Final Project Description: Due Last Day of Class Feb 23rd

NO CLASS WEDNESDAY , FEB 11 or MONDAY, FEB 16


Due Next Class, February 18th:

1.Five Bristol Board sheets painted in your five chosen colors
2. A good start on your first composition



 Final Project: 5 Colors, 3 Variations

For our final project, will will use the Matisse’s painted paper collage technique to create three compositions that explore:

visual rhythm

asymmetrical balance

The compositions can use imagery or be abstract. They can use shapes repeated through the use of templates or not.

 You will only use 5 colors (plus white). These same 5 colors will be used across the three compositions.

HW: Time as Change Collage

Divide up a sheet of bristol board in any number and any size compositions

(at least 4, up to as many as will fit on the page)

examples: 

Using one or more templates, trace and cut out shapes from your painted value sheets, to create similar compositions that have progressive changes

to suggest the illusion of motion and the passage of time.

-think about how each composition can suggest motion

-think about how changes between compositions can suggest the passage of time, through changing value, shape, placement, rotation, etc.

-you can use imagery, as long as your shapes are template-based and your “narrative” is told through formal changes.


examples :

Class #9 : Time and Motion

Attention, 

We have a really irregular schedule from here on out. 

Four classes left

Wed feb 4

Monday feb 9

Web feb 18

Monday Feb 23

Class#8 Illusion o Space, HW: Something's Not Right in the World - Due Feb 2

HW: Something’s not Right in the World -Due Feb 2

Materials:Bristol Board, glue, magazines for collaging, pencil and sketchbook for thumbnails, 
6x8 inches or larger on a bristol board sheet

Time: 90 mins- 2 hours


This assignment challenges you to make a image much like the French Surrealist, Rene Magritte,  an illusion of a highly-believable world, in which one thing breaks the rules of believable scale, perspective, overlap, etc., creating a strange, disturbing, uncanny (Surrealistic!) experience.

1.  Create a collage from magazine clippings of a scene, using some of the techniques from the Illusion of Space lesson: 

Scale, Overlap, Linear Perspective, Atmospheric Perspective, Value Contrast, Color Saturation

to create as convincing an illusion of space as possible. Is it an indoor or outdoor setting? Is it day or night? A scene in a kitchen? A NYC streetscene? Some hikers in the himalayas?

Try to make the believeable scene from many separate images. 

2. Once you have established a believable space, add one element that somehow breaks that illusion, 

whether because it’s

 the wrong scale in relation to the other elements, 

it breaks the rules of perspective

or in some other way is completely wrong in the scene.

Tip: The better the illusion of space, the more dramatically that “something not right” will stand out.

Extra Credit: Visit an Exhibition & Analyze

Extra Credit Gallery Visit & Analysis: Worth One HW Assignment
Due by last class, February 23rd. 


Your task is to visit one of the below NYC galleries, take some time with the whole exhibition and answer the following questions about one of the 2-Dimensional works in the show.
You can email me the answers, written out in paragraph form, along with image of the artwork, and a selfie of you in the gallery to prove that you were there to absorb the culture in person.

Note: Make sure you note  the exhibition dates and gallery hours before visiting the show!


Questions:

1. Please list the details of the exhibition; name of artist, exhibition, gallery.

2. Please list the details of the artwork; title, materials, size.

3. Give a general description of the arwork.

4. How is the element of Line used to divide up the compositon, lead the eye through the space, etc?

5. How are the shapes arranged in the space to create unity, and to create visual balance?

6. Talk about the scale relationship of the parts to one another and to the whole image.

7. Does the artist attempt to create an illusion of space? If so, how? 

8. If you were to say that the image is concerned with one design principle above others, which would that be?(Unity, Balance, Scale & Proportion, Contrast &

Emphasis, Rhythm) Please explain.

9. What do these design choices suggest about the meaning of the work?

Djordje Ozbolt More paintings about poets and food at Hauser & Wirth Through FEB 21

http://www.hauserwirth.com/exhibitions/2361/djordje-ozbolt-more-paintings-about-poets-and-food/view/

Hauser & Wirth

32 East 69th Street
New York NY 10021

Gallery hours:

Tuesday – Saturday, 10 am – 6 pm

Location map

Tal -R Cheim & Read

Tal R: Altstadt Girl

January 15 – February 14, 2015

Cheim & Read 547 West 25th Street

Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

http://www.timeout.com/newyork/art/tal-r-altstadt-girl

Agustin Fernandez

Paintings and works on paper January 25 – March 8, 2015
Wed – Sun, 11am – 6pm

http://mitchellalgusgallery.com/standard/ewao-kagoshima/

Parra

Parra
Yer So Bad

Solo Exhibition
557C West 23rd Street

January 8, 2015 through February 7, 2015

HOURS
Tuesday through Saturday, 11am to 6pm

http://jonathanlevinegallery.com/?method=Exhibit.ExhibitDescription&ExhibitID=E07ED4CC-0362-9BE0-AA7D650FCCC92104

Mexican pulp art

http://www.riccomaresca.com/exhibitions-current

Uche Okeke "Works on Paper, 1958-1993" at Skoto Gallery

20 street: 529 W 20 street, floor 5

Ends February 21st, 2015

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Mixed Media: Shaun O'Dell "By Cloud" at Susan Inglett Gallery

24 street: 522 W 24 street

Ends January 31st, 2015

http://www.inglettgallery.com/exhibitions.php

http://nancymargolisgallery.com/

Painting: Heidi Howard "Portraits from 2014" at Nancy Margolis Gallery

25 street: 523 W 25 street

Ends February 14th, 2015

http://marlboroughchelsea.com/chelsea/exhibitions/devin-troy-strother-space-jam

Devin Troy Strother "Space Jam" at Marlborough Gallery (Chelsea)

25 street: 545 W 25 street

Ends February 14th, 2015

http://www.leilahellergallery.com/art.php?e=79&in=0

Ganzeer "ALL AMERICAN" at Leila Heller Gallery

25 street: 568 West 25th Street

Ends February 21st, 2015

http://www.b2oa.com/cullen-washington-jr-space-notifications

Cullen Washington Jr. "Space Notations" at B2OA

26 street: 515 W 26 street, Lower Level

Ends February 21st, 2015

Class#7: Scale and Illusion of Space

Watch the Lecture and then do the HW below for WEDNESDAY, 1/28/15




Exercise/HW:  Abstract Space

Materials:

Micron pens and sharpie

1 sheet bristol board

Use micron pens and Sharpie to create a black and white, ABSTRACT composition, with as real an illusion of space as possible.

The composition should be entirely abstract, no imagery or text whatsoever.It can look very close to a Bridget Riley OP Art painting, an Al Held image, or the composition can be inspired by natural forms, as in the electron microscope images.

Class #5 and 6 Pattern/Texture & Balance

HW #4:

“The Hairy Question Mark”

Surrealist Texture Compositions

Materials: 11x14” bristol board, exacto knife, textures (from magazines and/or rubbings), and glue

Use a combination of  your texture rubbings made by hand and some textures taken from magazines, and create an asymmetrically balanced composition that responds to the surrealist phrase that you pulled from the surrealist title generator.For instance, my own choice:

"Glorious Creamy Guide"

Try not to use actual imagery when making your collages, but feel free to be suggestive of imagery (think of Max Ernst's Frottage Prints….)

Class#4: Shape and Unity

HW#2 The Expanded Square

Materials and Format:

black paper, rubber cement, x-acto knife, sheet of bristol paper (can be oriented

horizontally or vertically)

Assignment:

This assignment is about exploring variations of shape and the relationship of  positive/negative shapes. Beginner artists often focus on just the positive shapes

when composing an image, but this assignment will require you to think simultaneously

about the positive and negative shapes you are creating.

Cut out a 5 inch square from the black paper. The square should be as perfect as

possible -- uneven sides or angles will skew the exercise. Use a T-square or a triangle

to get good 90 degree angles.

Begin cutting out interesting shapes from the side of the square and then flip, rotate, or

slide each piece out. Do not discard any pieces -- every shape you cut out must be

used in the final design. The final design should have a good balance between positive

and negative shapes (not too much white, not too much black), and a lot of visual

interest. You will probably have to start over with a fresh square at least once.

Once you are satisfied with your design, figure out where you want to place it on your

sheet of Bristol board (you can orient the bristol board horizontally or vertically) and

carefully glue all the pieces down with rubber cement.

 

Class #3: MOMA visit

The Museum of Modern Art Feild Trip (to see the Matisse Cutout show).
53rd between 5 and 6th avenue. Meet right inside the entrance between 1:30-1:45.

Bring your Laguardia Student ID, sketchbook, pencil, and HW assignment.

11 W 53rd. E,M to 5av/53rd or B,D,F,M to Rockefeller Center

Class#2: Line and HW# 1

HW#1    LINES & OPPOSITES

Materials and Format: 11x 14 inch Bristol Board, micron pens, sharpie

Following up on your abstract line exploration of an emotion from class,

create two more 5x5” squares using all lines to express opposite emotions or sensations.

The drawings should be as different and evocative of your chosen terms as possible.

Examples are; stressed out/calm, nervous/peaceful, fearful/confident, logical/whimsical, magical/mundane, aggressive/passive, wonderful/dismal,

use two sheets of 11x14 bristol board. With a ruler draw 5” two squares on the page,  as shown below.

Class#1: Introduction