Forest Devils' Moon Night
Photograph
1991 (made)
1991 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Snelson uses the computer to create imaginary three-dimensional scenes. This print shows an otherworldly landscape, with four large sculptures. The sculptures are copies of a real work, entitled 'Forest Devil', which is sited in Mellon Square, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Snelson describes the process of constructing the sculptures on the computer as being analogous to that of creating a real, three-dimensional sculpture. Snelson textured-mapped the landscape and created the effect of shadows using ray-tracing.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Forest Devils' Moon Night (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | C-type print |
| Brief description | C-type colour photographic print, 'Forest Devils' Moon Night', by Kenneth Snelson, 1991 |
| Physical description | C-type colour print of a computer-generated image, depicting one of the artist's distinctive sculptures within a landscape. The sculpture consists of hollow rigid pipes and flexible cables wich together create a push and pull equilibrium and thus the necessary tension to become a firm structure. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Artist's name and contact details (In pen on reverse of image, upper left corner.) |
| Credit line | Given by the American Friends of the V&A through the generosity of Patric Prince |
| Object history | AAD/2009/19/15/2 contains a stereo viewer with two 35mm slides of 'Forest Devils' Moon Night' |
| Production | Attribution note: In a letter from the artist to Patric Prince (dated 23/04/1992) Snelson writes "The picture was made with the use of Silicon Graphics 4D-25 computer and Wavefront Technologies software. I hope that whoever studies this work in future days will consider how relatively primitive were the systems we artists were working with back in the '90s" |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Summary | Snelson uses the computer to create imaginary three-dimensional scenes. This print shows an otherworldly landscape, with four large sculptures. The sculptures are copies of a real work, entitled 'Forest Devil', which is sited in Mellon Square, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Snelson describes the process of constructing the sculptures on the computer as being analogous to that of creating a real, three-dimensional sculpture. Snelson textured-mapped the landscape and created the effect of shadows using ray-tracing. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.1046-2008 |
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| Record created | April 1, 2009 |
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