Classwork: Armor!

[labricoleuse]

The focus of my graduate seminar has shifted now from masks to armor, and today I gave the first lecture on the subject. I pulled some pieces of armor from our stock to show the students examples of what sorts of things they should be considering for potential projects. They are required to do one simple piece and one more complex piece. "Simple" projects might be a plain medieval helmet or set of greves, whereas "complex" might be an ornamented breastplate or set of articulated gauntlets.

I took some pictures of the stock armor and images i gave them to share with y'all.


These three are acceptable project examples.


Second view of same.


This breastplate is an example, clearly, of what not to do.

In the background are some renderings of "fantasy" examples: Victorian silhouettes rendered in armor for Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba.

Comments

[naeelah.livejournal.com]

Hee, is that second breastplate something you made as a bad example, or is it actually in stock?

[labricoleuse.livejournal.com]

It was actually in stock. No one has ever culled armor stock here, and previous professors of this course may have been less demanding than i, i guess? Or maybe it was for a shoestring budget undergrad production. I dunno. I brought it down because my class is halfway between stock and the dumpster. :)

[martygreene.livejournal.com]

Oh, see my guess was that it was from something where it was supposed to have been created by a character- sort of like the Abraham Lincoln costume in Hair. I figured it was not intended to look real, but more to look halloween costumey or somesuch.