GEOMETRIC SHAPES

George W. Hart

From left to right, the three balls were made of 180 spoons in six colors, 150 knives in three colors, and 240 forks in six colors.

There were three very different arrangements, but all with the same symmetry.

No Picnic(variable dimensions, up to 16

feet in length)

240 forks

Disk Combobulation Ian assemblage of thirty 3.5 inch floppy diskettes

72 Pencils is a geometric construction of 72 pencils, assembled into a work of art.

The form is an arrangement of four intersecting hexagonal tubes that penetrate each other in a fascinating three-dimensional lattice.

Each of the sculptures in the edition is constructed with a different type of pencil, so each is a one-of-a-kind object.

The one is made with CMYK pencils.

Jeff Rutzky, an NYC designer who often works with printers in the CMYK color space, commissioned this special instance of the sculpture with those four colors.

Commissioned by John Sullivan, with specially printed ISAMA pencils. The view shows how it looks along a three-fold axis of symmetry.

Sculptures are passive devices to help demonstrate certain conditions of seeing light and three-dimensional space such as drawing perceptual equivalency between light and matter.

These geometric “solids” reflect and absorb light in specific, discrete ratios that minimize ambiguities that might arise from depicting anything.

Richard Harrington

Dodecahedron, 2011

http://berkshirereview.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/RH_0156.jpg

Bert Flugelman

The Cones, 1970sstainless steel geometric sculptures

Student Work

Cube

Cone

Cylinder

Geometric Shapes

TetrahedronCube

Dodecahedron

Icosahedron

Octahedron

Platonic

Solids

Cuboctahedron

Icosidodecahedron Truncated Tetra

hedron

Truncated Octahedron

Truncated Cube

Archimedean Solids

Truncated Dodecahedron

Rhombicuboctahedron

Truncated Octahedron

References

Altes, G. K. (2012, August 17). Paper Models of Polyhedra . Retrieved from http://www.korthalsaltes.com

Harrington, R. (2011). Richard Harrington, ZERO SUM Greylock Arts, Adams, Massachusetts, autumn, 2011: A Word from the

Artist. Retrieved from http://berkshirereview.net/2011/12/12/zero-sum-greylock-arts-adams- massachusetts-

autumn-2011- richard-harrington/

Hart, G. W. (2004). George W. Hart . Retrieved from http://www.georgehart.com/