Comments on: Jonty Hurwitz's sculptures reveal themselves in a cylindrical mirror

By: Bruno

Bruno — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:00:00 +0000

off-topic promotion

By: the_dannobot

the_dannobot — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:01:00 +0000

Cool! There is a local Ghent beer Gruut that has something similar… Every Belgian beer is served in it’s own glass, this particular beer the glass has a little mirror on it, and comes with a special coaster. The coaster has a design on it that when you line it up with the glass, the reflection in the mirror is a girl striking a pose
The beer is really good too ;)

By: SCK

SCK — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:45:00 +0000

Really? You think so? My comment was on the artistic quality of work utilizing optical effects, and not concerned with the objects’ nature as three-dimensional or not.

By: Once Dead Flesh

Once Dead Flesh — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 06:42:00 +0000

i prefer smeared pain to subversive art… sorry.

By: CJR

CJR — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 05:45:00 +0000

Yes – this was classic way to do subversive paintings – from the politically subversive to the pornographic. The paintings looked like smeared pain until you put the reflective cylinder in the center and looked at the reflection – then poof, a painting of the House of Lancaster hidden from Cromwell’s men! I first saw this during an episode of Lovejoy Mysteries…

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 04:05:00 +0000

I like this, but I love Robert Lazzarini's work.

By: swankgd

swankgd — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 01:31:00 +0000

Salvador Dali made several of these.

By: timquinn

timquinn — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:58:00 +0000

Here is a big clue for you new comers to art gazing; “art is not a competition.” You may use it as a mantra if it helps to keep it in mind.

By: timquinn

timquinn — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:57:00 +0000

not 3-d. nice try, come again.

By: Mark_Frauenfelder

Mark_Frauenfelder — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:06:00 +0000

I like this Escher woodcut a lot: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B5Ju42B_JdE/T-E6v7ijsvI/AAAAAAAABt0/k_EKMGMs2aQ/s1600/escher,+m+c+puddle+1952.jpg

By: TheOven

TheOven — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:00:00 +0000

Nice but why model the back side? Seems what they did was stretch an existing 3D model and just 3d printed it.

EDIT: Now that I’ve checked out his other work, I can see that the whole of the pieces (the frog is the least interesting to me) work very well in 3D as their own objects. That they form a picture in a reflection is also neat, but the sculptures are quite interesting alone.

By: jimkirk

jimkirk — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:23:00 +0000

This is calling out for some 3D printer object manipulation.

By: Digilante

Digilante — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:29:00 +0000

I recommend a review of the works of the South African artist William Kentridge if you like this sort of thing.

By: Mark_Frauenfelder

Mark_Frauenfelder — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:58:00 +0000

Supposebly you read the post?

By: noahmckinnon

noahmckinnon — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:16:00 +0000

Pretty of the same reaction I have when I see an Escher. Neat, but not much more than a technical exercise.

By: victorriviera

victorriviera — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:11:00 +0000

Well this is ooooold already, maybe you should take a walk at the viennes museum of historical art- was already done way earlier in baroque times AND it was done by hand at that times, it is called “anamorphic painting” started in 1533 with Hans Hohlbein supposebly- maybe even earlier…
http://nvmdblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/anamorphezeichnung2.jpg?w=632

By: theophrastvs

theophrastvs — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:33:00 +0000

impressive effort. (i think it was a popular parlor amusement back in the heady zoetrope days) unfortunately, still can’t circle the mirror around the sculpture to play ‘rotate the frog’.

By: euansmith

euansmith — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:29:00 +0000

I’ve seen painting of Charles Edward Stewart (the patron saint of wife beating drunkards) like this; created to allow clandestine veneration of their subject, but where is Hypno-toad the subject of an authoritarian crackdown?