Sep 15 lecture

POST MODERNISM (1979)  ---> when it all went to hell
pluralism of viewpoints
shift from a dialog taking place in person (in NY or Paris) to a mediated dialog through art fairs, media, etc.

MODERNISM
shock of the new rapid progression of styles
transgressive - opposition to mainstream society (avant-garde)
rejection of the past
colonial view of non-European cultures
     IMPRESSIONISM MONET!!
       POST IMPRESSIONISM    "Art consists of inventing, not copying" -Fernand Leger
     FAUVES
     CUBISM
     FUTURISM Italy
    CONSTRUCTIONISM Russia
    EXPRESSIONISM Germany
    DE STIJL Holland

Sep 10 Lecture Summary

Creativity is...
         curiosity                            maladjusted
    Playful             sensitive       productive make an actual attempt                  
                                 original                                         flexible
organized accidents?        analytical      fluent language visual written body sound   process
         adaptable                  emotional              aware             empathetic

Perception - ability to see relevant differences, see beyond

Put whole self into work.

         "without craft, it will escape"

Blocks:       Physical                Intellectual mechanical thinking     Emotional fear of failing
                   Environmental      Expressive                                 Cultural taboo, rules: what art should be,
                                                                                                                 playfulness is for children, fear



Devise a Plan!!!!
   what language? put to other uses. adapt/modify. magnify. minify. substitute. rearrange. reverse. combine.


Inspiration!!!
  dreams. imagine. incubate. display. organize. list. dictionary. thesaurus. associate. classify. exemplify. compare. differ. manipulate. transfer. recycle.

Playful vs. Periodic top eight

These were fun, but it was a little hard to try to come up with something original...

made with dying sharpie... R.I.P. , my loyal friend....

I really could have made these a little neater, but I wanted to save my new prismacolor markers for the final drafts. Looking at them now, I realize that there was more overlapping than anything else, but it's ok. 

Periodic:

Top Left - two cropped large black squares interact by union, while a white square overlaps both of them. I get the black form in the middle with a mix of intersection and interpenetration.

Top Right - Two cropped black squares are on each side, with a white square between them. The design in the middle of the white square is a combination of overlapping, intersection, and subtraction.
Bottom Left - a black square touches the edges of the frame, a white square overlaps that, which is also overlapped by another black square, etc, etc.
Bottom Right - three black squares are detached from one another.

Playful:
Top Left - a black square has a white square subtracted from it, and is overlapped by a series of growing black squares.
Top Right -  several black squares overlap each other messily.
Bottom Left - several black squares are touching, stacked up one on top of the other.
Bottom Right - One large black square is over lapped by a form of several smaller black squares that are  united, while a small square is detached from the rest.

Cardboard Progress 2: "I am starting to dislike this project"

Title says it all.

the second piece had to be braced on the inside in several places  to keep shape

Used paper to act as hinge, but its too floppy....

... I need it to stay open, like this.

So, I have the claw, now I need to make the elbow and put it on. And I'm probably going to have to brace the claw so it stays where I need it. So much for the moveable claw theory.

Cardboard Progress; "A little harder than I expected"

Ok, maybe i would have preferred the gum-thingies.

After a LONG day of waiting for glue to dry... I have the main part of the claw pieced together! TA DAH!  ... And yes, in case you noticed, I wound up making the right claw instead of the original left one... OOPS.....

This is a bit more difficult then I had intended t to be, but at least I haven't had to trash it yet. While I managed to measure everything out to the exact measurements (hooray for good luck), still, the pieces aren't fitting together perfectly. And... there's something printed on the outside of the crab. Oops. Again. However, they are fitting together well enough to not worry too much about it.

Cardboard Nature Studies; "You want me to do WHAT."

Yay, I get the crab claw....

Initial sketches and observations

But it's ok!! With the right cutouts, nets, mathematical equations, E = M(C^2) (not really), I can do this! At least I didn't get a gum-thingie!

a minor miscalculation....

initial plan

Should be easy enough... ^_^;;

Final Dots and Critiques; "Never Again"

Final Dots

For the most part, it seems my dot compositions seemed OK with my group. It was decided I had about half and half of symmetric and asymmetric compositions, so I had that right. They did note, however, that I had many, many compositions that could be considered continuance in comparison to the other three aspects, especially proximity, which they decided I had too few of. Also, several pieces looked very similar to one another, because I had used similar sizes in each of them. Whenever I used a large dot, it was almost always the same size as a large dot in the other compositions, for example. A pattern they noticed is that I left little negative space in most of my compositions, rather than balancing negative and positive space, or leaving a majority of the area as negative space.

As for my final four, they chose three of the ones that were obvious which aspect they were supposed to depict. The Similarity, however was one that had been difficult to sort, but they liked its pattern.

They gave me suggestions for improving each of my final four. For Proximity, I should move the two middle sized dots closer together, and further apart from the others, so it would not be mistaken for similarity. For Continuance, I should make the final two dots after the large middle one curve more. For Closure, I should move all the dots closer together, and center the pattern more carefully. So that you can compare...

Final Four draft

I agreed with everything my group said, when they explained why they thought so. Thanks for the help! =)