Aristotle said that ‘the aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.’ The connection between art and design is often represented in the public. The relationship between these two mediums of creativity is clearly represented in the chairs that sit along the foreshore of the Jindabyne Lake. These seats use both mediums and show the spirit of the mountainous area and the environment that surrounds it. There are intelligible affiliations between art and design, clearly communicated through the practical art that is on the Jindabyne Lake foreshore.
The first of these seats is the ‘Ski Chair Memorial’. Erected in memory of Oscar Luhn, who was a victim of the 1997 Thredbo landslide. Oscar was a long-term employee of Thredbo in Kosciuszko National Park; he lived in Bumbadeen and died in a road collapse. He worked in …show more content…
The three seats that lie on the Lake Jindabyne foreshore, the memorial seat, the Wrath of the Black Diamond and the mosaic seat epitomize this relationship between the two expressive mediums. Through the use of art, colour, and creativity and practicality, these seats were produced so that passers by may sit and watch the lake and its beautiful surrounding throughout the day without them standing out in an outlandish fashion. These seats unite the two channels of art and design, presenting the beautiful way they can come together to create seats that, though different, each stage a different side of the community. Through the memorial, the remembrance of the past as they move into the future, through the Wrath of the Black Diamond is the fun and adrenaline rushing side of the mountains and through the mosaic seat, the organic and natural side of the Snowy mountains. These seats communicate to the viewers and have a purpose, they are the essence of the kinship between art and
The first of these seats is the ‘Ski Chair Memorial’. Erected in memory of Oscar Luhn, who was a victim of the 1997 Thredbo landslide. Oscar was a long-term employee of Thredbo in Kosciuszko National Park; he lived in Bumbadeen and died in a road collapse. He worked in …show more content…
The three seats that lie on the Lake Jindabyne foreshore, the memorial seat, the Wrath of the Black Diamond and the mosaic seat epitomize this relationship between the two expressive mediums. Through the use of art, colour, and creativity and practicality, these seats were produced so that passers by may sit and watch the lake and its beautiful surrounding throughout the day without them standing out in an outlandish fashion. These seats unite the two channels of art and design, presenting the beautiful way they can come together to create seats that, though different, each stage a different side of the community. Through the memorial, the remembrance of the past as they move into the future, through the Wrath of the Black Diamond is the fun and adrenaline rushing side of the mountains and through the mosaic seat, the organic and natural side of the Snowy mountains. These seats communicate to the viewers and have a purpose, they are the essence of the kinship between art and