Last class period we began discussing the relationship between "decision making" and abstraction. We discussed how your ability to make decisions concerning what will be included and what will be excluded in your work is a product of compartmentalization and abstraction. Inclusion/Exclusion, a type of "editing", is similar creatively to the decisions one makes when re-contextualizing images.
Both Tuesday the 5th & Thursday the 7th I will not be in class. You will have a sub and you will be working on a studio project. Attendance is mandatory and role will be taken.
In our newest project we will be appropriating images from the still-life and re-contextualizing them to develop an image based on your creative impulses and ideas.. Your job is to use the objects in the still-life to create a new and abstract rendering of what you see. The limitation is that you cannot use any objects or figures outside of the classroom still-life but the creative freedom comes in the fact that you can manipulate them in any way you see fit.
Your finished drawing should reflect an investigation of the objects, a creative interpretation of how they can be arranged and changed (you can alter the objects in way you see fit: melt, twist, distore, break apart,etc.).You may choose to create an imagery that reflects an awkward placement of the objects. You may decide that you want to create a narrative or organize the objects into a theme. You may decide to create a surrealist image. Whatever you decide to do, the final drawing image must not be a depiction of something that could naturally occur in reality.
In the end, this drawing should be personally interesting and reflect the technical drawing techniques that we have used in class thus far (ideas of gesture, form, value, texture, etc.)
REMEMBER: Please do not forget to post your response to A Brief History of Abstraction due 3/5
Critiques will follow our spring break:
3/19 - Skyler, Victoria, Katelynn, Emily, Brittany, Ross, Nicole, Mike, Tatiana
3/21 - Beverly, Andrea, Isaiah, Joe, Lauren, Amy, Hannah, Stephanie, Sonya
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