Lockheed Lounge Analysis
Year 11 Visual Arts
Explain how the Lockheed Lounge can be considered an artwork?
Art is the process of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. The Lockheed Lounge, by Marc Newson, portrays the inspiration from the aerospace industry and mercury idea. The main features of the artwork involve the shape and texture produced, which create another meaning to art.
The Lockheed Lounge demonstrates the very unique shape of its freeform ideal of art combined with the concept of a functional object of the lounge. Newson’s image of a fluid metallic form of the giant blob of mercury was his inspiration to design this lounge. This 3D form was produced by hammering hundreds of aluminium panels onto a home-made
Explain how the Lockheed Lounge can be considered an artwork?
Art is the process of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. The Lockheed Lounge, by Marc Newson, portrays the inspiration from the aerospace industry and mercury idea. The main features of the artwork involve the shape and texture produced, which create another meaning to art.
The Lockheed Lounge demonstrates the very unique shape of its freeform ideal of art combined with the concept of a functional object of the lounge. Newson’s image of a fluid metallic form of the giant blob of mercury was his inspiration to design this lounge. This 3D form was produced by hammering hundreds of aluminium panels onto a home-made