Today's Class- Tonight we started a new graded project, a mixed media collage partly inspired by the Dada movement. We also looked at the related text design projects (Russian words) from a few weeks ago, and critiqued a few late arriving projects.
How to make this up- Two things associated with the Dada art movement were the use of the collage and random chance. Our project started with students choosing random words from two bags to form a phrase. That phrase is the theme of your collage. Once you have a theme, come up with a visual adaptation of the concept, using a combination of collaged images (magazines, etc), painted elements, and drawn elements, in addition to the drawn words that inspired it. The example above is called "City of Zoo", and the one below is "Everything Turns to Thinking." This should not just be a collection of stuff glued to the paper, but think of it as a two dimensional work of art, and make use of everything we've dealt with in the class- shape, composition, color, texture, balance, value, etc.
The first step is to get your theme. You may either e-mail me to request it, and I'll pick the words for you and send you the result, or wait until next week's class and pick them yourself. Further instructions and several additional student examples can be found here.
This graded mixed media collage is due at the beginning of class on December 5, 2013.
Homework- The limited palettes project begun last week is due at the beginning of class on November 21, 2013.
Those who still owe the color temperature project (which is almost everybody) should turn them in as soon as possible to receive partial credit.
For next class 11/21/13- We'll be doing a semester portfolio exercise involving still life painting. Bring your 18" x 24" pad, pencil and eraser, and all your painting materials.
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