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Alejos’ best photographs succeed for reasons as diverse as his subject matter. Lighting is what makes “San Juan de Dios Hospital” a great photograph—the sun comes from three large windows, bounces off the plaster walls, and illuminates each immaculate hospital bed with gradually increasing intensity towards the back of the room. As the hospital beds recede, the hospital employees arc out from the rear of the room towards us, and their dress changes from the dark suits in the rear to white robes in the front...
...methods. A composition of schematic figures was worked out, then in the studio his models assumed the dramatic attitudes required-poses that must have been hard to sustain, and had to be recorded rapidly. The final designs, scaled up on large pieces of paper, were transferred onto the wet plaster by dusting charcoal through the pinpricked outlines, or by cutting along them. The ceiling's highly complex scheme includes the creation of the world, the fall of man, a parade of figures who foretold the coming of Christ, and many purely decorative nude men, known as ignudi. Michelangelo studied...
...even takes pictures of that," marveled one official when Yu was out of earshot. Driving through town Yu passed a cluster of empty villas, waiting for the lakeside they'd overlook. Nearby, on a fenced-off piece of grass grazed an elephant and a giraffe, both made of plaster...
...sculpture table. “My project is based on the idea of modularity of the body,” Yin, a fourth year Graduate School of Design (GSD) student, explains as she globs more silicone onto several damaged fingers. Her classmates are similarly engaged: Dismembered plaster torsos, a plump balloon-hand dripping silicone, and strangely solitary feet and toes litter the studio floor.Surrounded by severed body parts, the students of VES 130r: “Criticality, the Body and ‘Other’ Things” are exploring the body as a “physical, cultural...
...could technically move in anytime, but the loud fans, plaster, and dust made it inconvenient and uncomfortable,” said Mishra...