MONDRIAN

Sketch model is pictured upside down 

With the word levitation, I wanted to create a TINY base so it looks barely visible and gives the illusion that the heavier and larger volumes are floating.

Also, with the rectilinear volumes getting larger as they are stacked higher up, it puts extra emphasis on the LEVITATION aspect  as there is TENSION with the base being the SO.

The D, SD and SO are roughly within 1/3 or 1/2 of each other’s dimensions, giving the overall feeling of balance and harmony.

I wanted to associate each of my sketch models with a different artist, so for the first model, I named it MONDRIAN after Piet Mondrian. By incorporating his colour scheme into my sketch analysis, I feel like the analysis is more evocative of his compositions and play with different cubic/rectangular forms.

MONET   

This sketch model explores a different direction of levitation while using the same idea of having a small, inconspicuous SO. The SO is used here to support the SD, while being small enough to be almost invisible, giving the illusion that the SD is floating in front of the D.

Also, although the SD is larger in length as compared to the D, it doesn’t over-shadow the D as its overall visual impact is less.

By using a white colour in my sketch analysis for the SO, I intended to highlight its “invisibility”.

Water Lillies, Monet via here

I named this sketch model MONET as the colours I used in the sketch analysis reminded me of Monet’s water lilies.

MAGRITTEThis sketch model shares a similar concept to MONET with a small, barely visible SO and the placement of the Ds in the background, with the SD “floating” in the foreground. The D here serves almost as a backdrop to the SD, reminiscent of a cloud in the sky.

However, in this sketch model, the length of the SD and D are too similar.

As mentioned before, the sketch model evokes a mental image of a cloud in the sky, so I named the model MAGRITTE after Rene Magritte’s repeated use of clouds as a motif in his paintings.