In class Wednesday 7/9

Using the lecture Not So Still Life: 3D capture, please make a still life composition that leverages an experimental tool we have discussed in class (or that you have come across on your own) in a unique way.

1. Review the traditional approach to still lives below.
2. Consider a contemporary twist on a traditional still life approach. What objects do you want to arrange? What do you want to say, capture, experiment with in this format?
3. Experiment with a series of tools (you can mix and match approaches we have discussed so far) to create a unique approach to capturing and representing a still life. Consider photogrammetry, a 3D scanning smart phone app, 3D tools like those in illustrator or monstermash.zone.
4. Create your composition in the form of an image, series of images, or gif. You can also host your composition as a 3D model on a site like sketchfab.com
5. Add your work, a few lines of text, and a title to a blog post explaining your process and thinking.
6. Select Unit 1 AND Project 3 as categories for the post

STILL LIFE

please review this page on Still Lives.

The subject matter of a still life painting or sculpture is anything that does not move or is dead.

Traditional still life includes all kinds of man-made or natural objects, cut flowers, fruit, vegetables, fish, game, wine and so on. Still life can be a celebration of material pleasures such as food and wine, or often a warning of the ephemerality of these pleasures and of the brevity of human life (see memento mori).

Still lifes can include all kinds of man-made or natural objects. They can be realistic or abstract, familiar or unexpected or have a symbolic meaning related to celebration or death.

You add extra meaning to a work when you include things of personal significance. These things could be a photograph or a souvenir. Many twentieth century artists depict objects of cultural significance. Andy Warhol used real everyday objects to symbolise contemporary culture and consumerism.