tailieunhanh - Math, Science, and Technology in Contemporary Sculpture

The “tarp” paintings, made between 1986 and 1988, use tarpaulins for supports that previously covered army trucks. They are stretched and then painted or treated in some way by the artist. The random nature of the patterning caused by the wear to the tarpaulin provides the artist with a point of departure. It avoids the conscious or unconscious decision of where to put the holes, plates or antlers and how to manipulate the shape of the underlying support, because the tarpaulin has already been used. Sometimes Schnabel fixes them behind a car and drags them over asphalt, marking the surface on which he then paints. The rich surface. | Research Paper Math Science and Technology in Contemporary Sculpture Philip Likens Savannah College of Art and Design ARTH 701 Contemporary Art Professor Swartz March 7 2010 Likens 1 Without the mathematic scientific and technological advances of the 20th century the contemporary sculptures of Theo Jansen Robert Lang and Julian Voss-Andreae would not be possible. Each of these artists uses math science and technology in their artwork to varying degrees. Theo Jansen began his sculptural work with a base of computer-generated numbers and has evolved his series of sculptures from that base. Robert Lang uses computer technology to apply mathematics to the creation of original origami figures. Julian Voss-Andreae is concerned with the visualization of complex scientific theories and molecules that make up the world in which we live. Each of these three contemporary artists use breakthroughs in math science and computer technology to create works of art that would not have been possible one hundred years ago. Theo Jansen is a kinetic sculpture artist born and based in The Hague Netherlands. Jansen once a painter with a physics background now spends his time creating new forms of life. Jansen calls these sculptures Strandbeest or beach creatures. 1 His aim is to create a herd of beach-dwelling creatures that can save the people of the Netherlands from the rising tide of the ocean by building the sand dunes higher over 3 Animaris Currens Vulgaris Figure 1 is a beach animal created by Theo Jansen in Perhaps the two most readily notable aspects of Animaris Currens Vulgaris are its unique composition and movement. Vulgaris as the majority of the Standbeest series are is composed nearly exclusively of two materials yellow plastic electrical tubing and nylon cable ties. Jansen considers the electrical tubing to be akin to the proteins that constitute the human Proteins are commonplace in living organisms and are not exclusive to humans yet they are .