For this project inspired by Audrey Flack's Marilyn, and Pat Steir's The Brueghel Series we pulled a slip of paper from a hat with the name of a painter and a portion Audrey Flack's Vanitas painting that we would be recreating in the style of our assigned painter. I was very excited when I drew Roy Lichtenstein's name because he has been one of my favorite artists since I was in middle school. Lichtenstein works using a very illustrative method of painting and printing that makes most of his pieces seem like they were cut from a comic book, which I love. To start the painting I drew out a sketch of my section of the painting using a simple grid. Then I began painting and trying my hardest to do Lichtenstein some justice. I'm fairly happy with the end result (despite that the photograph on here makes it look kind of awful), I just wish I would have had more time to do the signature dots across the painting. My painting will be put together with 8 other students’ paintings to create the entire Vanitas painting. The finished painting (that really looks much better in person).
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This assignment was actually the first one we completed in Art 107, I had just completely forgotten to post it. The transition back to school from Christmas break proved more difficult than expected. This project was inspired by David Hockney's Joiners. We first began by partnering up and heading out to go take pictures of each other in different parts of the art building. We were to take the photos using dramatic lighting and a moving subject to show the passing of time. My partner Hannah and I took our photographs in the printmaking studio which has a lot of natural lighting. This made is slightly difficult to make our created lighting all that dramatic. After getting our photographs and choosing the 40 we liked best we re-sized the images and transferred them to a photoshop file, from which we printed them. Lastly, we arranged and glued down the images onto a piece of thick paper we had drawn a grid out on earlier. The results of this project were really interesting and I enjoyed seeing the distortions of the figure in everyone's collage.
A screenshot of the beginning of our trip across camps. (final version) For this version of the Exquisite Corpse we attempted to create the figure using video clips of the body in motion. The concept was inspired by Vito Acconci's Following pieces, Janet Cardiff's Alter Bahnhof Video walk, and the surrealist movement. We were first drew a segment of the body that would be focused on in the video out of a hat provided by Mad. (I received the butt and thighs) We then made quick storyboards (pictured above) depicting the route we would be filming. After completing my storyboard I made a trial video of my route to get a better idea of what I wanted in the shot and to make sure that it would take at least 4 minutes to walk. After showing this to my partner we shot the first video, with my butt and thighs center camera. We then (after dealing with my phone battery) re-shot the route but this time with my camera playing the first recording as the main subject. This process was challenging for several different reasons and I'm not completely satisfied with the end product, but I love the concept and might decide to revisit this method of filming in the future. These video segments will be played on four monitors stacked upon each other in the gallery.
Above are the original poems I made based on the work of Yoko Ono which focus on daily actions rather than actions that would have been used for mainly artistic purposes. Though since I missed a day of class the action I used was one provided by Peter; "Write one word all over your arm in a ballpoint pen."
The still images from these animations will be used in a flip book we will be making later on in the semester. The download links to the animations are included below.
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