My interest in functional art is shown through six different artworks. I wanted to use my pieces to show that they can be both functional and artistic. These artworks demonstrate the functionality of a knife. I chose the knife because it is one of the handy tools I use to create all metal objects.
I choose the artworks to exhibit because they share the same tool, a knife. My two-dimensional artworks show the functionality behind knives being used to create artworks. My three-dimensional works were primarily created to show how in addition to being used, knives could also be works of art. I took this a step further by connecting the work of art side and functionality side of knives by using the carving knife displayed on the bottom left I made to create the wooden spoon. I choose the materials and techniques of my pieces based on the previous artworks that I had completed to be able to use the functionality of those artworks as inspiration or directly to create the next pieces. I have done a lot of metalworking outside of this class so I also wanted to learn other techniques such as burnishing colored pencils and realistic drawings, so I incorporated them into my artworks.
I have my pieces arranged so that they flow from functional but artistic knives made to pieces made with those knives to pieces inspired by those knives. I knew that the two-dimensional pieces would take up the majority of the exhibits so I wanted to balance them on opposite corners and use the rest of the pieces to shift the balance more towards the top to make it feel more natural. I didn’t do this with the size of the pieces but rather with the materials of them as the steel knife looks much heavier than the small wooden spoon, giving it more weight even though it’s the same size. I used the anvil that I used to create the pieces as a pedestal for the top row of artworks and propped the bottom row against wooden planks that the anvil sits on.
I choose the artworks to exhibit because they share the same tool, a knife. My two-dimensional artworks show the functionality behind knives being used to create artworks. My three-dimensional works were primarily created to show how in addition to being used, knives could also be works of art. I took this a step further by connecting the work of art side and functionality side of knives by using the carving knife displayed on the bottom left I made to create the wooden spoon. I choose the materials and techniques of my pieces based on the previous artworks that I had completed to be able to use the functionality of those artworks as inspiration or directly to create the next pieces. I have done a lot of metalworking outside of this class so I also wanted to learn other techniques such as burnishing colored pencils and realistic drawings, so I incorporated them into my artworks.
I have my pieces arranged so that they flow from functional but artistic knives made to pieces made with those knives to pieces inspired by those knives. I knew that the two-dimensional pieces would take up the majority of the exhibits so I wanted to balance them on opposite corners and use the rest of the pieces to shift the balance more towards the top to make it feel more natural. I didn’t do this with the size of the pieces but rather with the materials of them as the steel knife looks much heavier than the small wooden spoon, giving it more weight even though it’s the same size. I used the anvil that I used to create the pieces as a pedestal for the top row of artworks and propped the bottom row against wooden planks that the anvil sits on.