User:Olivia Evans

DIGITAL CRAFT/ PLAN//

For the practice of Digital craft, I have chosen to focus on the sculpture of ‘Zittend naakt met appel’,(1957-1959) by the artist, Charlotte van Pallandt. The sculpture is made from Bronze and depicts a female form sitting thoughtfully. I have chosen this figure to appropriate as it interests me, I would like to focus on appropriating the human form. I firstly photographed it in order to document it digitally from a few angles.

A sketch that I have created of the sculpture that I have chosen to appropriate, I plan to 3D print the sculpture using the 3D printer that is available for use in school.

After documenting it with my camera I plan to 3D print the form of the sculpture, focusing on really capturing the angles of the figure, therefore, appropriating it. I returned to the museum once again to 3D scan the object to prepare it for printing, I have placed a screenshot of one of the scans I made, using a total of 29 photographs stitched together. I have created a few scans of the sculpture to prepare it for 3D printing so that I can determine which scan displays the form of the figure best.

RESEARCH// PRIMARY RESEARCH

I have carried out both primary and secondary research into different types of sculpture, both present and modern. my primary research is experimenting with capturing the human form, as that is what i am interested in appropriating, i therefore photographed my younger brother to do this.

SECONDARY RESEARCH

I have focused on both classical and modern sculpture depicting the human form to assist me in my research progress, using secondary sourced images.

Interesting appropriation that I have discovered and could help inspire my own work: Paolozzi was walking past Harrods store one morning and saw a window dresser setting up a display which included a plaster cast of the head of Michelangelo's marble sculpture of David. He temporarily borrowed the cast from Harrods and had another cast made from it at the Royal College of Art. Paolozzi sawed his cast in pieces and glued wooden blocks in the cuts. The attack upon the cast is partly a comment on the great plaster cast collection of antique sculptures that used to belong to the Munich Academy of Arts, and which was largely destroyed during student riots in 1972. When Paolozzi was a student at Edinburgh College of Art in 1943, part of the teaching was to draw from casts of Michelangelo's David. (example of work shown below)