Berlin Street Art

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Ian Kiaer

Title: The First City
Work Type: sculpture
Date of work: 1998
Style Period: contemporary art
Technique: assemblage


Does it matter at what scale i construct my installations, how would they be best represented in terms of size, and would they be more successful as a different size? test my accusations by experimenting with scale.

Jackson Webb - Party Painting Three

Title: Party Painting Three
Work Type: sculpture
Date of work: 2006
Materials: medium: oil on linen, daylight bulb, watercolour on paper, plywood
Measurements: height: 126 cm - width: 70 cm - depth: 24 cm
Style Period: contemporary art
Technique: construction, painting

Jackson Webb - Hippopotamuse

Title: Hippopotamuse
Work Type: sculpture
Date of work: 2006
Materials: medium: watercolour, paper, tape, plywood, cocobolo, ebony, purple-tack
Measurements: height: 72 cm - width: 87 cm - depth: 17 cm
Style Period: contemporary art
Technique: construction, painting

Jackson Webb's 'Hippopotamuse' among other things represents the close link between sculpture and painting. Would including more than one creative technique add anything to my practice? How would it effect it, and how could I incorporate multiple medium's succesfully into an individual piece?

Facteur Cheval

Artist - Facteur Cheval
Title - Palais Ideal (Perfect Palace)
Location - Hauterives, France

Facteur Cheval was a mild-mannered mailman by day and a wildly inspired pseudo-architect and builder by night. His strange architectural masterpiece Palais Ideal, took him decades to construct and was finished in the early 1900s after 10,000 days of solemn construction. He had no formal design or construction training and learned as he went.

Nikolai Sutyagin

Artist - Nikolai Sutyagin
Title - Untitled
Location - Archangelsk, Russia

Nikolai Sutyagin started this amazing wooden skyscraper as a simple two-story structure, then just kept building. The building now stands 13 stories (144 feet) tall and is under threat of demolition out of safety concerns by authorities.