CONCEPTUAL MODELS

Emma Farmer: William Gilpin Concept Model, March 2013, Plastic glasses frame, White paint & Acrylic.

William Gilpin 'Three Essays'
The reading talks about exploring what makes something picturesque. It points out the idea that everyone views things through the eyes of their training, it cannot be narrowed down to one thing, it is the combination of layers that make it beautiful. Picturesque is more than an image, it is an ideal, a lifestyle, an emotion or feeling.

Emma Farmer: Michael King Concept Model, March 2013, Pot plant, MDF board on black card.

Michael King 'The Penguin History of New Zealand'
The reading talks about the New Zealand landscape and mans impact on the land. When NZ was colonized we tried to alter the land to be like the 'English Picturesque'  (rolling meadows). However, in doing this the land deteriorated and we lost not only the english ideal picturesque but NZ native picturesque.

 Emma Farmer: Francis Pound Concept Model, March 2013, Perspex & MDF board.

Francis Pound 'Frames on the Landscape'
The reading talks about the picturesque and how the meaning is "like a picture". There are strict rules for painters, the painting must consist of a foreground, mid-ground and background. objects are re-arranged to fit the 'rules' of picturesque images. Using John Guly's painting the subject (landscape) was abstracted it and used as the frame.

John Gully: Mount Cook, 1872, http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/theme.aspx?irn=941 (accessed 20.03.2013)

 












Geoff Park 'Theatre Country'
The reading talks about the idea of Picturesque being about the 'captured view' more than the view itself. It talks about the Claude Glass and how people would turn their back to the view in order to see it as 'picturesque' in their claude glass. I used a piece of glass to represent this idea of the picturesque being the reflected image. Glass allows images to be reflected while still allowing the image behind to be seen meaning what you view becomes layered, altering the 'picturesque image' you have turned your back to and instead creating a new picturesque. It also draws on the ideas from William Gilpin's reading about the combinations of layers which make the image 'picturesque'.

Emma Farmer: Jeremy Salmond Concept Model, March 2013, MDF board on black card.

Jeremy Salmond 'Old New Zealand Houses'
The reading talks about how New Zealand has no style, all our houses are European copies. However, it talks about the way the NZ 'copies' were built becoming a style in itself due to the emerging "carpenter architects". The essay talks about pre-manufactured parts being attached to the houses simply because they were there. This model draws on that idea or pre-made details being attached without following a particular design asethtic or style of building. "The took the simple 'Georgian' cottage and added American gothix bargeboards and the Anglo Indian Verandah." It is the 'mix-match' of different styles which gave NZ houses their own style.