Final Prompt

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Porject 2 Prompt

Bansky Shreds Piece

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Project Prompt #1

Prompt

Syllabus Fall 2018

Syllabus

With a peer look at your 36 x 24 drawing. Discuss the work in detail as is and discuss how it will lead into the larger 4 x 5 foot drawing. Look at it both technically and conceptually. What ideas can be further developed for the final? What should be left behind? How do you best focus your work so that it communicates and asks the questions you want the viewer to consider? How will scale change affect the work?

Take notes and bring me a formal page length typed write up of this discussion on Wednesday along with the 24 x 36 drawing to be graded. Wednesday is a work day. Come ready to work on your project. If you wish to work off site discuss with me first.

Those  who critiqued last for the last project are expected to be ready to show their work first this time. Meaning you need to be ready to go Wed 25 or it will be counted late.

4/16

With a peer look at your 36 x 24 drawing. Discuss the work in detail as is and discuss how it will lead into the larger 4 x 5 foot drawing. Look at it both technically and conceptually. What ideas can be further developed for the final? What should be left behind? How do you best focus your work so that it communicates and asks the questions you want the viewer to consider? How will scale change affect the work?

Take notes and bring me a formal page length typed write up of this discussion on Wednesday along with the 24 x 36 drawing to be graded. Wednesday is a work day. Come ready to work on your project. If you wish to work off site discuss with me first.

Those  who critiqued last for the last project are expected to be ready to show their work first this time. Meaning you need to be ready to go Wed 25 or it will be counted late.

Do not forget about the two visitations due by 4/30.

Hmwrk 3/21

Based on todays discussion of your 24 x 36 piece write out a paragraph or more detailing the ideas you want to explore in the 20 piece series. Wednesday we will begin working on the first piece. You will need to decide what this consists of in terms of sources and materials you bring to class. Do you need a light source, multiple printed references, inks, paints, brushes? Make a list of what you might need and look at it before you come to class.

Breakdown of the rest of the semester

Due Dates:
3/19 24 x 36 drawing based on collage from class, as well as collage made in the
previous class

4/2 Small Series due with Crit. Smaller series must consist of 20 thematic works
that are connected conceptually, formally or ideally both.

4/11 24 x 36 drawing taped together on pad paper

4/25 Final large drawing due with Crit

M 3/19 Critique of Homework with a focus of where to go with the development of the
small series. Students should present their ideas about the drawing along with the work.

W 3/21 Idea development. Paragraph explanation due as homework. This paragraph
or more should flesh out the ideas you intend to explore in the series of works.

Smaller series must consist of 20 thematic works that are connected conceptually,
formally or ideally both.

M 3/26 In class work on small series pieces

W 3/28 In class work on smaller pieces

M 4/2 Small pieces due with Critiques

W 4/4 Crit continued

M 4/9 In class 24 x 36  drawing made in reaction to the previous classes critiques,
This drawing should begin to synthesize ideas from the series into a a final larger
image.

W 4/11  In class work on 24 x 36 mock up drawings will be collected for a grade

M 4/16 Peer crits hang work on the wall with a group and discuss the 24 x 36 drawings.
Notes must be taken and a formal write up of your portion of the critique will be
collected for a grade. Begin work in class on final drawing.

W 4/18 In class workday for Final

M 4/23 In class workday for Final

W 4/25 Critiques

M 4/30 Crit Continued

Each series must contain 20 individual pieces and and each individual piece should
be at least 9 x 12. Do not use crappy paper.

The final piece will be 4 x 5 feet.

Project Explanation and activities on 3/14 and Homework

This project consists of in class research and discussion leading into the development of

thematic ideas for a small series of 20 9 x 12 inch drawings and then produces a large 4 x 5
foot drawing.

You are developing a means to enrich your creative process or work flow by first engaging
your data collection and research skills. Then by investigating the artistic process and
participating in a step by step drawn out method guiding you to the completion of a fully
realized 4 x 5 foot work.  These research skills apply not only to things explicitly found and
googled on the internet but a more complex investigation into your interests, feelings and,
observations as a creative individual and someone who wants a profession developing
objects or images. This involves you actually thinking thoughts and not just drawing what is
laid out in front of you by someone else or copying things from your phone. You will have to
make attempts at new visual connections and experiment with new concepts and forms. For
this I have laid out a schedule for this process of small steps leading into a large final work.
Please keep in mind you are not just redrawing the artist’s work that we started with but taking
pieces of their visual language you connect with and trying to communicate with it. This
ability should apply to every student regardless of intended major. This is directly related to
the process of development you will be expected to engage with in your larger career as an
art student and ultimately into the art studio or design shop.

Today we will have a 20 minute in class discussion with peers about the artists you found
interesting, and why. You will break into groups of 4. Take notes/ make sketches while this
discussion takes place. Below are examples of questions you might ask:

Did they like the same artists?

Did you like different artists?

Did they dislike some of the artists you liked? Why or Why not?

What do these differences mean in regards to your ideas, thoughts, and
taste?

Did you discover something new?

Were old ideas reinforced?

Did you have an interesting thought while looking at the work you would
like to share with the other people around you?

Were you more engaged by content or form in the work?

How does the artist use form to develop content?

If all else fails just read the notes you took on the back of the paper out
loud.

In class create a collage using the images that you brought with you. This collage should
focus on the aspects of the work that you wrote about on the back. Feel free to go out to
make additional copies, and draw/ paint/ work into collage if this is desired. Keep in mind the
ultimate goal is exploring combinations of forms of visual expression these artists use in their
work. The finished collage should be 9 x 12. It will be collected Monday for a grade along with
the homework.

Homework: For homework create a 24 x 36 drawing that is based on the collage
made in class. Further explore the forms of visual expression using your recombining
and experimenting with marks, forms, and ideas. The collage should be used as a
source not as something to copy. I do not want a direct copy. The collage will also be
collected for a grade on Monday.

3/12 Class Work

Begin content and data collection project

Look at ALL artists from the list given below.

Pick five artists whose work you connect with.

Connect means artists whose work you like.

Create five folders on your computer desktop.

Name each folder after one of these artists.

artists.https://support.apple.com/kb/PH25633?locale=en_US

Put 5 works THAT YOU LIKE of each of these artists into the corresponding folder.
Actually look and the work and consider it.

In photoshop or a similar program create 5 8 x 11.5 files.

Put five images on each page in photoshop or similar program.

Put the artists name at the top.

Put images with titles on the page of each artist selected.

Email me a .jpg of each sheet by the end of class time.

My email is: abarkley@temple.edu

Print one sheet with the five paintings for each artist. You should have five sheets.
Bring all five to class on Wednesday.

On the back write what it is that you respond to in the work.
Make in depth notes on what you are responding to in this work.
What do you like? Why did you pick this piece over another?

Consider relationships and similarities present in the work such as:

Mark making

Use of material

Subject matter/ content

Use of color

Use of Shape

Line

Texture

Value

Bring this research with you Wednesday. It will be used in class and you will be counted absent if you do not have it.

Artist List

G. Seurat

E. Degas

A. Giacometti
W. Coldstream
Pablo Picasso
P. P. Rubens
A. Durer
Barry Mcgee
Cai Guo-Qiang
Rackstraw Downes
Walton Ford
Glen Ligon
Elizabeth Murray
Lari Pittman
Diego Rivera
Paul Cezanne
Thomas Eakins
Francisco Goya
Richard Serra
El Greco
Rembrandt
Glen Ligon
William Kentridge
Max Ernst
Otto Dix
Egon Schiele
V. Kandinsky
De Chirico
Braque
Cecily Brown
Jennie Saville
Kathe Kallowitz
Roberto Mata
Arshile Gorky
Cy Twombly

Rico Lebrun

Giovani Tiepolo

Euan Uglow

E. Hopper

Hokusay
Kara Walker

Antonio Lopez Garcia

Lucian Freud

James Ensor
Frank Auerbach
Franz Kline
John Singer Sargent
James Ensor
Paul Gauguin
Mary Cassatt
Hyman Bloom
Kerry James Marshall
Bonnard
Frida Kahlo
Goustave Courbet
Cindy Sherman
Julie Mehretu

Chaim Soutine
Mark Bradford
Steve Powers

Hmwrk #6

Bring your perspective drawings from last week covered in charcoal. They should be quickly blocked in making value choices that indicate space and light changes.

Also, create an 18 x 24 drawing of 10 boxes/ cubes in space. At least two should be stacked. Use tricks discussed in class, such as scale change, overlapping, and line weight, to show spacial illusion. The illusion of space should be strongly considered. The boxes should inhabit the same space. Please make a an interesting well thought through composition and overall drawing. Remember if lines appear to run parallel into the distance in the drawing the lines extending back towards the horizon lines will converge on one point. Use linear perspective when necessary. 

Hmwrk #5

Using the techniques of linear perspective discussed in class take the shapes and ideas from your negative space drawing and create an abstract space that uses linear perspective to create the illusion of depth.

Both drawings will be collected Monday for a grade.

Homework #4

Using the shapes you developed in class today, create an engaging and dynamic drawing that investigates value range, composition, scale, and abstract space. Look at a value scale and make sure that this drawing has a full value range. Overlap the shapes and play with depth.

For this drawing you should tape together two sheets of 18 x 24 paper and create a 24 x 36 sheet paper.

Hmwrk #3

18 x 24 Sketch of the "Classical" side of your 1st project. Due Wednesday.

Collect 20 negative shapes around campus. Bring them on Wednesday.

Also on Wednesday come ready to draw each shape in 10 different ways... 5 should vary in application, 5 should vary in material.

Hmwrk #2

Complete the drawing of the still life in class from memory. This will be collected for a grade.

Project Prompt #1

Prompt

Hmwrk #1 Spring 2018

Make an 18 x 24 drawing in which you use each limb and your mouth for at least 20 minutes. Content is up to you but think about how mark making and experimentation can influence form. Is it a self portrait where you draw each body part with another body part? Is it a nonobjective drawing made while listening and dancing to a favorite album? Also consider the order you choose to work in. Do you start with your dominant hand? or build up to and do detail work with it?

Remember that the drawings we made today were a record you you looking. That this is something you communicate to the viewer beyond simply making a 'refined' image. How can you use timing and mark in concert with the abilities of different limbs to experiment with this idea in this assignment?

Class Syllabus

Syllabus