil, and pen. It was only in black and white and the numbers that were on the man were used in red pen. The numbers represented the artist’s birth date, which was his own way of adding his own personal style to his portrait. Another one of my favorite pieces of art was not in the senior art gallery. It was in the 3D room. My friend, Brooke Skyllingstad, created a volumetric cube that was 12x12 inches and painted in black, red, and blue.
I don’t really know why the professor made the class make volumetric cubes as an assignment but the point was to learn about how volume works in art. Each cube had different elements to them. Some had circles and stairs, others had bridges and doors. In my opinion, I thought each cube was different and none of them looked the same.
The process of making the volumetric cube was pretty long. At first they started off by making a rough draft cube. By designing the cube they had to use a program on their laptops and make sure the sizes of the rough draft cubes were proportional to the cubes they made on their computers. Then for their final cubes, they had to make a cube that was a complete 12x12 version.
The amount of work and devotion that was put into the process of making these cubes made was really time consuming. Since the cubes were made completely out of cardboard, the students had to work extra hard in order to make the elements of the volumetric cue turn into circles. From watching Brooke throughout the process of making this cube, I learned that the process of making 3D art isn’t as easy. It takes a lot of work and a lot of time to complete one project. From looking at Brooke’s cube as well as other people’s volumetric cubes, it is amazing to see how people can put in so much effort to make great pieces of art.
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