There are some artists which produce work which is great and somehow edges a place in my research for this project but something makes me think that it doesn't quite sit right. The common way to think about 3D is as a physical object you can hold, twist, turn - it has faces, sides, surfaces whatever you want to call them but there are some people who would class the examples I will show as being 3D even though they somewhat go against what I just said.
Simon Schubert
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| [Source] http://tigerprint.typepad.com/tigerprint/2009/05/simon-schubert.html |
Is work like this really classed as 3D? Some people would say yes, others would say no and well I would say no. I don't think you can class this type of paper manipulation as 3D because it is more of an optical illusion and although areas of the paper may be a little raised by the effect it still isn't to me a 3D piece.
To me embossing, debossing or etching are not forms of creating 3D elements within pieces or work but more of a 2D decorative feature.
Rob Ryan
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Some people also seem to think that 2D paper artists such as Rob Ryan are 3D artists when they are not, this is simply because it doesn't, because it isn't 3D work until it is used in some way such as being bent into a shape or layered etc.
Jen Stark
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| [Source] http://www.jenstark.com/ |
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| [Source] http://www.jenstark.com/ |
Optical illusion is I think the most common thing to get confused as being 3D because that is really the point of it half the time but optical iiusion itself is not a 3D form of art, however, Jen Stark's work is both optical illusion and 3D which is great. She uses laters and layers of paper to create the illusion effect and it works well.
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| [Source] http://www.jenstark.com/ |
This example is different to her other work as you can clearly see it is 3D but the illusion comes with the depth of it with a mirror behind the boxes and then I assume that when you look from a straight on angle it would appear as a flat white square.
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| [Source] http://www.jenstark.com/ |
I like the idea of this piece but with this and all Stark's other work I wouldn't know how or where to use it and here I am just using it to explain a point of view.
Overall, even though all the ideas here are not 3D there may be some possibility to use them in my work to create extra effects especially in areas where I may not be able to create 3D; for example I could use embossing on an area of the graphics covering the 3D piece.
