For our project my group and I have decided to create boxes that depict some of the Greek myths that interest us in particular. The myths that we have chosen are, the myth of Narcissus, the myth of Medusa, the myth of BLANK, and the myth of Aphrodite. We hope to show their mythical stories through each of our own personal artistic styles using paper in a 3D way.
The first Greek myth that our group will cover is the story of Narcissus. Summer will be the one who will create the art piece that will represent this Greek myth. The story of Narcissus is that he was an extremely handsome man who turns every woman away and gets cursed to fall in love with himself. Summer will create the art for this myth. The myth of Medusa is about an extremely beautiful girl who is extremely vain and Athena strips her of her beauty and makes it so that every man who looks at her turns to stone. Milan will be the one who will represent this myth in her art. They story of Pandora’s box is about Pandora being set to get married with a box given to her by her father. She is told not to open it, but does and accidentally releases all of the bad things into the world. Maira will create her art piece on this story and the legend of Aphrodite is about how she rose from the ocean and emerged from a clam and all of the men who see her fall in love with her because she is so beautiful. This will be the myth that I will represent in my art piece I will create.
For my art piece, I hope to create my interpretation of the famous painting of Aphrodite being born from a clam from the ocean. I would also like to include in the scene, Aphrodite stepping out of the giant clam and onto the land and to have flowers springing up beneath her foot. This was an element of her myth that is not shown in the real painting that I would like to include because it was one of the elements that I found particularly intriguing. I would also like to create a few of the fish paper sculptures to include in the ocean background and use a real shell that I would purchase for Aphrodite to emerge from.
Finally, I will try to incorporate intricate “doodles” such as the examples above into the pattern of as much items I create as I can.
