Pick up Work

Class,
Sorry I have been late in getting back to you about the work.
I will put the work out in the hallway on TH after 1pm if I get an email from you that you can pick it up. If I don't hear from you I will KEEP the work and not discard it.

I will return to MassArt in April but it will be safe in my office. If you can come at a later date in Jan. let me know and I will set the work aside for you in the office.

Have a great holiday!

HOMEWORK THIS WEEK

Shazia Sikander
Make 10+ images relating to your response to the book.
Come up with 3 questions you have about the book or your work or your ideas.

****This is a PROCESS your idea may change and if you are truly engaged with the work things will change and EVOLVE. If you have more than one idea that is ok bring ideas to class.

Things to do and bring next week:

- Journal/sketches/notes-As you are reading jot down notes on ideas about the book and anything else you are researching. The ideas you derive may or may not relate to the author’s intended meaning. The ideas are your particular interpretation of the reading. What are you responding to most strongly?

- Collect Source material -collect source/reference drawings from the reading, objects and needed material to express your response.

- List of possible formats and mediums:
Photography, collage digital or traditional Painting
Computer-assisted work Installation

TIMELINE:
M DEC. 3 Individual and Small Group Meetings
M DEc. 10 Final Critique and Project Due

Bones of the Master-Amazon

I hear the MassArt bookstore does not carry the book anymore. If you have not purchased it yet Amazon does sell it. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/102-2571202-3919343?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Bones+of+the+Master&x=0&y=0

Bones of the Master

Project Description:
Develop a project with an idea you have derived from Bones of the Master. The format, media and scale of this project will build on formal elements of 2 design and process. This project will be described through a Series.

Series: A number of similar or related things coming one after another. 3-5 images.

Homework: Read Bones of the Master
Post responses on your blog: Due M Nov. 26

List 15 words to describe the story:

What colors do you see when you read the book?


What specific scene or event stands out for you? Why?


What stands out in your mind when thinking about Tsung Tsai ?

Visually?
Thematically?
or anything else?

What stands out in your mind when thinking about other characters?


Visually?
Thematically?
or anything else?

Timeline:

M Nov. 26 Individual Meetings and Project Proposal (post on blog)
(Bring sketches, Source material to meeting)
M Dec. 3 Small Group Process Critiques
M Dec. 11 Final Critique Project Due

Guidelines:

1. Research- Historical Context of book.

-1945 Treaty of Yalta
-1947 Chinese Declare Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region
-2006 Declaration of Independence of the Nations of High Asia

View Kundun-film about Tibet’s Dalai Lama

Other Sources:

My Land & My People- Dalai Lama
Prisoners of Shangri-La-Donald Lopez
War Talk-Arundhati Roy

http://intermongol.net/diaspora/index.html

2. Journal/sketches/notes-As you are reading jot down notes on ideas about the book and anything else you are researching. The ideas you derive may or may not relate to the author’s intended meaning. The ideas are your particular interpretation of the reading. What are you responding to most strongly?

3. Collect Source material -collect source/reference drawings from the reading, objects and needed material to express your response.

4. List of possible formats and mediums:

Photography, collage digital or traditional Painting
Computer-assisted work Installation

ONE MORE CHANCE TO SEE PAINTER!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tibetan Painter, Pema Rinzin will do his last presentation TH (tomorrow) at 11am in the Brant Gallery.
Topic: Getting Color from Mineral Pigments.

ICA DESIGN LIFE NOW

The objective of this exercise is to explore the exhibition at the ICA:
Design Life Now.
ICA: http://www.icaboston.org/
Hours- Tuesday and Wednesday 10 am – 5pm, Thursday and Friday 10 am – 9pm
Saturday and Sunday, 10 am - 5 pm Closed Mon. Veterans Day

Part I: Choose one work from an artist or design firm from the exhibit.

Title: _______________________________________________________

Artist/s______________________________________________________

a. Immediate Response-What are your immediate responses? (These are uncensored, irrational, un-self-conscious impressions of the work; what you notice first, what stands out.)

b. Objective Description-Describe the work to a blind person.

c. Formal Matters-Use 2d Principles and Vocabulary (Refer to Vocabulary list-use 4-6 minimum words)

e. The Story It Tells-Does the work tell a story?

f. The Work in the World-How does it connect to the rest of the world/art/history?

Answer these Questions (Refer to page 126 in The Critique Handbook)

POST ON BLOG: 4 paragraph minimum.
DUE : Mon. NOV. 12


g. Make 10 sketches, drawings in response to the work.
( no smaller than 8x10)

Part II: Studio Response
You will respond to the artwork you chose by expanding the idea of the original work or creating a different response to the same idea, or working in “the style of” your artist. You may work in a traditional medium or digital or a combination of both.

-Create 3-5 images for this studio response.

-Journal, Notes, Sketches-PROCESS WORK
To be presented with studio work

DUE: Mon. NOV. 19

THE SUBJECT IS COLOR

The objective of this exercise is to explore and expand Color in the original artwork from the Gardner Museum. You will deconstruct color in the image and create a completely new image inspired by the color in the original work.

Part A: Research

1. Scan High Resolution (300dpi) Gardner Museum Image from a book.

Name of Book:

Artist:

Title of Artwork:

2. Create a grid of swatches sampled from the work you have chosen.
For example: you could have a grid of 12, 9 colors or 6 but not less than 6.

3. Organize these swatches in a way that represents dominance or larger areas of color in the composition.

4. Print Out Image (8x10”) and Post on Blog.

Part B:

1. Locate surfaces and colors in the natural environment that correspond to your color sample. These surfaces can be created with paint, pencils, pastels or pens. Surfaces can also be found, ie walls, book pages, plants etc.

2. Create a grid of these color samples.
If you have a grid of 6 in Part A, make a grid of 6 in this exercise.

3. Organize these swatches in a way that represents dominance or larger areas of color in the composition.

4. Bring to class.

Part C:

These exercises have helped you decide how color is working in your original image and this will inform how you approach creating a completely new image with color as the subject.

1. Create a new image outer dimensions at least 11x17.
2. Image can be created traditionally, on a digital canvas or a combination.


DUE: MON. OCT. 29: 2 GRIDS AND 1 NEW COMPOSITION

COLOR VOCABULARY

Color-The visual response to different wavelengths of sunlight identified as red, green , blue etc…
Pigment-Substance or matter used as coloring, many are derived from minerals and plants
Hue or Chromatic Hues- Name of the color
Value- Lightness or darkness of a color
Intensity- Colors purity or grayness
Temperature- Its warmness or coolness
Warm Colors- Red, Yellow, Orange on the color wheel. Warm colors tend to advance visually.
Cool Colors-Blue, Violet, Blue or Green. Cool colors tend to recede spatially.
Monochromatic- Anything having a single hue
Neutral or Achromatic Hues-Color resulting after two compliments have been mixed that neither color is evident.
Primary Color-preliminary hues that cannot be broken down or reduced into other colors.
Secondary Color-Color produced by a mixture of two primary colors.
Subtractive Color- Sensation of color that is produced when wavelengths of light are reflected back to the viewer. Color in Painting
Subtractive Primaries: RED, YELLOW, BLUE
Subtractive Secondary: ORANGE, GREEN, VIOLET
Additive Color-Colors whose hue is established by combining monochromatic light sources
Additive Primaries: RED, GREEN, BLUE
Additive Secondary: CYAN, YELLOW, MAGENTA