The Mask_The Veil_The Scaffolding

The first year architecture students finally completed the lengthy Architekton assignment.  Last week, we received our latest assignment, entitled "The Mask_The Veil_The Scaffolding".  In this project, we have been challenged to take a Cubist or Renaissance painting, to break it down into its compositional components, and to analyze these elements. After investigating these elements, we must create a three-dimensional model that superimposes three to six elements we discovered.  I chose El Lissitzky's 1922 painting, "Proun 19D".  Lissitzky's painting was known as suprematist, a movement which , rejected the recreation of natural shapes and favored a shift towards geometric forms.  Specifically, his "Proun" (pronounce pro-oon) pieces were defined, in the words of Lissitzky, as as “the station where one changes from painting to architecture”.  At the moment, Lissitzky is one my favorite artists; there are so many compositional elements that lie just beneath the canvas.

El Lissitzky's "Proun 19D", 1922.

For Visual Media, we are currently working on collages in the syle of Anne Ryan.  But that's a story for another day! I'll post pics and elaborate at a later time. Right now, it's time for bed.