Week 3

Your instructor will be in Richmond, VA for the entire week, installing her artwork . You will be required to come to class this week to work together as a group, as it is important to share ideas and materials between yourselves. You will be required to complete both assignments for critique next Tuesday. Feel free to email any questions and I will respond within 24 hrs.

Be prepared to research/read for one hour per project. The actual projects should have at least three hours of work time invested in each. IT WILL BE EVIDENT if you do not fully invest the time in these projects.

Tuesday 9/10: Shape Project (8x10)

• Choose a significant painting by an artist from the list below. Be sure you choose one that you are very attracted to. Print it out in color (8x10) for reference and save it for critique. 
• Remember that the painting you choose to work with will be translated through collage and in addition to that, only a portion of the work chosen needs to be evaluated by your “zooming in” and focusing on a section of the image. 
• Try to discover a suitable composition and use only a few types of shapes to render your project. Recreate the "cropped" portion of the painting using only shapes of solid colored construction paper.

Van Gogh

De Chirico
Rosso Fiorentino
Picasso (rose period)
Marc Chagall
Matisse
August Macke
Oskar Kokoschka
Boccioni
Cabanel
Egon Schiele
Edward Hopper
Andy Warhol

Man Ray

Homework:
Read Mary Stewart's Launching the Imagination: CH1 Section on Textures  (pp. 23-27)

Thursday 9/12: Texture Project (8x10)

• Explore all of the textures in your immediate surroundings. Using white paper and a variety of colored pencils, create rubbings (as described in your chapter) of an array of textures (20 or more). 
• Then, peruse old magazines and collect an array of visual textures (not pictures--swathes of texture). 
• Finally, scour your surroundings for flat but textural materials (sandpaper, fabric, tinfoil). 
• Once you have a nice array of textures to work with, create an original 8x10 collage using the three types of textures described in your reading.
• Your artwork can be a self portrait, or an abstract composition as long as it is original. 
• You may work from a photograph of yourself or a photograph of an abstraction that you took yourself for reference. Bring the reference photo to critique next Tuesday.
• Research Gustavo Oritz  and  Romare Bearden for inspiration.

 

TOOLS:  Construction Paper, Glue, Scissors, X-acto Knife, Colored Pencils, 11x14 Sketchpad