Description

Create a design of your choice that deals with the principle of unity. This is a get-to-know-you assignment in the sense that it’s a chance for you to present your influences, sources, and individual stylistic directions in your work. It’s also an opportunity to integrate information you have encountered in your reading concerning unity.

Source materials

Introduction, Chapter 1 and 2. We will critique these next class. Craft is going to be an important component.

Materials

Open. If you are using collage or appropriated imagery, be able to discuss copyright issues, and incorporate the images in such a way as the authorship is more about your artwork than the original.

Format

analog/hand-drawn: 11 x 14" or small2aer. Scanned and Saved for Web as a jpg or gif 600 x 800

digital: 600 x 800 72 dpi RGB. Saved for Web as a jpg or gif.

Scan/format tips

1. scan at 150 dpi
2. open the image in photoshop
3. command Image/image size
4. uncheck the resample box
5. change the dpi to 72
6. recheck the resample box
7. change the pixel dimensions - making sure constrain proportions box is checked.
8. save for web as a jpg or gif. check quality settings
   

Summary

• read the text
• make a design dealing with unity and style
• scan it if it is a drawing, illustration, or collage
• bring your digitized projects in on a zip, cd, usb device, web page, or on the transfer server for critique next tues.
  
  

Artists to look at: Frida Kahlo. Matisse. Mondrian. Picasso (he changed his style many times during his career), Rothko, Kruger.

Art history link

Contemporary artists often change styles, or adapt style, formula, materials to a particular venue. See Ann Hamilton who does large-scale installation. Manny Farber changed his style from large-scale minimal abstraction to a unique, fly-eye still life.

designboom.com/eng/

Student gallery

Erin Megill

Shannon Winter

Lizette Brambila

Nicole Swimley

Erin Taylor