PROJECT 3: VISUAL HIERARCHY

This project is all about creating a 3D object based off of a 2D painting, very similar to what one does with elevations and other drawings. However, it was completely up to the students to decide what was transformed into lines, points, or planes. The only absolute requirement was that one side of the completed model had to look like the painting. Project 3 proved to be one of the most difficult projects due to the intricacy of the Mondrian painting I was assigned to recreate. The top image is the Mondrian painting, New York City I, and the bottom image is the side that aligns with it.

Mondrian's New York City I

Front view of the model

Previous examples shown of this painting all primarily used horizontal and vertical planes, I did not want to do the same thing so I opted with only using lines created from basswood sticks. A huge part of creating this was figuring out which lines were intersected by other lines. Also, no one before had worked with the space in between the lines so I chose to highlight the dominant areas and create solids out of those spaces. When the model is rotated a certain way, the solids resemble skyscrapers in a city skyline.