As the title reads, this was a three day build I did for my 3D fundamentals class.
For the majority of the class we made paper sculptures, however for our final project our instructor gave us the freedom choosing other mediums to sculpt in. The only catch was that we had to familiarize ourselves with a sculptor, and make the sculpture of our own in homage to their art.
The artist I chose was Jean Tinguely, who quite frankly I've never heard of until that class. After reading a few biographies about him I began to grow interested. He is a Dada sculpture, which means his art is usually 'useless.' Have no value other than political satire and aesthetic appeal. Tingueley's machines usually self destruct, or just plain move with no use or function other than to look aesthetic. One of his most notable sculptures was 'Homage to New York' where he was overwhelmed by American materialistic views, and heavy industry. Therefore he made a sculpture, that over a slow coarse of time, as it moved, destroyed itself.
Brilliant if you ask me, so taking reference from a few of his sculptures (Most notably the death car) I came up with a small statue of what appears to be a useless machine. As the title suggest, one more, it was done in three days and was built with various parts from my scrap collection and held together with a mixture of superglue and a hot glue. (Horrible I know, but the outcome wasn't too bad) I gave it a once over with some tamiya white primer, then gave it a few loose coats of Tamiya Nato Black. The finished kit has some places where the paint didn't come through, and you can see some of the hot glue, but the sloppiness isn't far from something Jean himself would create.
Check out youtube for some of his machines, they are very interesting and full of political satire, there is even a museum of him in, if I recall right, is Sweden.
And, so... here are the pictures. I finished this a few quarters ago, and originally wasn't going to post it, but I guess I might as well since it's the only thing resembling a model that I've completed in a few years.
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