Today we will be exploring how to simplify complex ideas & narratives into something a simple as a pictogram. A pictogram can be defined as an icon or image that describes or represents something. Fun Fact: The game Portal uses pictograms as part of the game to explain instructions on how to play & to create the atmosphere of an office or a testing facility.
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Plastic Bag by Ramin Bahrani, 2009, featuring Werner Herzog Bureau Baggerman ' My goal was to alter plastic shopping bags in a way that would extend the lifecycle of the material, to improve its negative qualities and preserve its positive qualities. ' -Michelle Baggerman With animation and film a lot can be said with very little. Consider how different situations, emotions, relationships, opinions, etc. can be communicated through the use of shape, color, & movement. American Desert (For Chuck Jones) by Mungo Thomson, 2002 ' Thomson wishes to focus attention on “the role of the desert in the cultural imagination as a sort of pure and indomitable wasteland beyond civilization.” Jones’s imagery captures this sense of myth-making in panoramas that are not modeled on an actual place. Rather, the images are a romantic composite of landscapes in Arizona, California, and Utah.' Consider the setting of your animation as well as the characters & situation. What are your thoughts & opinion about environmentalism?
Growing up in California, being conscientious about how I interacted with the environment was something I learned at a young age. At my house we always made sure to recycle and compost materials that could be disposed of as such and during the summer we usually had a garden. As kids we also were encouraged to spend lots of time outside and my family enjoyed going on camping trips and hikes around our neighborhood. Also because California has been in a drought for the majority of the past 20 years we were also taught about the importance of conserving water and recently my family redid the front yard to have more plants that need less water and that are native to California. I have made an effort to keep up some of these habits. I'm an active recycler despite the challenge of finding a place to recycle here in Utah. I am trying to be better about buying things locally and to buy produce in season. I know I'm not always the best at keeping these habits up, but they are very important to me and I do consider myself to be at least environmentally conscious and I'm striving to be better about this. B I G P R O J E C T : Create a performance piece in which you spend at least 10 hours elevating one facet of yourself. This can be either a physical facet or internal facet. Use this project as a means to get to know yourself better, your goal is to have a cathartic experience. You will need to turn in video documentation of your final project that is at least 3 minutes long. My prototype is best viewed without sound. For my mandala I decided to digitally glitch a scanned version of my original mandala. When glitching the mandala I was thinking about the concept of regeneration and DNA so I went into the code of the scanned image and replaced all the G's for C's and all the A's for T's. Each of these letters represent chemicals that make up the DNA of humans. Then I pulled the image into photoshop to further manipulate it and the image continued to glitch so I captured the results with a screenshot. Original Digitally Manipulated In Photoshop
What is this author trying to say about this topic?
This author is making the point that in creating contemporary art there is still value in looking at more classical forms of art making. However, the difference is that instead of just approaching classical ways of making art, such as figure drawing, as a pure mode of creating to recontextualize this form of art making in away that addresses the way artists are creating work today. So students can learn to develop more traditional skills, but also see how a medium such as figure drawing can change the way they view themselves, they view people in advertising, the way they view their peers, etc. Or in other words showing the power of a medium when used in a current context. What is your experience with drawing the human figure both in and out of school? I personally have very little experience drawing the human form in a classroom context. I took a drawing class where we drew from a plate bust of a human form and also had to do self portraits, but that is a severely limited scope without much depth. Out of a classroom setting I mostly experimented with drawing people, but they were usually very cartoonish and had exaggerated proportions and body types. There were a few times when I would try to consider how a body would be positioned and then I would try to create that pose with my own body and then try to think about how I would draw it while considering the pose I was in. How would you approach this topic? For me I would address figure drawing as another way of seeing something. Realizing that while you are drawing it becomes the objectification of a personas you look at the shapes in a person's body and try to match what you are seeing on paper. As well as noticing the ways you view the various kinds of people you interact with both personally and through removed media such as television, magazines, internet searches, etc. For the final project for my curriculum about collage, students were asked to create a collage were they imagine what art piece would be created if one of the artist we have been studying in this unit (collage and otherwise) meet their favorite writers (author, poet, songwriter, screenplay writer, tweeter, fortune cookie writer, etc.) and the two created a collaged piece of artwork together. Students were also asked to make careful consideration about style and color choices as well as including some form of text with the piece.
While I didn't originally think about requirements as far as size, I would probably encourage my students to each create either a series of collages or to take a single collage and then paint it on a larger scale. For the Mandala to destroy I decided to make a collage where I didn't glue anything down and then I wanted to burn it. However the paper I was using wasn't very flammable so it didn't burn as well as I wanted it to. During our third reading I was intrigued by this quote,
"The idea of enabling constraints opposes the Romantic notion that the creative process must be wholly free from all restrictions. On the contrary, more recent research shows that, absent constraining rules, there is no context for creative discourse or means of expression." (Graham; Tibetan Mandalas, Curriculum Sketches, and the Spiritual Dimensions of Art Education) How do you stay in touch with the spiritual side of things? For me, Spirituality is about awareness of yourself and other. So trying to take time to be present rather then worrying about the future or being distracted. This can be as simple as unplugging my self from a device to just think for a moment or setting aside time to do something fun and focusing on that thing. Another thing that helps me connect with the spiritual, is prayer. Just taking some time to reflect about my circumstances and talk to someone who, I believe, has experienced everything I have and knows what will make me happy helps me stay present and recognize that even though things might feel rough it will all work out in the end. |
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