N. Dolphin WARP

This reading opened my knowledge behind ornament and design a lot wider. I had never thought about how a neurological, cultural or philosophical need could be what drives me towards ornament and pattern work. We humans use pattern and design to organize complexity that we deal with. We relate what we see and layer on what we know and create our own connective ornament in our minds. Culture plays a huge role in ornament and design, as well as technological advancements. Some movements have caused a negative view of the art of making ornaments, and some have revived them. There are 6 different aspects to approaching ornaments and pattern: Amplification, The Everyday, Kit-of-Parts, Elaboration, Inheritances, and Fantasy, which dictate different outcomes. Ornament can have a functional purpose, or can be used a a medium of narrative, to express imagination and more. There have bee different art-historical periods that have affected ornament and design like the modern and post modern perio...

I was very surprised that I had never seen or heard about this treasure. The building it self was so different from all the modern large art museums that have taken over Miami, and the Wolfsonian FIU was such a nice difference. The building was very art deco which went along nicely with some of the artwork because of the focused art periods. The museum's mission is the use objects to demonstrate the power of persuasive art and design. It is curated to encourage people to see the world in a new perspective and take the past and shape the present and future. The Wolfsonian has a huge collection of aquistions that tell the story of how political, social, and technological changes have formed our present modern world. The museum's ongoing exhibition "Art and Design in the Modern Age" was a great inspiration for pattern and ornaments because of all the details the furniture had and different time periods that influence...

5 images of pattern and ornament in my every day life

"Ornament" and the Sources of Design in the Decorative Arts Ivins wrote an article about "Ornament" and the Sources of Design in the Decorative Arts. He covered many topics about the subject of ornament and decorative arts, but the main idea I grasped was the relationship between idea and execution. The parallel relationship with design and craftsmanship. Ivins made the great analogy of the composer and musician; how they both need each other in order to succeed. Just like a musician makes written symbols into fluid sounds to be heard, a craftsman combines color shape and idea into a product to be seen or touched. Without a craftsman there is no product and without a designer there isn't an idea.  Ivins also covers the topic of how mass production changed the pace of art making over time. Before the printing press and idea of instructive drawings came to be, designs and crafts were made and executed...

I focused on adding detail of the face, but I didn't want to make it look like an actual human yet. I got my inspiration from a plaster bust my mother did in high school. I also added the history of the Olmec heads I later looked up while researching. Simple features that demonstrated so much, but I wanted to work with the opposite of a hard stone. I have been sewing since I was little and really enjoy it, so I thought  could put my skills to work while making fabric heads. I didn't want them to look like puppets so I focused on the simplicity of a head as a whole. I was focused on a slow process of growth from the first head to the continuing pieces. I spent most of my time on quality of the sewing, symmetry and underlying shapes. The green and red shapes are used to represent the different shades we have underlying our skin causing different tones on our face. But once again I still wanted it to look more like a representation of a head, not a model. The process behind the h...

This is the process of development from the first head to the latest head. I am planning to keep adding to the development.