China House Nightmare

China’s Bronze Age - a time period beginning in 1650 BCE, where men learned how to mine and smelt copper and tin not only to make bronze weapons and tools, but art as well. It is necessary for one to know of this certain period in order to fully understand the piece of artwork I chose to analyze. The specific piece is one from Materialized: Juried 3D Printed Art, an exhibition that is currently on view here on campus. The piece is called House Nightmare, which was created by Patrick Wilson, an artist from Kalamazoo. It features a stilted house that has pieces scattered, a dismantled structure, and a staircase in the back of the house. The piece is recognizable as a structure, a house to be specific, and in my eyes it has a subtle evil
However, if you analyze all angles of the piece, it’s obvious that there is certainly formal elements. To begin, the first element that I noticed was line. The deep lines on the roof accentuate the shingles and on the siding of the house as well. The lines are uniform on the walls and repeat the whole way down. On the roof there is an alternate pattern in each row. As for the broken out pieces, the lines allow one to understand how the direction of the break. The piece includes hidden lines as well that serve as sort of a directional purpose. The second element I noticed was the use of texture. Texture sort of directly relates to the use of lines. Texture is used on the roof of the cylinder as well as the roof of the actual house. It is easy to tell without touching that it is a rough shingle material. Also, on the outside of the cylinder, texture is used to show how it was structured. Texture is also used on the stilts to show it is some sort of metal material. It is also used on the stairway to accentuate the grain in the wood. Another element used in this piece is shape. As previously mentioned, the piece is 3D. Most shapes are geometric which includes cylinders, pyramids, prisms, and cones as well. There is also irregular shapes which is represented in the broken pieces. As previously mentioned, there is certainly a dominant pattern in the siding of the house as well as the
The ripped apart house means more than just a disaster that may have caused destruction of a structure. I believe the artist is showing how all things, no matter what it applies to, will eventually experience something negative. Shape was used effectively to show the evil in this piece. The house is standing stall, stilted off the ground using cylinders, which are worn. The main cube used for the house has a large irregular shape taken out of the side of it which is found laying on the ground. The artist also uses shape to show all the pieces of the house and how they rely on each other. It includes many pointy and gothic type shapes. There are not too many round shapes included either. I believe all this helps to communicate a sort of darkness the model has as well. Ultimately each element, not just one, helps to communicate the overall message the artist is trying to