Critique | T 9/11 | F 9/12
Last week we were introduced to the Design Process by watching videos on Creativity and Learning from Our Mistakes. We worked in groups to experience Project 1 which is an invitation to explore the Design Process & Chance and we will continue this exploration in class this week. We are also going to be introduced to the Components of Art and start discussing what a Critique is.
Due for this Class
I suggest you type your introduction on a Word Processor such as Microsoft Word so you do not loose your text.
Log in to Blackboard, go to the 2D Design course and open the Discussion Board - The link for the Discussion Board is on the left side in the navigation panel. Open the "Introducing Yourself" thread and select the "Create Thread" to write or record information about yourself, the reasons why you are taking this course. Add a picture of yourself!
http://www.coursesmart.com/IR/998418/9780495915775/4?__hdv=6.8 | Design Basics: Design Process pps 4 [Design defined] to 9 [end of Thinking About The Solution]
After reading Design Basic and watching the videos on Creativity post to Blackboard how you see your creative process and what are the steps you use to explore new ideas. Post also what you can do to improve your creative thing skills.
The Elusive Genious
Tales of Creativity & Play
Unlocking Creativity
Thinking outside the box requires a box
Trial, Error and the God Complex
Trial, Error and the God Complex
I suggest you type your response on a Word Processor such as Microsoft Word so you do not loose your text.
After reading Design Basics and watching the videos on Creativity post to Blackboard how you see your creative process and what are the steps you use to explore new ideas. Post also what you can do to improve your creative thinking skills. Use your creativity on this posting ;-)
Your group needs to be ready at the beginning of Week 2 to show Project 1 | Design Process & Chance Practice 1 and implement Practice 2 with the rest of the class. Don't forget the visual documentation!
In Class
Attendance
Blackboard Introductions
Week 1 Review: The Creative Process, Learning from Mistakes and the Surrealist Games
Blackboard Posts on Creativity
Project 1 | Design Process & Chance Practice 1 finals and documentation.
Project 1 | Design Process & Chance
Groups Implement Practice 2 with the rest of the class
What is a Critique?
1. In groups to be defined in class, find or create a definition for what you think a Critique is:
2. Your group will be assigned one of the artists' below. Choose one artwork from your assigned artist and together write a short Critique about the artwork.
3. Present the group critique in class.
Artists:
1. Piet Mondrian (after 1912)
2. Mark Rothko (Classic Paintings & Late Works)
3. Josef Albers
4. Robert Motherwell (after 1949)
5. Franz Kline
6. Willem de Kooning (late 1940's early 1950′s)
7. Pablo Picasso (paintings 1909 and after)
8. Wassily Kandinsky (paintings 1912 and after)
At Home
Do you know how to:
. Scan Images and save them in the proper directory?
. Photograph Artwork and transfer the digital file to a computer directory?
. Use Photoshop to Crop, Resize, Resample, Edit an image file?
. Create and implement a Wordpress site?
If you do, you can earn Extra Credit by posting Tutorials and/or Developing Tutorials to share with your colleagues next classes.
You can even lead the Tutorial in class!
Go to Blackboard and under "Tutorial Extra Credit" put in numeric order the topics you feel VERY confident about it.
In the meantime, start writing or choose online videos that you will use to present to the students.
. Success Strategies in Art & Design - Unit 4 | Critiques: Giving and Getting Input
After reading "Critiques: Giving and Getting Input", "Intelligent Seeing" [pages 25-26], watching the video on Critique and going through the Critique Worksheet go to Blackboard/Discussion Board. Under the "Critique Response" answer the Critique Worksheet for a chosen artist, one chosen artwork.
Artists:
1. Piet Mondrian (after 1912)
2. Mark Rothko (Classic Paintings & Late Works)
3. Josef Albers
4. Robert Motherwell (after 1949)
5. Franz Kline
6. Willem de Kooning (late 1940's early 1950′s)
7. Pablo Picasso (paintings 1909 and after)
8. Wassily Kandinsky (paintings 1912 and after)
Project 2 | Assignment 1 | Abstracting
Read the assignment and create the the thumbnails.
Don't worry about right or wrong. Just do your best based on what you understand! It will be fun to see how each of you interpret the assignment ;-)
On your sketchbook or notebook handwrite the definitions for the following words:
Subject Matter, Content, Form, Elements of Design, Degrees of Representation, Naturalism, Realism, Semi-abstraction, Abstraction, Representational, Non-representational, Nonobjective.
You can find some of the definitions under the link Resources.