| syllabus
monday
syllabus
tuesday
projects
requirements
vocabulary
tools
critique
help
email
info
links |
weeks
6-9
These are three short assignments that continue your explorations of visual
vocabulary and experimentation with digital imaging. We will focus in
this project on composition, color, and defining the terms space and place.
Choose a place that interests you. You haven't been here for long. Find
a place near to school (within 2 blocks or so) that you want to explore
visually… It can be a street corner, bathroom, store, classroom,
park, stream, sky, patch of dirt, bureau drawer, anything you want.
Questions:
What is place? How does one represent one's connection to place? How is
sound, weather, time, era, locale, etc., all a part of place? How are
we influenced by the places which we inhabit?
What is the significance of context in making art? How does the specific
materials and places of your work’s dissemination affect images?
What is your audience?
Project
5 Collecting place (one week)
a. Read: Art Fundamentals Chapter 6 Color
b. Shoot at least 50 images of this place from vastly different perspectives,
distances, approaches as you can think of.
Explore the range of these fundamental compositional strategies and how
different approaches with them can change the meaning of the image
c. Shoot your place at different types of day and explore the different
colors that the place becomes. You must go to your place during at least
three-five times of day or types of light (sunny mid-day, dawn, rain,
twilight, tungsten light, fluorescent light, etc.)
d. Analyze and choose at least 3 different color relationships to print.
e. ring at least 9 images printed out to look at in class
Project
6 (one week)
Develop your ideas about your place in five works that explore your place
through a focused look at color as a fundamental element
Complete the research project and think about the relationship between
the work you are inspired by and your place project
Project
7 (one week)
Complete your project about place. Project should include at least 3-5
images
Project should be conceived as a piece for a specific audience and for
dissemination to that audience (mailboxes, email, website, US Mail, faxing,
hand delivery, postering, etc.)
Read: Critique Handbook, chapters 3-5
|