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INFLUENCES
I joined a trip to London and visited TateBritain where they have John Cecil Stephenson's 'painting1'. Amongst the other artists work this one stood out to me as it captured the look of my 'AVIWorld' as when I imagined it.
What I liked was the gravity defing shapes, just hovering in space. The arrangement of shape was almost chaotic but the composistion is definately precise.
When I saw this particular piece it wasnt hard for me to imagine my AVI's mapped onto the shapes. I could imagine 'NO ENTRY' signs and buildings placed into space, with no care of perspective or scale with 'our world'. I wasnt really considering the colour or texture(which I'm sure were both as precise as the composition), purely the arrangement of shape.

John Cecil STEPHENSON

"Painter in oils,

tempera and watercolour; also goldsmith, enameller and furniture designer. Born 15 September 1889 at Bishop Auckland, Durham. Contemplated a musical career, but decided to study at Leeds School of Art 1908–14, the R.C.A. 1914–18 and the Slade School 1918; also in Paris and Italy. Worked in a naturalistic style, producing watercolour landscapes and oil portraits until 1932, when he turned to abstract painting. Taught at the Northern Polytechnic 1922–55. Exhibited with the 7 & 5 Society 1934, and with the London Group 1953–9. Married his second wife, the painter Kathleen Guthrie, 1941. Member of the Hampstead Artists Council 1945, of the Free Painters 1959 and of the A.I.A. 1961. Designed a mural for the Festival of Britain 1951, and prize-winning ply-glass mural window for the British Industrial Pavilion at the Brussels International Exhibition 1958. Other designs for Ply Glass Ltd are in the Engineering School of Queen Mary College, London, Solar House, Rickmansworth, and elsewhere in England and abroad."

Tate Online - http://www.tate.org.uk/

'PAINTING1'John Cecil Stephenson http://www.tate.org.uk/

'TROY'S-JCS3DSMAXT'
After further study of John Cecil Stephenson's work I thought I'd try and reproduce his 'Painting1' piece using 3DSTUDIOMAX. The idea came from wanting to be able to see his work from another angle, trying to understand the depth of viewpoint. I imagine the shapes to be layered on top of one another and hovering independantly.
The first one I re-created I made sure to use a panning camera viewpoint, basicly so that I could show my interpretation of depth of the piece. Next I mapped some JPG's Ive collected of signs in the street(mainly because invisioned it when first saw the work and wanted to see what it looked like 3Dimensionally.

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